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The kings of US underground Power Metal have finally returned! It has been 10 long years since the last STEEL PROPHET release (and the only one in their discography that I didn’t care for, the aptly titled “Beware”) and with Rick Mythiasin back at lead vocals where he belongs, long-time fans such as myself will be very pleased with “Omniscient”. This new release is a conceptual, science fiction themed album written by the talented Steve Kachinsky Blackmoor which is something the band is pretty much known for.
 

New Zealand’s The Temple, an aural entity comprised of P.K. (guitars, bass, vocals) and J.W. (drums, lyrics), play viscerally morphing and shape-shifting death / black metal of an esoteric nature. Their self-titled debut album is an impenetrable sonic monolith that encompasses six immense tracks of tectonic shifting, inharmonious, honed and focused metal of crushing weight, searing ambience and immense magnitude. With the sprawling audial tapestry The Temple have laid out with their debut, the conveyance of this vision is one reflected through death worship and an invocation of plague, war, misery, and the cosmic apocalypse channeled through the spirit of misanthropic Gnosticism.

• Debut album by New Zealand-based death / black metal band 
• For fans of Ulcerate, Blut Aus Nord, Deathspell Omega, Mgla, and Watain