Press Release: Death The Leveller unveil debut EP artwork and track listing!



​Just received an exciting press release from Overdrive: Irish doom supergroup Death The Leveller have unveiled the cover artwork and tracklist for their highly-anticipated debut EP, due for release on June 12th.

Drawing experience from their work in legendary Irish outfits such as Mael Mórdha and Cursed Earth, Death The Leveller are already creating a stir. The track listing for 'Death The Leveller' EP is as follows:

1. A Call To Men of Noble Blood (available now on Bandcamp!)
2. Gone Forever
3. The Day Before The Night of Broken Glass
4. How to Break Pernicious Spells

The cover art is by French artist and graphic designer Anais Chareyre, whose work has featured on the TV series Penny Dreadful. In a recent interview with Overdrive, drummer Shane Cahill commented about the cover art:

"The concept behind this piece is based on the Egyptian book of the dead, where the heart of the deceased is weighed against a feather, to decide if they had lived a just life. If it was lighter than the feather they would proceed to paradise, if heavy with the ill deeds of life and the heart weighed heavier than the feather, they were cast to the underworld for eternity.....".

'A Call to Men of  Noble Blood' is an excellent epic doom track, so if it's representative of the rest of the release we're in for a treat. Check out Overdrive's exclusive interview with bassist Dave Murphy on this link, and be sure to catch Death the Leveller alongside Cruachan and Selene in the Voodoo Lounge, Dublin on July 15th!

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