Germany’s Dark Fortress are gearing up for their new album Spectres from the Old World, which will be released on February 28th via Century Media Records. The follow-up to 2014’s Venereal Dawn promises to be more aggressive than their prior efforts. Their overall eighth full-length effort was recorded, engineered, mixed, and mastered by V. Santura at Woodshed Studios. Today (14th), the melodic black metal outfit has unveiled the new song “The Spider in the Web.” 

Guitarist V. Santura comments: 

“Our third single, ‘The Spider in the Web’, is probably the most straightforward and “simple” song on ‘Spectres from the Old World’, but it comes with a twist: The mellow midsection adds another facet to the pallet and the gloomy ending part opens the door to another universe which will be carried on by the next song on the album.”

Vocalist Morean adds:

“The inspiration for this lyric came from fairly recent images from a simulation of the distribution of galaxies and dark matter in the universe – a simulated ‘photo of the universe’, so to speak. On these images, one can clearly see how all matter in the cosmos aligns itself in strands of truly astronomical proportions; the same entropic mechanisms that create clumps in your powdered mashed potatoes serve as architects on the grandest possible scale.Since this structure is contained within spacetime’s intangible fabric itself, the mind that reincarnated into it becomes the silent, hidden observer of its creation, watching a universe taking shape as a consequence of his seemingly insubstantial, microscopically wobbling oscillations. Thus, he contains the totality of everything within his bizarre 11-dimensional existence; he is ‘the spider in the web’ of everything.”

He continues:

“Together with the rest of the human race, the protagonist reincarnated as a disembodied creature of pure light in ‘On Fever’s Wings’, the last song of ‘Venereal Dawn’. The new album attempts to draw a picture of such a mind’s perspective on life – reincarnating as pure, massless energy. The narrator has become the fabric of the universe itself. This is where heavy physics and string theory come in.”

Listen to the song below and pre-order the album here: