Progressive Heavy Metallers HIGH COUNCIL Deliver the Song “Routed in the Wood (By Eldlings and Brackenguard)” Off Upcoming Album “Cruel And Unusual”!

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Progressive Heavy Metallers HIGH COUNCIL Deliver the Song “Routed in the Wood (By Eldlings and Brackenguard)” Off Upcoming Album “Cruel And Unusual”! — High Council photo by Radhi Fernández

US-based progressive heavy metal outfit HIGH COUNCIL has shared a new track called “Routed in the Wood (By Eldlings and Brackenguard),” taken from the band’s forthcoming album “Cruel And Unusual,” whose release date is set on April 11th.

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“Cruel And Unusual,” band’s second full-length album and seventh release overall, features eight tracks of glorious epic metal and represents the culmination of years the band has spent honing both its performance and songwriting skills. This collection of stone-cold bangers ferries the listener between moods and dynamics like the proverbial boatman across the River Styx, visiting straight-ahead rockers like title-track and “To From Whence”, dynamic epics like “Routed in the Wood (By Eldlings and Brackenguard)” and “Plaguebringer 2025,” and the pits of bleakest despair on the powerful yet despondent “Jackal”. Though honed in the fires of traditional heavy metal, the new effort also betrays hints of progressive metal, progressive rock, classically-influenced guitar work, and even notes of alternative rock, while throughout, guitarist/vocalists Bob Saunders and Steve Donahue display trademark vocal and guitar harmonies that would bring even the most distant and uncaring pantheon of pagan deities to collective elation. From the soaring harmonies of opener “Cruel and Unusual” to the ecstatic synth leads of the closing instrumental, “Wildspace,” the album is destined to unite legions of metal maniacs under its banner forevermore.

All songs written by High Council, except where as follows:

Liberator is written by High Council and Chris Haring, and contains a lyrical excerpt from The Liberator, originally published January 1, 1831 by William Lloyd Garrison

Additional Guitar Leads on “Plaguebringer 2025” written and performed by Dino DiDomenico

Produced by Dino DiDomenico for Double D Productions

Engineered, mixed and mastered by Eric McNelis and The Gradwell House, Haddon Heights NJ

Album artwork by Apocalyptic Nuke / Medi

Graphic Design by James Viola

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Dedicated to the memory of our brother-in-arms, Charles Carrado III