Germany's LUCIFUGE will release their seventh full-length album, Under Wheels of Sacrilege, on January 29, 2027 via Dying Victims Productions on CD and vinyl. The title track premiered today on the website of German magazine Deaf Forever.
Formed in 2016 as the project of mainman Equinox, LUCIFUGE spent three albums honing a raw blend of blackened speed metal and punk. With 2021's fourth record Infernal Power, Equinox expanded the project into a full band, and that album, the group's first for Dying Victims, sharpened their sound without sanding off the dirt. Monoliths of Wrath (2023) then pushed LUCIFUGE toward fast, classic '80s thrash in the vein of SODOM, KREATOR, EXODUS and SLAYER, and the following year's Hexensabbat completed what the label calls the band's "second era".
According to the label, Under Wheels of Sacrilege keeps the tempos high but balances the overdrive with clean guitar breaks, classic heavy metal beats and twin-guitar work in the spirit of JUDAS PRIEST and THIN LIZZY, while SODOM, early BATHORY and SLAYER remain core influences. Equinox's vocals sit further up in the mix, the solos range wider, and the production is described as polished but spacious, almost vintage 1986. Dying Victims sums up the result as epic "biker metal" and calls it the band's finest record yet.
Under Wheels of Sacrilege tracklist:
- Under Wheels of Sacrilege
- Black Wings of Boundless Chaos
- The Dust of Yesterday
- Consumed by Time and Rust
- Cathedral of The Void
- Sovereignty of the Mortal Flesh
- Returning to the Primal Flame
- The Cold Embrace of Death
- God Killing Machine
- The Stench of Misery
- An Unholy Oath
- Leave No Kingdom