Swedish death/doom metal band Runemagick return with new album »Cycle Of The Dying Sun (Dawn Of Ashen Realms)«; first single streaming now!
Swedish death/doom metal band Runemagick has announced their new album, »Cycle Of The Dying Sun (Dawn Of Ashen Realms)«, which wil be released on October 24th, 2025 via Hammerheart Records.
Watch a lyric video for the first single »Old Bones« feat. Lussidotter on guest vocals!
Tracklist:
01. Wyrd Unwoven
02. Old Bones 06:51
03. The Hollow Chant Of The Seer
04. The Runestones Lament
05. Womb Of The Veiled Sun
06. Ashen Realms
07. Spires Of The Drowned Horizon
08. Embers Of The Unwritten Dawn – Part 1
09. Embers Of The Unwritten Dawn – Part 2
Courtesy of Hammerheart Records:
Relentless death/doom metal outfit Runemagick return with the brand new single »Old Bones«, taken from the upcoming album »Cycle Of The Dying Sun (Dawn Of Ashen Realms)«. The new offering is due on 31st October, 2025 via Hammerheart Records. A crushing descent into dust, ruin and the old ways!
Pre-order HERE.
The first single »Old Bones« is streaming on all digital platforms now, Nicklas Rudolfsson comments:
“»Old Bones« is the first glimpse into »Cycle Of The Dying Sun (Dawn Of Ashen Realms)«; a song that treads the path of the nameless, where echoes of the past linger beneath layers of ash and time. As the second track of the album, it carves deep into the essence of what lies ahead: a journey through fading embers and veiled realms. No steps return, no echoes call, through shadowed mist, through endless fall. The cycle has begun, and the bones still speak.
Toward the end of the track, guest vocalist Lussidotter appears with a haunting melodic passage – a final breath woven into the shadows.”
»Cycle Of The Dying Sun (Dawn Of Ashen Realms)« marks a new era for the Runemagick entity. Entirely composed and performed by Nicklas Rudolfsson, vocals, guitars, bass, synthesizers, and drums, the album channels the stripped down, immersive, and slow-burning spirit of early Runemagick while also introducing new sonic shades and meditative depth. A few carefully chosen guests were invited to contribute additional dimensions, further expanding the album’s ceremonial atmosphere.
Six core compositions form the foundation across all formats. The CD and digital editions go even deeper, offering four extended tracks that enrich the journey with further layers of decay, resonance, and otherworldly drift.
This album represents both a new era and a new chapter, while also serving as a natural continuation of the path carved on »Beyond The Cenotaph of Mankind«, a descent beyond that threshold, into deeper domains of life, death, and the unknown beyond.
Recorded during the winter of 2024/2025 at Sonic Train Studios, Varberg, Sweden, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Andy La Rocque, and at Necrotic Noise Studio, Ljungskile, Sweden.
• Entirely composed and performed by Nicklas Rudolfsson (The Funeral Orchestra, Unformulas, ex-Sacramentum)
• Mixed and mastered by Andy La Rocque (King Diamond, Death) at Sonic Train Studios
• CD and digital editions include exclusive extended material
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