UK doom metal band Warrior Pope to release their fourth full-length album »A Morbid Parody Of Justice« in digital format this May!

Bristol, UK based doom metal band Warrior Pope is gearing up to release their fourth full-length album, »A Morbid Parody Of Justice«, which will see the light in May 2025.

Tracklist:
01. Pornocratia
02. Despoiling a Cloisters
03. Twenty-Four Popes Later
04. Bishop’s Take
05. Condemnations Of Formosus
06. Experience Severing
07. Strangled Legacy
08. Rotten Sun
09. The Method

Warrior Pope has been around for a fair while now, in various incarnations built around Oli, a bass, and a bunch of vintage valve amps. Solidified into a doom band format with the addition of Katya on drums. Three proper albums out and some lives/collabs. Mostly presented as doom, but plenty of black, post and stoner metal going on, always liked mixing it up some.

Photo by James Fenwick

The new album »A Morbid Parody Of Justice« is due out at the end of May on Bandcamp, and streaming will follow at a later date.

It’s a history of the Cadaver Synod told in metal. Written and honed gigging 2023, recorded over 3 days in the live room of our practice space in 2024, then mixed very slowly over the rest of the year. This album is the result of post pandemic lockdown reconstruction, new members, wikipedia rabbithole theme, and a buncha miserable riffs from sitting on the sofa with an acoustic bass and fuck all to do. Professor Mike Bishop of Kepone and GWAR kindly contributed some spoken word which is incredibly exciting.

This album features Jack Andrews on guitar, also of Death By Gimp, and David Burke, who is doing a PHD in heavy metal studies, and is also in Absent Signifier, and a frequent collaborator with improv band Permit Me These Small Miseries. Katya has been playing cymbals with a double bass bow during this gig/album cycle and people have been very excited about it.

The previous album »Mellified Man« available now on all the streaming platforms.

Credits:
Professor Michael Bishop: Spoken word on »Bishop’s Take« and »Condemnations Of Formosus«
Mark Roscow: Engineering, mixing, production
Warrior Pope: Production
Joe Dunlop, Henry Durand: Cameras
Normal Gergely: Cover art

Lineup:
Oli Foxen – Bass
Katya – Drums, Bowed Cymbal
Jack Andrews – Guitar, Noise
David Burke – Vocals, Trombone

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well