Denver black metal outfit, WAYFARER announce a new full length album titled, A Romance With Violence, due for release worldwide on October 16, 2020 via Profound Lore Records.

A Romance With Violence features seven harrowing and triumphant anthems of the high plains and paints a poignant exploration of heroes and killers, the setting sun of a romantic era, and the shadow it has cast on the world we live in today. With the release of A Romance With Violence, the band fully manifests a sound that is uniquely theirs, and is unlike anything before it.

Recorded in the midst of the pandemic by Pete DeBoer (Blood Incantation, Dreadnought), A Romance With Violence was mixed by the inimitable Colin Marston (Krallice, Gorguts), and Mastered by V. Santura (Triptykon, Dark Fortress). The album features guest appearances from Kelly Schilling (Dreadnought Bleakheart), Anthony Limon (Falcon's Eye), and Colin Marston (Krallice, Gorguts).

Following the albums release, WAYFARER will soon be seen bringing their shattered view of the American West to stages across the world.

WAYFARER have released a track from the album titled, "The Iron Horse (Gallows Frontier, Act II)". About the track, guitarist & vocalist Shane McCarthy comments, "This one is one of the most to-the-point, ripper tracks. While there are several textures explored throughout the record, this one is kind of dead-set. Against the ruthless silver-screen landscape the album projects, this one is total "death rides west" - it's the pale horse clad in the iron of man's invention, on the trail of expansionism."

Listen to "The Iron Horse (Gallows Frontier, Act II)" HERE or below.

Pre-order is available NOW via Profound Lore Records. LP, CD, and digital offerings available.

Album details, track listing, and album art can be found below.

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WAYFARER
A Romance With Violence
Profound Lore Records
October 16, 2020

WAYFARER is black metal of the American West. A cavalcade of fury, melancholia, and dust-laden storytelling; the band is informed by the fierce and adventurous spectrums of heavy music, along with the stark Americana of the "Denver Sound" artists that carved the identity of their home.

In A Romance With Violence, their most fully realized effort to date, WAYFARER presents a searing silver-screen requiem for the myth of the West. This new work sees them at their most intense and triumphant, as well as at their most pensive. Bold, rhythmic and riff laden, the band's pointed expedition across the frontiers of black and extreme metal are tinged with the grit and genuine air of artists like Sixteen Horsepower and Jay Munly, and the majestic heights of the Ennio Morricone/Sergio Leone collaborations. "Through the music, the album aims to tell stories - if not always by words but by feel," explains guitarist/vocalist Shane McCarthy. "It uses a cast of tropes like the a mysterious rider destined to die by the same way he lives, "The Iron Horse" of the transcontinental railroad that serves as a vehicle for the expansion of the unforgiving new world, the dreams of men headed west to pursue the "American dream," a pseudo-elegant dance of the gunfighters of old - and culminates it all onto a stage that comes crashing down into existential chaos."

Through seven harrowing and triumphant anthems of the high plains, the album paints a poignant exploration of heroes and killers, the setting sun of a romantic era, and the shadow it has cast on the world we live in today.

Recorded in the midst of the pandemic by Pete DeBoer (Blood Incantation, Dreadnought), A Romance With Violence was mixed by the inimitable Colin Marston (Krallice, Gorguts), and Mastered by V. Santura (Triptykon, Dark Fortress). The album will see a worldwide release on October 16, 2020, on CD/LP/Digital on October 16, 2020 by Profound Lore Records.

WAYFARER, from Colorado's "Queen City of the Plains", has origins beginning around 2012. Guitarist/vocalist Shane McCarthy formed the band with drummer Isaac Faulk, bassist/vocalist James Hansen, and original guitarist Tanner Rezabek. They would release 2014's "Children of the Iron Age" and 2016's "Old Souls" via Prosthetic Records, after which they would replace the departed Rezabek with longtime collaborator Joe Strong-Truscelli as full-time guitarist. Partnering with Profound Lore Records in 2017, the band released "World's Blood" in 2018 on the label, ushering in the current chapter and paving the way for this new release.

The last few years have seen the band take their visceral live show across the US, Canada, Mexico and Europe, touring alongside artists such as Inter Arma, Saor, Krallice, Primitive Man, Falls of Rauros, Dark Buddha Rising, Thantifaxath and others. Taking the stage around Roadburn, Fire In The Mountains, and Northwest & Austin Terrorfests, WAYFARER have made a name for themselves as a live act, with the intensity of their performance leaving an impression among its audiences.

With the release of A Romance With Violence, the band fully manifests a sound that is uniquely theirs, and is unlike anything before it. Following its release, they will soon be seen bringing their shattered view of the American West to stages across the world.

Track listing:
1. The Curtain Pulls Back
2. The Crimson Rider (Gallows Frontier, Act I)
3. The Iron Horse (Gallows Frontier, Act II)
4. Fire & Gold
5. Masquerade Of The Gunslingers
6. Intermission
7. Vaudeville

Album details:
Recorded at World Famous Studios, in Lakewood, Colorado by Pete DeBoer (Blood Incantation, Spectral Voice, Bleakheart) in June 2020.
Mixed by Colin Marston (Krallice, Gorguts) at the Thousand Caves in Woodhaven, New York in July 2020.
Mastered by V. Santura (Tryptikon, Ruins of Beverast) at Woodshed Studio in Landshut, Germany in July 2020.

Album cover photograph from "Temporary and Permanent Bridges and Citadel rock, Green River, Wyoming" by Andrew Joseph Russell, 1868. Cover image edited by Shane McCarthy, with additional illustration by Adam Gersh.

Album guests:
Kelly Schilling (Dreadnought Bleakheart) - Guest vocals on "Vaudeville"
Anthony Limon (Falcon's Eye) - Violas on "The Curtain Pulls Back
Colin Marston (Krallice, Gorguts, etc) - Synthesizers on "The Crimson Rider" and "Masquerade of the Gunslingers"

WAYFARER is:
Isaac Faulk - Drums
James Hansen - Bass, Vocals
Shane McCarthy - Guitars, Vocals
Joey Truscelli - Guitars

Promotional photo by Elizabeth Marsh.

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