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Spiritworld Announce Third Album 'Helldorado', Share Opening Track Abilene Grime

Friday, 10 January 2025 Written by Jon Stickler

Photo: Jasmine Garcia

Spiritworld have laid out plans for their third album.

’Helldorado’ will arrive on March 21 via Century Media Records, following up 2022’s ’Deathwestern’ and 2021’s ’Pagan Rhythms’. It was recorded with producer Sam Pura at his Panda Studios in Fremont, California.

Along with the news, the Las Vegas crossover thrash outfit have shared a new song, Abilene Grime, which leans into the band’s horror-Western roots with catchy, hard riffs and mosh-inducing grooves. Head below to view its gory video, directed by Todd Hailstone and starring both Voki Kalfayan and Hazel Honeysuckle. Bandleader and founder Stu Folsom said:

"When I wrote the demo for Abilene Grime, it felt like the album really found its identity and materialized out of the ether. It twangs, it bangs and it has a sick video, directed by our dear friend Todd Hailstone, which we filmed in Las Vegas a few weeks ago. Enjoy, everybody!"

Last month, the band shared the single Western Stars & The Apocalypse, which also appears on the album, alongside collaborations with an impressive cast of guests, including Sgah’gahsowáh of Blackbraid, Zach Blair of Rise Against, and Frederic Leclercq of Kreator. 

"This record, more so than the last two, I think you hear way more fearlessness and confidence in the choices," Folsom added. "Things that were showing up as interludes have manifested into fully fleshed out pieces. At its heart, Helldorado is a punishing, unrelenting masterclass in crossover and hardcore thrash. But in a scene where every riff has been played before and every great band has thirty contemporary acolytes mining their catalog and doing worship albums, there is something in the strangeness of ’Helldorado’ that makes it endearing.

"Maybe it is a risk to incorporate things that will be pretty far out there for the casual punk or metalhead, but having the opportunity to make a record comes with a responsibility to me. I dreamed of making records for so long. Way before I could play guitar or do any of the practical things you need to be able to do.

"I take it very seriously to follow my gut and let my style hang out on these records. I only want to do things in life that I am all in on. If that makes me an outcast or even more fringe than your average underground music act then that’s okay. The stench of being genuine is beautiful." 

Spiritworld’s first two albums were companion pieces to Folsom’s book Godlessness, with ’Helldorado’ offering fans a taster of what’s to come next. Folsom explained:

"Godlessness leaves off in a cliffhanger where all the surviving characters have managed to arrive at a villa in Mexico near where a rumored gateway to hell is said to exist. ’Helldorado’ is the first glimpse that fans will get into some of what is unfolding in the next novel that I am working on, that tells the story of what happens with these characters and the gates of hell."

’Helldorado’ tracklist:

1. Abilene Grime
2. No Vacancy In Heaven
3. Western Stars & The Apocalypse
4. Bird Song Of Death
5. Prayer Lips
6. Waiting On The Reaper
7. Oblivion [feat. Sgah’gahsowáh and Zach Blair]
8. Cleansing
9. Stigmata Scars [feat. Frederic Leclercq]
10. ANNIHILISM

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