Devil Master share the song Death Anthem, a tribute to hardcore band G.I.S.M.

Devil Master have shared "Death Anthem," a song and video the band calls a "homage eulogy" to Japanese hardcore pioneers G.I.S.M., Metal Injection reported on August 5. The track comes from the band's upcoming album, Bloody Dreams, due September 4 on Relapse Records and tracked in the release calendar.

"Lyrically you can hear our calls to Satan, Dionysus and Kali respectively," said Devil Master's Darkest Prince of the new single. "Fangs to Eva and crew for the video." Bloody Dreams was mastered by Arthur Rizk and engineered by Davis M. Shubs and Grammy-nominated engineer Eric Bogacz, with guest appearances from Sigh's Mirai Kawashima, Power Trip drummer Chris Ulsh, and Ur Emdr Oervn of Arkha Sva.

Darkest Prince described the album's sound as a deliberate collision of histories. "Our psychedelic blend of black metal and punk is defiant," they said, tracing the word "gothic" from barbarian tribes to cathedral architecture to the band's own genre-crossing metal. They also cited an unlikely set of non-metal influences behind the record: Greek and Andean folk music and cumbia, alongside a long-running love of the poet W.B. Yeats.

"I still listen to a lot of G.I.S.M., Bathory, and Vlad Tepes... but that's about as metal as I get," Darkest Prince said, describing folk music as "archetypal, primal" and something that "taps into something across cultures."

Devil Master will tour Europe this September in support of Sigh, playing a run of dates across Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands and France, with headlining shows of their own in Budapest and Cologne.