The much anticipated follow-up to the Aussie deathcore outfit's 2012 sophomore outing
Hate, 2015's
Holy War is
Thy Art Is Murder's first studio long-player to be released via
Nuclear Blast. Produced by
Will Putney (
the Acacia Strain,
Suicide Silence,
For Today,
the Amity Affliction),
Holy War eschews many of the more fantasy-driven elements of prior offerings in favor of a more global issue-minded approach. Punishing and relentless in the vein of groups like
Behemoth and
Converge, the band describes the album as "our war on racism, homophobia, child abuse, animal cruelty, and all evil born of religious immunity, indoctrination, and ignorance." ~ James Christopher Monger