The New Orleans natives made their long-awaited return last year with a string of reunion shows and festival appearances, and now are launching a full-on comeback with the impending release of ‘Mourn The Southern Skies.’
The album was recorded by Duane Simoneaux at OCD Recording and working with producer Jens Bogren (Amon Amarth, Opeth, Sepultura) at Fascination Street Studios in Sweden for mixing and mastering. Exhorder is armed with more fury and vigor than bands half their age, concocting an intoxicating amalgam of old school thrashers and groovers blended with a modern, mature approach.
From the opening of the first track of ‘Mourn The Southern Skies’, listeners are reminded immediately just what Exhorder is exactly through the spitting rage ‘My Time’ forces upon their ears. It is evident that the anger remains prevalent, with perhaps a different point of view that younger men could not possibly have understood on earlier albums.
Exhorder’s founding guitarist Vinnie La Bella says of their resurgence,
