The Central Valley’s youngest tech death band, The Wrath of Vesuvius just released the artwork and track-listing yesterday for their next album, Portals Through Ophiuchus. Besides getting recently signed to Abal Records and playing a show with Whitechapel the other day, I would say that isn’t too bad for a band that looks like it just grew its pubes out last week (just kidding guys, besides, pubes are overrated anyways).

There is no release date for the album yet, but here’s how the track-listing goes:

Portals Through Ophiuchus

1. Manipulative Delusion: Anatomy of A Machine
2. The Final Reich: Battle of Abolishment
3. Doomed To Ignominy: The Serpent Bearer
4. Destroyer: Portals Through Ophiuchus
5. Eye of The Phoenix
6. Aftermath: Apocalypse Revealed
7. A World In Peril
8. Descendants of The Fallen Star

On a side note, is it me or is there a growing trend for modern tech death bands to use similar style logos and be affiliated somehow with ancient Roman Culture? Like, if I see a band called The Taintopolis of Zeus with a logo like this:

Then I can pretty much understand what genre the band is going to sound like. (Or was Zeus Greek? I can never get these things straight.) Anyways, these guys are pretty good…so they should hurry up and release the album already.

-DS