WINDS OF PLAGUE: New Song Posted Online

Los Angeles-based metallers WINDS OF PLAGUE will release their new album, "The Great Stone War", on August 11 in the U.S. and August 24 in Europe via Century Media Records. A track from the CD, "Soldiers Of Doomsday", is now available for streaming on the band's Myspace page.

Commented vocalist Johnny Plague: "I decided as a challenge to myself to write this new album as a story. I have always been a fan of concept albums as I feel it adds an overall depth to an album. Bands like BLIND GUARDIAN and DIMMU BORGIR have been huge influences on me. Their albums always seem to have this narrative-based feel to them. With this idea and I hope to achieve the same affect on others as their albums had on me.

"The idea of 'The Great Stone War' is that civilization as a whole will digress and in time inevitably end with one final battle. This battle will not be fought with technology but with stone. Over the course of eleven tracks, the listener hears about a journey foreseen through the eyes of a heathen in a religious world apocalypse. Even in the world's darkest times, you always have to take a step back and see life for what it is and not lose sight of what is most important."

The sextet kicked off a massive worldwide touring campaign for "The Great Stone War" in early June by taking part in the Summer Slaughter touring package, also featuring SUFFOCATION, NECROPHAGIST and DYING FETUS, among a slew of others. They will follow this up with a lengthy North American run with HATEBREED and CHIMAIRA.

(via Blabbermouth)