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SATAN Release Fifth Studio Album ‘Cruel Magic’
September 7th, 2018

Newcastle, England-based heavy metal group Satan issued fifth full-length studio album Cruel Magic on September 7th, 2018 through Metal Blade Records.

The outing can be streamed in its entirety via YouTube below.

Cruel Magic was tracked at First Avenue Studio in Newcastle, with engineers Dave Curle and Dario Mollo handling mixing.

The track listing is as follows:

01. ‘Into The Mouth Of Eternity’
02. ‘Cruel Magic’
03. ‘The Doomsday Clock’
04. ‘Legions Hellbound’
05. ‘Ophidian’
06. ‘My Prophetic Soul’
07. ‘Death Knell For A King’
08. ‘Who Among Us’
09. ‘Ghosts Of Monongah’
10. ‘Mortality’

Satan’s line-up is as follows:

Brian Ross (vocals, Blitzkrieg / ex-Avenger / ex-Lone Wolf)
Russ Tippins (guitar, ex-Blind Fury / ex-Pariah)
Steve Ramsey (guitar, Skyclad / ex-Blind Fury / ex-Pariah)
Graeme English (bass, Skyclad / ex-Blind Fury / ex-Pariah)
Sean Taylor (drums, ex-Warrior / ex-Blind Fury / ex-Blitzkrieg / ex-Pariah)

Cruel Magic was made available in the following formats; CD, digipak CD, vinyl, and limited box set (including digipak CD, exclusive bonus CD, exclusive dead gold-marbled vinyl with exclusive bonus LP, 75x75cm flag, circular 12-inch patch, five A4 art prints, A4 photo card, and numbered certificate.

Vinyl versions of Cruel Magic consisted of the following editions; 180g black vinyl, clear vinyl (limited to 500 copies – EU exclusive), red / black-marbled vinyl (limited to 300 copies – EU exclusive), water blue-marbled vinyl (limited to 200 copies – EU exclusive), steel grey-marbled vinyl (limited to 300 copies – US exclusive), and yellow / ochre-marbled vinyl (limited to 200 copies – US exclusive).

Music videos were filmed for the tracks ‘The Doomsday Clock’ and ‘Into The Mouth Of Eternity’. Both clips can be viewed below.

Fourth studio record Atom By Atom was released in October 2015 via Listenable Records.

Promotional photograph by Stefan Rosic.