According to their Facebook, their new album will be a return to the style of their first two albums No Escape and Under the Spell. Apart from founding member Dan Watson on guitar, they have John Shafer on drums, who played on their third and latest album Morbid Reality, and on guitar they now also have Bobbie Wright from Brocas Helm.



1. Macabre Procession of Specters
2. Screaming Sacrifice
3. Slave in Hell
4. Swimming the Witch
5. Dark Void of Evil
6. Unraveled
7. Voices
8. Exhumed for the Reaping
9. Circle the Drain
10. Wrath of the Reaper

Bonus track:
11. Certificate of Death

Shit, Hexx with a new USPM album that features goddamn Bobbie Wright? Under the Spell is a great power/thrash album, it's like the lost Chastain record except even meaner and darker. Definitely didn't expect those guys to ever reform, much less start playing power metal again, but color me interested. I'll definitely be keeping an eye on them.

Hopefully it'll be pretty good. I suppose they can't really follow up Morbid Reality these days, that was one hell of an insanity-fueled record, and more USPM is always good.

((remembers the amount of "wow who care's..." when their reunion was first revealed ))

Whoa! I can't believe this. Underrated band.

Color me excited... Time to go re-listen to the first two.

I like their death metal albums, but if they were to reform and play that I think we already know how that would sound.

Oh man, a new Hexx album that is going to be power/thrash? I love their first two albums so I'm rather excited for this, to say the least!

hope their performance at KIT wasnt a indication for how this album will sound because they played so sloppy and badly there.

I recall hearing a "new song" from them that sounded pretty bad, so I'm skeptical for now. That said, Under the Spell is a great album with some of the best and most visceral vocals ever in USPM, like a rabid Carl Albert.

I just kind of started getting into this band. The first one seems a bit meandering and lost to me at times but I really, really dig the second one a lot. So i think this could be ace. Also interesting that Big Bob has joined the band...that's definitely got my attention because I love his style.

This hopefully will be awesome. Under the Spell is indeed great, and while I love Morbid Reality as well, I wouldn't expect them to be able to continue playing that fast especially this far ahead in their career (hell, they even had trouble playing that fast live back when that album was released, according to the liner notes in the Dark Symphonies' reissue).

I prefer the Sadus-ish releases but this will be interesting to hear.

Just been listening to morbid reality again lately and realizing how much I actually could go another album in this style. They really GOT the whole death/thrash thing.

Just listening to that one for the first time today. My girlfriend has it but I never spun it until now. Not sure how much i really like it. It is faster and more intense than I expected it to be, but the guitars seem a bit ... plain and unremarkable. It might grow on me though. They certainly did manage to make it vicious.

https://soundcloud.com/high-roller-reco ... e-official

Track from the album.

I mean, it's not bad, but it's pretty ordinary and repetitive. The verse riff is legitimately kind of cool but it doesn't ultimately go anywhere - the song is just begging for a big, soaring chorus to break up the monotony but it never comes.

It's not really that surprising, though. It would be hard for this band to recapture the magic of Under the Spell, which itself is hardly a masterwork of songwriting or riffcraft. That album is almost entirely carried by Dan Bryant's incredible vocal performance; the rest of the music is just decent enough to not get in the way. Remove the key ingredient from the mix, and what's left isn't particularly inspiring.

I have it pre-ordered.

That song just kicked my ass! Very excited for this.

song sounds pretty decent, better than i expected.

I've listened to roughly half the album and what I've heard is solid.

Verses remind me a lot of Metal Meltdown (Priest), but more repetitive, and the chorus doesn't really feel like a chorus, like they're upping the intensity a little but there's no release. The solo was nice, unexpected change of pace, had hints of the mystical parts of No Escape. Although they didn't need to repeat it again at the end. Not bad, I like the general sound and style but the arrangement gets old quickly. Should have been a three minute song.

It's good.

I review it in my new YouTube video...