The Cimmerian drop "Sword & Sorcery Vol. I"

Hailing from Los Angeles, CA, THE CIMMERIAN are preparing to unleash the first volume in their upcoming Sword & Sorcery series influenced by said genre, as first created by Robert E. Howard. Landing on May 12th, Sword & Sorcery Vol. I introduces the doom/ thrash outfit's collection with a riff-splitting bang.

Opening Sword & Sorcery Vol. I is "Suffer No Guilt" a song written from the perspective of the god, Crom, the patron war god of the Cimmerians (as written about in stories by Robert E. Howard as well as Conan’s many different comic book adaptations and movie adaptations). It pulls from all these sources to create a bit of lore that showcase Crom’s gift to Cimmerians, that being the ability to craft weapons, namely swords. The title itself is pulled from the markings on Conan’s father's sword in the 1982 Conan The Barbarian movie which reads: Suffer no guilt ye who wields this in the name of Crom, which also serves as the song’s chorus. The second track on the EP, "Inanna Rising", is a musical reverence for the Mesopotamian goddess Inanna, also known as Ishtar or Astarte. It highlights certain facets of her worship and responsibilities as well as a reference to her from the Epic of Gilgamesh and her responsibilities in the pantheon of other Sumerian/Babylonian deities. In this track THE CIMMERIAN mention her as being the goddess of love/lust and war, with references to several of the stories passed down through time.