Das Dark-Black-Metal-Duo HULDER hat mit „In Blood and In Earth“ die zweite Single aus dem kommenden Album *Verbolgen* veröffentlicht, das am 7. August 2026 über Season of Mist (Europa) und 20 Buck Spin (Nordamerika) erscheinen soll. Begleitet wird der Song von einem offiziellen Musikvideo unter der Regie des Filmemachers Justin Oakey aus Neufundland; es dient als letzter Vorgeschmack vor der Veröffentlichung des gesamten Albums.
Hier das Video zu In Blood and In Earth:
Running just over seven minutes, "In Blood and In Earth" is an act of communal rite set in motion by the landscape itself. The track builds from foreboding restraint into sweeping, storm-gathered momentum, as Hulder's vocals call out in invocation to named elder trees: Aiken, Natilon, before the full weight of the arrangement bears down. Lyrically rooted in the Belgic war cry barritus and the sovereignty-granting goddess Cathobadua, the song frames endurance and bloodshed not as tragedy but as covenant: a pact between flesh and earth that the living inherit from the ancient dead. The band describe it plainly: "This second offering from the forthcoming album stands as a warning and a spell. Speak these words as the land below bellows forewarning... Shall you fall upon your knees?"
