American Gothic - 2023 European Century Media label Worn-Steel Silver 8-track LP

WAYFARER is the pre-eminent Western American Metal band. Comprised of four black clad players from Denver, Colorado, the band’s sound draws from the deep wells of black metal, gothic country, and americana - creating a thunderous and uniquely American genre of metal all to their own.

After ten years of existence, the band presents AMERICAN GOTHIC - a defining statement of Western heavy music that explores the dark soul of the nation itself. This time working alongside accomplished producer Arthur Rizk (Eternal Champion, Kreator) the band brings an aggressive and expansive vision to life in a new full length LP.

Led by powerful riffing, bleak melodic sensibilities, and pointed songwriting, this record serves as a funeral for the American dream. Caked in dust, and buried deep in blood and gunpowder, it paints a brutal and beautiful portrait, and sees WAYFARER elevate their unique and genuine brand of metal to new heights.

AMERICAN GOTHIC, the band’s fifth official release, is their third album with longtime partners Profound Lore Records in North America and first for Century Media in Europe. The album releases worldwide in the fall of 2023, and will see the band ride across stages the world round to tell its tales.

“What we have now is a world full of oil drillers, and railroad barons. Cattle thieves and company men. This is the new American Gothic.”

Produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by Arthur Rizk
Second engineer: Aidan Elias
Additional engineering: John Powers
Hammond organ on "To Enter My House Justified" and "A High Plains Eulogy" by Chris McNaughton
Guest vocals on "Black Plumes Over God's Country" by George Cessna
Voiceover on "Black Plumes Over God's Country" by Munly J. Munly
Artwork and design by Aaron Horkey
Additional design by Shane McCarthy

Tracklisting:

1. The Thousand Tombs of Western Promise
2. The Cattle Thief
3. Reaper On the Oilfields
4. To Enter My House Justified
5. A High Plains Eulogy
6. 1934
7. Black Plumes Over God's Country
8. False Constellation