While we wait for the new album coming later this year from legendary Uk crust punks Amebix, the band has offered this tease of a 12" that came out on Profane Existence earlier this summer. More of an art object for collectors than anything, this record features just one new song, "Knights Of The Black Sun", the first new Amebix song to be released in over twenty five years. Pretty amazing that this band is once again active with a new album on the way, and naturally fans have been wondering what their new stuff would sound like. If this song is any indication of what to expect, then that upcoming Lp is going to be majestic. "Knights of The Black Sun" begins with a softly strummed guitar that picks up into a catchy, melodic riff, and then the vocals kick in, clear and bright, and actually sounding surprisingly like those of Richard Butler from the Psychedelic Furs, a deep melodic burr that adds to the strangely epic post-punk feel of the song. But then the band cranks up the power, the drums coming in with a steady beat but then rising up into a thunderous tribal rhythm, the guitars becoming more furious, and then it all comes together, the epic keyboards dropping in, the vocals shifting into that instantly recognizable charred growl. By this point, there's no mistaking the Amebix sound, although it does sound sleeker and tighter than they ever have on record, unsurprising considering the span of time since their last record and the obvious advances in recording that Amebix now have available to them. But the thunderous metallic post-punk majesty that emanates off of this song is total Amebix. The song moves through crushing doom-laden heaviness, soaring keys that have an almost Cure-like ethereal quality to them, a KILLER, moving anthemic chorus taking shape towards the end, until the song finally ends in a haze of distant feedback and sorrowful piano. Pretty fucking terrific, and makes me even more anxious to hear the comeback album that's on the way. The song takes up the a-side of this record, and on the b-side, there is a laser etching of the iconic Amebix face. This also comes with a download code that includes both a digital version of the record and a Hi Def music video for the song. Limited to two thousand copies.