From Las Vegas, Nevada, SpiritWorld announces the upcoming release of its third album: Helldorado. The follow-up to 2022’s acclaimed Deathwestern, Helldorado will be released March 21, 2025 on Century Media Records.
SpiritWorld founder/frontman Stu Folsom offers these words: “I am thrilled to share that our new album, Helldorado, will be available everywhere, March 21st. We took most of last year off from playing shows, to hunker down and make this record with Sam Pura at the infamous Panda Studios.”
Helldorado is the third chapter in SpiritWorld’s infernal saga. The iconoclastic Folsom has been building the SpiritWorld universe since 2020, beginning with the band’s debut, Pagan Rhythms, and blossoming on second album Deathwestern, both released on Century Media. Distinct from any other band in the scene, SpiritWorld thrives in its own aesthetic realm, a place where thrashing hardcore, Wild West stylings, and supernatural horror dwell in macabre harmony. Clad in matching Western suits, Folsom and his boys have travelled the world with the likes of tours with Obituary, Municipal Waste, Kreator, Sepultura, Stick To Your Guns, and Agnostic Front. More than a musician, Folsom is an author too, and SpiritWorld’s music goes hand in hand with Folsom’s writings. The first two albums were soundtracks to his book, Godlessness, a series of Lovecraftian horror tales set in a fictional Old West.
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Now, with Helldorado, Folsom will demonstrate that everything thus far was merely the prelude. SpiritWorld is just getting started. Helldorado cements the band’s brand, while making new moves that show the breadth of the potential in store.
A 3-minute hellride, opening track “Abilene Grime” begins as a feisty honky-tonk shuffle then transforms into a Slayer-strength fist-pumper that thrashes straight into the abyss. The official “Abilene Grime” music video brings the song to life with cinematic grandeur, depicting a doomed preacher’s descent into the underworld.
“When I wrote the demo for ‘Abilene Grime,’ it felt like the album really found its identity and materialized out of the ether,” says Folsom. “It twangs, it bangs and it has a sick video, directed by our dear friend Todd Hailstone, which we filmed in Las Vegas a few weeks ago. Enjoy, everybody!”
Pre-order Helldorado and stream the album’s opening track, “Abilene Grime” now
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