{"id":5110,"date":"2025-12-26T15:09:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethoscollective.live\/?p=5110"},"modified":"2025-12-26T15:09:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:09:41","slug":"gargoyles-in-the-night-wasteland-drop-unannounced-standalone-single-scepters-of-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethoscollective.live\/vi\/news\/gargoyles-in-the-night-wasteland-drop-unannounced-standalone-single-scepters-of-fate\/","title":{"rendered":"Gargoyles in the Night Wasteland Drop Unannounced Standalone Single \u201cScepters of Fate\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hanoi-based metal outfit <strong>Gargoyles in the Night Wasteland<\/strong> have quietly returned with a new standalone single, &#8220;<em>Scepters of Fate<\/em>,&#8221; released without prior announcement. Arriving in the wake of their self-titled debut album, the track feels less like a continuation and more like a stark afterimage, a deliberate, isolated statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leaning into the band\u2019s grim atmosphere and ritualistic weight, &#8220;<em>Scepters of Fate&#8221;<\/em> sharpens their sound into something more focused and confrontational. The track unfolds with a sense of inevitability, balancing oppressive riffing with a slow-burning sense of tension that suggests both decay and resolve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>Scepters of Fate&#8221;<\/em> is available now via the band\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/gargoylz.bandcamp.com\/track\/scepters-of-fate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bandcamp page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ethoscollective.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Scepters-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ethoscollective.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Scepters-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ethoscollective.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Scepters-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ethoscollective.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Scepters-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ethoscollective.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Scepters-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ethoscollective.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Scepters-12x12.jpg 12w, https:\/\/ethoscollective.live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Scepters.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hanoi metal act Gargoyles in the Night Wasteland return without warning with Scepters of Fate, a stark standalone single released after their self-titled debut. Grim, focused, and ritualistic, the track stands as an isolated statement rather than a continuation.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"1","footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[89,56,88,61,60],"class_list":["post-5110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-black-metal","tag-death-metal","tag-diy","tag-hanoi","tag-metal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethoscollective.live\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethoscollective.live\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethoscollective.live\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethoscollective.live\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethoscollective.live\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ethoscollective.live\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5112,"href":"https:\/\/ethoscollective.live\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5110\/revisions\/5112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethoscollective.live\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethoscollective.live\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethoscollective.live\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethoscollective.live\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}