Polish black metal act Deus Mortem unleash their third single, and it’s the title track from their forthcoming third album, Thanatos.
Available digitally, as are their previous single releases, while you can check out videos for each here at RAMzine.
Scheduled for release on 15th November 2024, via Profane Spirit Productions, Thanatos will see the band retaining their black metal roots while showcasing a blend of old-school rock and metal influences, “with driving riffs, thunderous rhythm sections, and haunting melodies”.
Thanatos is a concept album that confronts the complexities of human existence. It takes listeners on a transformative journey through illusory realities, unveiling hidden truths and stripping away the veils of deception. It’s a testament to personal struggle and the power of the Black Flame.
‘When the Creation Tastes of Dionysian Wine‘ was the band’s previous single with vocalist and guitarist Necrosodom commenting: “The creation of this piece was accompanied by the long and deep contemplation of the art tarot card. It is actually a piece about art and the work of creation. It begins with an invocation, a summoning of inspiration, the element of creative fire. Through the deities of war and revenge, the expansive force of destruction in the cycle of creation is unleashed. This is where the vision of a new world and a new self is born. It is a flowering of inspiration and creative freedom.”
“The cycle of destruction and creation anew here expresses artistic rebellion, art outside the patterns, individual, changing the rules of its own game, reconstruction of style and searching for inspiration beyond just oneself. It is an inspiration that goes beyond the ego. Revealing art in all its glory and retreating to forge its next chapters in silence again. The fruits of art here mean not only artistic creation, but also life choices, which are also art.”
‘Krwawy Świt’ translates as “bloody dawn” was the bands’s first single release from the new album and it is a song about tearing off the curtain of illusion and liberating the soul from the clutches of deadly nostalgia. It is intended to express the futility of searching for fulfilment in an existence that turns out to be an empty vessel. It is a song filled with hatred for the world and bitterness, where the only salvation for the soul is a spark of black fire that barely, but constantly smoulders.
Necrosodom commented: “’Krwawy Świt’ is the beginning of a story about spiritual transformation, about a thorny path from the deadness of non-existence, towards a higher form of one’s own consciousness. Musically, it balances between the school of black metal and the old rock vibe, which in the case of Deus Mortem is quite a bold step and opening the gates to previously unknown areas.”
Ahead of the album’s release, Deus Mortem will embark on a Polish tour with fellow black metal acts Venefices and Devilpriest.
