The Swedish black metal band Myronath made their debut in 2019 with the full-length Into the Qliphoth, and two years later followed that with another album aptly named Djevelkraft. Now they’re returning with album number three, their most ambitious one yet, and it too has a very fitting title: Inferno, fitting not only because of the sensations of the music but also because the album is a conceptual work inspired by Dante‘s Inferno.
Inferno again features the work of former Ragnorak members Hellcommander Vargblod (vocals, bass) and Bjarkan (guitars), joined this time by guitarist Bathim and studio session drummer Calle Larsson.
In advance of Inferno‘s May 30 release date by the Dusktone label, they’ve already released a first single (with a lyric video) named “Purity Through Indulgence“, and today we present a second one, “The Voracious Sphere“.
“Purity Through Indulgence” is sheer fire, a ferocious blaze of soaring and sweeping riffage, blistering percussion, and demonic vocals drenched in vitriol. It’s wild and diabolically glorious, with the guitars roiling and ringing in incandescent exultation yet with a diabolically sinister aura, and the rhythm section keep the listener’s pulse pounding throughout their variations.
Haughty cries elevate above the vast rolling waves of incendiary and spine-shivering intensity, and a guitar solo at the finale flickers and wails, both delirious and steeped in agony, adding to the song’s supernatural atmosphere and spinning the music up to even greater heights of fire and ferocity.
It’s no wonder the band and the label chose that song as the new album’s first single, because it’s such a full-throttle adrenaline rush and its lyricism is so frighteningly hellish. The song we’re presenting today is no less breathtaking, but it’s even darker
“The Voracious Sphere” also arrives with a blasphemous lyric video, which includes footage of Myronath in a live setting (with Emil Modigh on drums). The guitars blaze again in rolling waves of grandeur that submerge the senses, but the emotional timbre of the music is ominous and distressing, and this time the vocals include strident choral singing, condemning those who fall to their knees before a false divinity.
The song also changes course in a way the first single didn’t, briefly softening and becoming more mystical before renewed upheavals happen in the low end and the riffing becomes even more despairing.
For more info about Inferno, check the locations linked below. Dusktone recommends it for fans of such bands as Necrophobic and Lord Belial. Credit for the cover art goes to Zein Hestnæs.
DUSKTONE:
https://www.dusktone.it/
https://dusktone.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/dusktone
https://www.instagram.com/dusktone/
MYRONATH:
https://www.facebook.com/myronath
https://www.instagram.com/myronath.official/
https://myronath.bandcamp.com/album/djevelkraft
