HYPNOTIC DIRGE RELEASES • 2026


LUMEN AD MORTEM - A Grave Ascent
Release: June 19, 2026
Style: Melodic Black Metal
Formats: LP | CD | Digital
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A striking dose of ferocious black metal that balances perfectly between an energetic drive fueled by lightning-fast tremolo riffs and a mid-paced dirge drenched in atmosphere, Lumen Ad Mortem returns this summer with "A Grave Ascent." Crafting anthemic black metal with unrelenting intensity, these new offerings are chock-full of nefarious melodies, wrapped around rhythm guitars and bass that retain a malleable nature, alongside ominous synth lines and relentless drums.
ESCAPING AGHARTHA - Lurkers of Languid Waters
Release: May 22, 2026
Style: Progressive Doom Metal
Formats: CD | Digital
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Escaping Aghartha is a doom/black metal band from North Carolina, USA. On "Lurkers of Languid Waters", Escaping Aghartha's ninth full-length record, the band focuses on the ongoing declines of anguillid eels. A mammoth of a record with a nearly 80 min runtime, Escaping Aghartha explores the threats to anguillid eels in addition to their biology and incredible life cycle through a tapestry of progressive blackened doom, discordant ambience, and black metal urgency. 
CONJURING - Memento Mori
Release: May 8, 2026
Style: Atmospheric Black Metal
Formats: CD | Digital
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Conjuring is a one-man atmospheric black metal project from the Swiss mountains. The music combines melancholic tremolo passages, immersive atmospheres, and dynamic songwriting that balances fragility and intensity. The project draws inspiration from vast landscapes, shifting seasons, fading light, and the quiet presence of ancient spirits. Conjuring stands as a reflection of devotion — to Black Metal, to nature, and to the eternal cycle of life and death.
TUMULTUOUS RUIN - An Abscess on the Heart of the State
Release: April 24, 2026
Style: Black Metal
Formats: LP | Digital
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Rooted in fury and urgency, "An Abscess on the Heart of the State" is a raw onslaught of destructive and dirty black metal filled with aggressive and discordant riffs that invoke the spirit of the second-wave sound with cold soaring tremolo leads brushing against urgent rhythm sections. Inspired by a general desire to destroy all systems of oppression, "An Abscess on the Heart of the State" is an uncompromising cry for justice and revolution!
NONE - ⧄
Release: April 11, 2026
Style: Ambient Black Metal
Formats: CD | Digital
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Unreleased reimaginings of the first two songs that became NONE. Originally released in 2017 and out of print for many years, NONE's selftitled debut quickly left a mark upon dsbm listeners and was the beginning of a run of consistent high-quality releases culminating in the final album "Inevitable". The fourth and final pressing of NONE's selftitled album is now available, released for the first time alongside unreleased reimaginings of NONE's earliest work.
FOGHAZER - He Left The Temple
Release: March 27, 2026
Style: Black Metal / Trip-hop
Formats: CD | Digital
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Foghazer is a project built on trip-hop rhythm, black-metal texture and lo-fi cinematic atmosphere, crafting a discordant and haunting atmosphere rooted in black metal aesthetic yet drawing from sounds far outside the genre's confines. "The record began as an accident. Fragments of trip-hop, early-2000s vinyl scratching, and the Black Metal influences I grew up on colliding with the dark, operatic production of Temples of Boom and the haunted stillness of Portishead.
GOMMA (ڨمَّةْ) - Wailing and Madness (نواح و جنون)
Release: March 6, 2026
Style: Black Metal
Formats: Digital
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Gomma (ڨمَّةْ) - meaning "manhole" in Arabic - is a one man project from Tunisia founded by Gh'ramm in 2024. Eschewing the common western scales typical in Black Metal in favour of Arabic scales, motifs, and instrumentation, Gomma (ڨمَّةْ) succeeds in crafting a black metal record that is genuine and authentic, a mosaic of a traditional western genre with an uncompromising Arabic influence. 

NOVÆ - Destroying Angels
Release: February 27, 2026
Style: Ambient Black Metal
Formats: CD | Digital
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Unfolding like a transmission from the cosmos, discordant guitars clash against ethereal droning synth and authentic samples taken from the Apollo 11 MOCR ACR Collection to craft an immersive atmosphere simultaneously unnerving and transcendent. Combining raw and dissonant black metal with cold distant ambience, "Destroying Angels" builds layers of tension and abrasive unease before giving way to sparse chilling ambience.

DE L’ABÎME NAÎT L’AUBE - Rituel: Initiation
Release: February 13, 2026
Style: Post-Black Metal
Formats: CD | DLP | Digital
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At the crossroads between the emotional universe of Amenra and the initiatory realm of Heilung, “De l’Abîme Naît l’Aube” is a project aiming to blend atmospheric and melodic post-metal with tribal rituality, offering a hypnotic, transcendent, and luminous experience. De l’Aube Naît l’Aube explores a post-metal universe infused with atmospheric black metal, shaped by multiple influences, marked by tempo changes and a strong sense of dramaturgy.

MOON WISDOM - Let Water Flow
Release: January 16, 2026
Style: Black Metal
Formats: CD | Digital
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This lean, 29-minute ritual introduces MOON WISDOM with unrelenting vigor, channeling the raw spirit of black metal’s second wave while weaving a current of punk energy and depressive blackgaze. “Let Water Flow” distills its ferocity into seven tracks that surge like a glacial flood, Razor-edged riffs carve through each song, blending the primal fury of early black metal with soaring melodies that linger like mist.

HEKSEBLAD - The Fall of Cintra
Release: January 16, 2026
Style: Black Metal
Formats: 10" Vinyl | Digital
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Channeling a raw primal energy reminiscent of black metal's second-wave, "The Fall of Cintra" is aggressive and atmospheric, with hints of symphonic and melodic flourishes sprinkled within, but with a spirit that summons the ghost of the classic 90's sound. Those who prefer a less polished sound may well consider this Hekseblad's most essential work.