Akhlys are a band whose sound can only be described as terrifying. Their new song, 'Ephialtes' is larger than life and drives listeners to madness. Akhlys have mastered the art of creating epic and broad facing compositions that beat you over the head with crushing volume and devastating atmospheres.
There is something truly terrifying about the power of these songs and the way that they endlessly invoke some of the more demented aspects of the genre.
It also speaks to the magic of their label Debemur Morti that these sorts of releases are par for the course for them. If you're looking for more great black metal, the Debemur Morti back catalog is an amazing resource.
'Ephialtes' is a crusher. It will leave listeners in awe and reminds us why we fell in love with this twisted music in the first place. Project mastermind Naas says:
I wanted this track to evoke an aura of immediate and sustained panic, and so I took a more direct approach, going right for the jugular, so to speak. It needed to be vicious and with less adornment to sufficiently relay this. ‘Ephialtes’ is the embodiment of the immediate and primordial dread that arises in such encounters. It was actually the last track I composed and ended up replacing another which simply did not make the cut. I had not planned on writing another song but then the opening riff just came to me one night. That initial riff simply invoked this perfect sense of panic and dread that I had been chasing over the months of composing for the album. The rest of the track just grew from this first composition.
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