Czech Black Metal legends INFERNO – actively shaping the genre since the mid '90s – return with a successor to 2021's highly acclaimed "Paradeigma". The band's electrifying ninth full-length, "The Anthropic Sophisms", contains four epic tracks where deep space Black Metal, Industrial brutalism, malevolent motorik rhythms, crackling electronics and obscure vocals collide in an ecstatic, perma-climatic trance without hope of resolution or a semblance of light.

 

Tracklist:

01. Fission of the Soul
02. Dekranos Katexochen (Mých smrtí je bezpočet, mých nemocí mnoho)
03. With Raving Mouths They Utter Things Mirthless, Unadorned and Unperfumed
04. Circulus Vitiosus Deus (The Infinity Ravages All)

Cover paintings are by Dávid Glomba (ASCENSION, CULT OF FIRE, MALOKARPATAN) and the layout was designed by Heresie Studio.

All music and lyrics composed by Ska-Gul, Sheafraidh, Morion, Adramelech, Matron Thorn & Spící hrdlo Antikrista.

"The Anthropic Sophisms" was mixed by Tim de Gieter at Much Luv Studio (AMENRA, DOODSESKADER, TREHA SEKTORI) and mastered by James Plotkin (KHANATE, THOU, BONG-RA).

Conceptually "The Anthropic Sophisms" rejects a human-centered, anthropocentric perspective. As the band states:

"The human being is neither measure nor destination here, only a witness. An infinitesimal point within a field of forces that surpass it. The senses fail, reason loses its footing, and yet something is happening. Something unnameable, existing beyond language and beyond control. This is not music that tells a story or offers consolation in a refrain. It is a movement unfolding regardless of expectation."

INFERNO now unveil a first and only single for their ninth opus, supported by a surrealist video from Fabio Rincones (SELBST). 'Circulus Vitiosus Deus (The Infinity Ravages All)' combines viscous deep space atmospherics and Industrial force into a relentless, hallucinatory spiral of tense dissonance.

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INFERNO had this to say about the track:

"Every deed turns to dust, washed away by the waves of oblivion, and yet he walks forth, renouncing, silent and blind. Such a grotesque spectacle, which, however, lacks witnesses and script. It lays bare the fateful truth: Man is a mere footnote in the work of spontaneous creation without end. But are we not the heroes of the role given to us? The proud beings of free will?!"

"The Anthropic Sophisms" will be released on CD, vinyl – including an exclusive DMP version – and digital on July 17th. A specially designed t-shirt accompanies the release. Pre-orders are possible via our EU, US and Bandcamp shops.