Unverkalt announce new full-length album »Héréditaire« and unleash first single & music video »Die Auslöschung«!
Berlin, Germany based avant-garde/post-metal band Unverkalt return with their third full-length album, »Héréditaire«, which will be released on February 27th, 2026 via Season Of Mist.
Watch a music video for the first single »Die Auslöschung« below!
Tracklist:
01. Die Auslöschung
02. Oath Ov Prometheus
03. Ænæ Lithi
04. A Lullaby For The Descent
05. Penumbrian Lament
06. Introjects
07. I, The Deceit (feat. Sakis Tolis)
08. Death Is Forever
09. Maladie de l’Esprit
Courtesy of Season Of Mist:
While they’ve always pushed the intricate balance that defines post-metal, Unverkalt are now plummeting over the edge into the black below. Their upcoming third album and first since signing with Season Of Mist descends into humanity’s deepest and darkest origins. »Héréditaire« lifts the veil from our cursed existence. What emerges is the band’s heaviest and most heartfelt offering.
“Our aim has always been to blend softer, more romantic elements with extreme chaos. With »Héréditaire«, that time has come,” says Unverkalt’s guitarist and chief composer Themis Ioannou. “This album is a lament for what is far older than our very existence. It speaks of what seeps through generations, searching for an answer to one pervasive question: What do we carry that was never ours?”
As they begin this dark descent, today, Unverkalt are releasing a haunting video for the stirring lead single from »Héréditaire«. Though it starts as a slow burn, album opener »Die Auslöschung« emerges from the envoloping haze as the band’s first song to pair Dimitra Kalavrezou’s heavenly cleans with hellish harsh vocals.
Photos by PHRENETICA Photography & Design
“»Die Auslöschung« is both bleak and immersive,” Kalavrezou says. “Carved in blackened textures and hypnotic pacing, the song channels both personal and collective collapse, setting the tone for what is to come.”
Watch the video for »Die Auslöschung« on the Season Of Mist YouTube channel.
»Héréditaire« comes out February 27, 2026 on Season Of Mist.
Pre-order HERE // Pre-save on Spotify HERE
Available formats:
• CD Digipack
• 2×12” Vinyl Gatefold (Black)
• 2×12” Vinyl Gatefold (Gold with black splatters)
Unverkalt are still possessed by a cinematic vision. »Die Auslöschung« opens »Héréditaire« like a camera coming into focus. However, though rendered in crisp detail, the scene that the band paints is bleak. Beneath a smoldering bass line, riffs rise like smoke from freshly scattered ashes. “When did this darkness fall?” Kalavrezou sings as if trying to climb out of the shadowed rubble.
On previous albums, Unverkalt took cues from French painting and European film noir, but »Héréditaire« throws back the velvet curtain in favor a veil. »Die Auslöschung« begins to peel back the blackened layers of traumatic memories that are passed down to us like a disease. “He said enter the wide gate and walk the easy path to destruction.” As the pounding drums give way to a fiery stream of blast beats, Kalavrezou breaks into a scream so piercing it can be felt all across our shared history.
“I enjoy discovering new, unique and compelling music in today’s overwhelming world of information, and I believe I truly succeeded with Unverkalt,” says Season Of Mist labelmate and Rotting Christ frontman Sakis Tolis, who’s featured on the monolithic »I, The Deceit« from »Héréditaire«. “This is an exceptional piece of art, worth every minute of listening.”
Catch Unverkalt in Suttgart, Germany early next year when they co-headline Club Zentral with Hippotraktor. Get tickets HERE.
The video for »Die Auslöschung« was directed by Themis Ioannou at RAWBITE Studio
Additional video credits:
Cinematography & editing by Themis Ioannou.
Produced by Unverkalt.
Camera equipment support by Marcus Sander.
Lighting by Hariolf “Harri” Lemke.
Costume design / styling by Sister Jane & Gestuz.
Unverkalt is:
Dimitra Kalavrezou – Vocals
Themis Ioannou – Guitars, Keys
Eli Mavrychev – Guitars, Vocals
Joscha Hoyer – Bass
Christian Eggers – Drums
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well