Belgian doom metal monoliths Akem Manah announce new full-length album »Threnodies« and premiere haunting first single!

Ghent, Belgium based doom/death metal collective Akem Manah will release their sophomore full-length album »Threnodies« on April 3rd, 2026 via Black Lion Records.

Watch a lyric Video for the album’s first single »The End Of Earnest Hollow« below!

Tracklist:
01. The Inevitable Fate Of Francis Cobb (Intro)
02. The End Of Earnest Hollow
03. The Mystery Of Mosef Mehul
04. The Burning Of John Briggs
05. The Journey Of Nathaniel Johnson
06. The Undoing Of An Unknown (Interlude)
07. The Fall Of Maximillian Montagne
08. The Sleep Of Eve Saldana
09. The Demise Of John Dunn
10. The Hanging Of Edward Hope (Outro)

Courtesy of All Noir PR:

Belgian doom metal monoliths Akem Manah have announced their forthcoming full-length album, »Threnodies«, due for release on April 3 via Black Lion Records. Alongside the announcement, the band has unveiled the first single, »The End Of Earnest Hollow«, offering an intense and unsettling first glimpse into the sonic abyss that awaits. The track is accompanied by a lyric video.

Akem Manah’s new album »Threnodies« is a cycle of human unraveling in ten dirges for those who sought the truth behind the world and found only the abyssal chaos staring back. Each song recounts a different descent into forbidden knowledge, madness and death of men and women who, out of grief, faith, or hunger for meaning, reached too far into the Mythos. Their stories are not about monsters but about the human need to see beyond the illusion of order, and the silence that answers.

Musically, »Threnodies« draws from doom and black metal’s bleak cadence, but with an overt horror tone. A lament sung from within the void rather than against it. Every track is a threnody in the ancient sense, namely a song for the dead, and for what in us dies when we understand too much.

»Threnodies« balances suffocating doom riffs, blackened atmospheres and ritualistic pacing, forging a sound that feels less like a confrontation and more like a slow submission. »The End Of Earnest Hollow« exemplifies this approach: vast and oppressive, it lingers long after the final note fades.

The album was edited, mixed and mastered by Brett Caldas-Lima at Tower Studio and is available for pre-order at THIS LOCATION.

Line-up:
RD – Bass Guitar
GVC – Rhythm Guitar
JT – Lead Guitar
XDS – Guitars, Keyboards, Vocals

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well