American death/doom metal band Night Hag announces new album »Great Dismal Darkness«; first single »Effluvia Tendrils« streaming now!

Virginia Beach, Virginia based death/doom metal band Night Hag will release their sophomore album »Great Dismal Darkness« on October 16th, 2026 via Rotted Life Records.

Listen to the album’s first single »Effluvia Tendrils« below!

Tracklist:
01. Drowned In Death
02. Effluvia Tendrils
03. It Came Back The Next Night
04. Staring Into The Ancient Chasm
05. Strange Whispers From Beneath The Cypress
06. The Terrible Old Woman
07. Excoriate (Disembowlement)

Courtesy of Rotted Life Records:

Rotted Life Records announces October 16th as the international release date for the highly anticipated second album of America’s Night Hag, »Great Dismal Darkness«, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.

Pre-order here: rottedlife.bandcamp.com

Richmond, Virginia’s Night Hag return from the shadows with »Great Dismal Darkness«, the band’s first full-length since 2022’s »Phantasmal Scourge« and the first release as a four-piece. Across seven towering slabs of death-doom, »Great Dismal Darkness« sinks deeper into suffocating atmosphere, glue-thick riffs, cavernous growls, and oozing misery. Lumbering dirges, splattering slow-motion double-kick thunder, and walls of rotten distortion create Night Hag’s heaviest, filthiest, and most oppressive work to date.

Since forming in 2010, Night Hag have steadily refined their rancid vision through the »Insemination Rites Of The Succubus« EP, split LPs with Cryptic Brood and Burial, and »Phantasmal Scourge«. »Great Dismal Darkness« pushes that evolution further, embracing a slower, thicker, and more suffocating approach that’s equal parts primitive death metal, fetid doom, and swamp-born sludge. No gimmicks, no polish: just seven tracks of crawling decomposition, oppressive atmosphere, and unrelenting sonic filth.

»Great Dismal Darkness« is Night Hag at their most focused, foulest, and most devastating – a monument to decay built one crushing riff at a time.

In the meantime, hear the brand-new track »Effluvia Tendrils« at Rotted Life’s official YouTube channel.

Recorded and mixed by Yave Rust Recording and Mixing.
Mastered by Bob Greenough at Not For The Weak Records.
Cover Art by Form Terror Growth.
Logo by David Mikkelsen (Undergang).

Night Hag is:
Sam Fox – Vocals/Bass
Jon Ransom – Drums/Vocals
Casey Williams – Guitars
Joe Arida – Guitars

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