Italian epic heavy metal outfit Konquest stream new album »Dark Waters« in full ahead of its release this Friday via No Remorse Records!

Prato, Italy based epic heavy metal outfit Konquest stream their third full-length album »Dark Waters« in full ahead of its release this Friday, April 24th, 2026 via No Remorse Records.

Tracklist:
01. Turn The Lights Off
02. Mindwanderer
03. One Ticket For One Ride
04. Dark Waters
05. The Giant
06. Man With A Stone
07. Over The Edge
08. Kubla Khan (A Vision In A Dream)

Courtesy of No Remorse Records:

»Dark Waters«, the third chapter in Konquest’s discography, feels less like a peaceful album and more like a descent in a dark passage with no clear bottom.

It circles around a quiet, dangerous desire: the urge to switch off the light, to unscrew the mind from its socket before the noise becomes unbearable. The protagonist longs for silence, for the stillness that comes when thoughts finally surrender. Yet paradoxically, he never stops traveling. His body may stand still, but his mind sprints through centuries, through myths, through imagined past lives where fire is newly discovered and the world is simple enough to understand.

He dreams of the Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan, of ancient warmth and primitive clarity, of a time before overthinking became a cage. He measures himself against missed chances, against the version of his life he thought he would reach by now. Beneath it all runs a fear: that if he cannot rise above these dark waters of the mind, he will drown in them.

Photo by Valeria Calossi

The force pressing down is immense. The brain moves too fast. Fantasy becomes both refuge and battlefield.

»Dark Waters« is the sound of a mind that never powers down: restless, brilliant, exhausted. It is a conflicted voyage between suffocation and escape, dedicated to those who feel crushed by their own emotions, yet still dare to imagine another shore.

Pre-order »Dark Waters« HERE.

Produced, recorded, mixed & performed by Alex Rossi.
Mastered by Arthur Rizk.
Cover artwork by Zeero.
Photography by Valeria Calossi.

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