Louisiana experimental doom metal duo Radiant Knife premieres new studio album »Sankalpa« in full ahead of its release this Friday!

Lafayette, Louisiana based experimental doom metal duo Radiant Knife is streaming their upcoming album »Sankalpa« in full on No Clean Singing!

Radiant Knife’s sixth full-length album »Sankalpa« will drop this Friday, November 13th, 2026.

Tracklist:
01. Amber Waves
02. Crystal Oscillation
03. Disciple Of The Astral Plane
04. Down On The River Bank
05. Sankalpa
06. Consciousness As The Foundation Of Reality
07. Bewailer
08. Through The Heliopause
09. Bones
10. On The Mend

Courtesy of Earsplit PR:

“The music manically darts and heavily gouges, feverishly twitches and boldly brays, sends celestial keys shimmering overhead and inflicts brutishly chugging flurries, rhythmically rocks out and goes off-kilter, and becomes dreamy and woozy near the end, even as it continues to jab like a jackhammer.” – No Clean singing on »Sankalpa«

No Clean Singing is currently streaming »Sankalpa«, the latest full-length from Louisiana experimental doom metal duo, Radiant Knife, in its entirety. The premiere comes in advance of the record’s official release Friday, November 13th.

Radiant Knife – Stephen Sheppert (guitars, synth, vocals) and Greg Travasos (drums) – spawned from that very lineage as a sci-fi-influenced experimental metal duo, taking cues from the mid-‘90s sonic explosion from Relapse, Hydrahead, and Amphetamine Reptile Records that changed underground metal forever.

Photo by Greg Travasos

»Sankalpa« serves as the duo’s follow-up to 2023’s »Pressure« release which The Sleeping Shaman crowned, “a genuinely diverse and engaging piece of work,” Mystification Zine named, “a face-clawing riff ‘n’ rhythm record,” and Metal Injection championed for being, “synthy, doomy, and experimental.”

Though not a complete departure from the gritty, off-timed approach of »Pressure«, »Sankalpa« – defined as a heartfelt, focused intention or solemn vow – takes a more refined, groove laden approach with a focus on melody, layering and texture. Replete with dueling guitar overlays, atmospheric synth textures, floating vocals, and dense rhythm guitars, »Sankalpa« sits somewhere in the realm of releases from the likes of Hum, Elder, and Russian Circles, while still harkening to key influences such as Dazzling Killmen, King Crimson, and ‘90s-era experimental metal.

Write No Clean Singing in part, “It’s enough to say that »Sankalpa« is an entirely captivating album – imaginative, genre-bending, beautifully performed, both dangerous and radiant, both heartbreaking and heart-bursting, earthbound and out of this world, and well worth your time from its arresting start to its soul-shaking finish.”

Stream Radiant Knife’s »Sankalpa« in its stunning entirety HERE.

Watch Radiant Knife’s »Disciple Of The Astral Plane« video HERE.

»Sankalpa« features artwork by Terry Grow and was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Stephen Sheppert at Starless Sound. The record will be released digitally across all streaming platforms.

Find preorders at the Radiant Knife Bandcamp page HERE.

Radiant Knife is:
Stephen Sheppert – Guitars, Synth, Vocals
Greg Travasos – Drums

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