Polish atmospheric black/epic doom metal act Divine Sovereign expands their Autaxia saga with »Autaxia Chronicles: A House Divided«
Polish atmospheric black/epic doom metal solo project Divine Sovereign return with sophomore album, »Autaxia Chronicles: A House Divided«, due for release via Wormholedeath.
Listen to the album’s first single and opening track »Heresy« below!
Tracklist:
01. Heresy
02. The Price
03. Pledge
04. Battle Below Mountain Range
05. Words Of King
Courtesy of Carlo Bellotti Publishing:
Polish atmospheric black/epic doom metal solo project Divine Sovereign has announced a new album, »Autaxia Chronicles: A House Divided«, due out via Wormholedeath. The first single, »Heresy«, is available now as an audiostream video.
»A House Divided« is the second installment in the Autaxia Chronicles series, picking up where 2025’s »Dawn Of A New Age« left off. Where the first album treated religious fanaticism as a unifying force, people bound together against oppression, this one examines its opposite: how the same beliefs can fracture societies from within. The album draws on the historical reality that nearly every major religion, from early Christianity and Islam to Buddhism and Judaism, carries its own legacy of schism and doctrinal conflict. In the Autaxia universe, things are no different. With the independence war concluded and the planet’s inhabitants now in control of their world, their psionic abilities begin to fail. The king and his priests resort to increasingly brutal rituals in pursuit of what they believe is the species’ ultimate destiny: immortality.
The concept behind »A House Divided« explores the other side of the same coin examined on the first record, religion as a force of division rather than unity, and how that dynamic plays out across different faiths and different eras, both in real history and in Autaxia’s. Musically, the project draws on the atmospheric and epic traditions of Ethereal Shroud, Panopticon, Gallowbraid, and Atlantean Kodex, building long-form songs designed to carry the weight of the story they tell.
About Divine Sovereign:
Divine Sovereign is a Polish atmospheric black/epic doom metal solo project founded in 2023. The project tells the ongoing story of Autaxia, a planet where an advanced species discovers the ruins of a once-great civilization. »Autaxia Chronicles: Dawn Of A New Age« was released in 2025 via Wormholedeath.
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