Russian doom/death/sludge band Crust released new album »Where Light Fears To Descend«; out now via Moribund Records!

Russian doom/death/sludge band Crust stream their sixth album, »Where Light Fears To Descend«, which was just released on May 23rd, 2025 via Moribund Records.

Tracklist:
01. Soul-Grinding Abyss
02. Premeditation Of Evils
03. Coffin Sodomy
04. Crimen Contra Humanitatem
05. Your Sweet Smell And Bitter Taste
06. Lightgiver
07. Apokatastasis Panton
08. Agony In Blood
09. Frozen Tomb

Courtesy of Moribund Records:

The highly anticipated 6th album of doom-laden, death-laced black metal!

Crust have carved a unique path for themselves since their inception in 2014. They have released 5 acclaimed albums and toured extensively, fresh out of the fire of their incredible album »Wanderers«, Crust bring us further into the darkness with their latest opus »Where Light Fears To Descend«. With no aspirations of convention, Crust have their roots firmly found balancing forward-thinking black metal and a dark, intelligent tapestry of bleak atmospherics and doom-laden Stoic mysticism. It is this dark essence that brought them to the attention of legendary USBM label Moribund Records and it was not long before an infernal pact was sealed.

Crust’s sixth album »Where Light Fears To Descend« is their most powerful and mature work to date, a monolith of bleak avant-garde black metal weaving a dark cloth that is as profound as it is mesmerizing. 9 tracks to drag your soul into the abyssal pit of despair, where no light can shine and all hope erased. Abandon all hope ye who enter here…

»Soul-Grinding Abyss« take listeners on a journey into the depths of Dante’s world, where they’ll encounter eternal torment and Lucifer’s cold dominion. »Premeditation Of Evils« is a sojourn through desolate landscapes of grief and revelation, forging a soul through pain. The provocative »Coffin Sodomy« blends passion and death, painting a macabre picture of forbidden love. In »Crimen Contra Humanitatem«, humanity’s descent into chaos is depicted as a spiritual and cosmic collapse.

»Your Sweet Smell And Bitter Taste« blends beauty with destruction, celebrating love as both paradise and hell. »Lightgiver« mourn the loss of hope, where glimmers of light persist within broken souls.

The expansive »Apokatastasis Pantôn« ponders the cyclical destruction and rebirth of the cosmos, evoking celestial insight. »Agony In Blood« grapples with the existential anguish and humanity’s futile struggle to transcend suffering. Ultimately, the chilling »Frozen Tomb« encapsulates the dissolution of the natural and metaphysical realms in a frigid apocalypse.

The album is a journey into the band’s observations on the pointlessness of life, the cyclical nature of death and rebirth, and the burden of human suffering. From the frozen remains of the dead to the end of the world as we know it, each track is a chapter in one long story of despair, change, and the hope that sometimes seems to flicker in the dark.

Pre-order »Where Light Fears To Descend« here: moribundrecords.bandcamp.com

Production & engineering by Artem Dolina.

Mastered by Richard Corvinus (Swords Of Dis) at Corvin Studios, UK.

Features orginal artwork by incredible neo-impressionist artist Deni Aktemirov (Coldthorn).

Crust is:
Arthur Filenko – Lead and Backing Vocals, Bass
Vlad Tatarskiy – Lead and Rhythm Guitar
Denis Borovinsky – Lead Guitar

Roman Romanov – Drums on »Where Light Fears To Descend«
Rostislav Alekseev – Drums

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