San Francisco post-black metal band Bosse-de-Nage brace for new LP release this Friday; share monstrous new single »Leviathan«!
San Francisco, California based post-black metal band Bosse-de-Nage premiere the third single »Leviathan« taken from their forthcoming album, »Hidden Fires Burn Hottest«, set to release this Friday, March 6th, 2026 via The Flenser.
Tracklist:
01. Where To Now?
02. Mementos
03. In The Name Of The Moth
04. With A Shrug
05. No Such Place
06. Triangular Dream
07. Underwater
08. Frenzy
09. Immortality Project
10. Leviathan
Courtesy of another/side:
“Very intriguing…” – BrooklynVegan
“…their most expansive and unbound work yet.” – Metal Injection
“gorgeously chaotic” – Stereogum
Bosse-de-Nage will release their new LP »Hidden Fires Burn Hottest« this Friday on The Flenser. The album is the group’s most fully realized work yet, precisely because it refuses to be pinned down.
8 years since the release of »Further Still«, an album built on constraint and economy, Bosse-de-Nage sought the opposite: sprawl, strangeness, fewer rules. Space for ideas to develop without rushing them. Dynamics that move through quiet as much as noise. Presence earned through atmosphere instead of volume. »Hidden Fires Burn Hottest« finds Bosse-de-Nage treating emotions like physical objects, feelings with spatial properties.
Photo by Bobby Cochran
Nothing on »Hidden Fires Burn Hottest« coheres into a theme. These are pieces pulled from low moments and private feelings made public through sound. The band has never been interested in positivity, in music that resolves cleanly or offers comfort. But bleakness doesn’t mean humorlessness. There’s something darkly funny running through much of it, even when it shouldn’t be.
»Hidden Fires Burn Hottest« was years in development and the long writing process offered time that most records don’t get. Time to live with ideas, revise endlessly, to let structures settle. For the first time, lyricist Bryan Manning wrote everything in advance, creating a surplus to pull from rather than working under deadline pressure. The difference shows. Manning comments on the latest single »Leviathan«, saying: “For years we believed this song to be cursed. We’ve been arranging and rearranging these riffs since the days of our album »All Fours«, but the results of our efforts never seemed to live up to the promise we saw in the components. We must have shelved four or five different iterations. Yet, something about these riffs kept drawing us back and in the studio everything finally seemed to come together like magic.”
Listen / share »Leviathan« HERE.
Bosse-de-Nage have been working with The Flenser for over fifteen years. They were one of the first bands the label ever partnered with and have the longest active relationship in the label’s history. But unlike most bands who build momentum through constant touring and visibility, Bosse-de-Nage has largely existed apart from the music world’s usual machinery. They’ve evolved on their own terms, in relative isolation, allowing the work to develop without outside pressure or influence. What began rooted in black metal anonymity has mutated into something that actively defies categorization. The aggression is still there, but it’s no longer the point.
»Hidden Fires Burn Hottest« doesn’t explain itself. It just insists: what you feel is as real as what you can see. Pre-order the album ahead of its March 6th release date here:
nowflensing.com | bosse-de-nage.bandcamp.com
Bosse-de-Nage live:
Apr 17 Tilburg, NL – Roadburn Festival
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well