Swiss experimental black/doom metal duo Death. Void. Terror. announce new album »To The Great Monolith III: Rifts« and premiere first single!
Zürich, Switzerland based experimental black/doom metal duo Death. Void. Terror. has announced their long-awaited third full-length album, »To The Great Monolith III: Rifts«, set to release on September 25th, 2026 via Sentient Ruin Laboratories.
Listen to the album’s first single »V. (– —) Daphnyr« below!
Tracklist:
01. I. (– — – — -) Gözdyrey
02. II. (- — – –) Ids Elrekis Frakhetir
03. III. (— — -) Asgadon Odewäl
04. IV. ( – – –) Flukhetor
05. V. (– —) Daphnyr
Courtesy of Sentient Ruin Laboratories:
Swiss experimental black metal cult announce long-awaited third full-length album – track premiered at No Clean Singing!
Sentient Ruin is proud and honored to announce that Death. Void. Terror. continue their marvelous aural transfiguration. »To The Great Monolith III: Rifts« is the band’s first full-length utterance of the Monolith in five years, and its most shattering revelation yet.
The mesmerizing upcoming new album follows the recent precursor EP »To The Great Monolith 2.5« released just last month, and has now been anticipated by expert extreme metal outlet No Clean Singing, who in premiering the closing track »V. (– —) Daphnyr« have remarked how the work is “a kaleidoscopic experience, a shapeshifter in itself that continues to reveal the metamorphosis of the band’s music since their last album” – you can check out the feature and listen to the song HERE.
»To The Great Monolith III: Rifts« is a seismic convergence of primordial trance and awakened consciousness, tearing open the boundaries of improvisation to expose the essence of catharsis. The rift is both metaphor and confession: a fracture in doctrine, a deliberate wound inflicted upon orthodoxy by the practitioners themselves, as conscious composition enters the sacred architecture for the first time, insurgent and unapologetic. Pulsing bass lines consciously sculpted, and around them, the instinctual maelstrom, constructing vortices of the inner chaos. A perceived heresy that in truth signals only deeper initiation. What pours through the rift is devastating. Abyssal, chaos-wielding atmospheric black/death metal mutated into ecstatic occult rock and tribal hallucinatory sprawl. The specter of the ancient ones running through gorges and dissolving into monolithic darkness, transfigured beyond recognition yet more itself than ever. Vocals conjured in no known tongue, surrendered without will to the Monolith in liturgical precision. A sonic entity shedding skin, growing new flesh, irrigated by ritual and animated by an internal battle between instinct and will, trance and reflection, doctrine and heresy. On its surface, a rift captured and made literal. In its depths, an existential fracture splitting open five years of metamorphosis and unleashing its monstrous sonic deluge. The Great Monolith does not crumble, it ruptures, expands, and devours anew. DVT’s most monumental and revelatory work to date.
»To The Great Monolith III: Rifts« is slated for a September 25 2026 release on LP, CD, cassette and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin, all of which are now pre-orderable via all our channels.
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