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On April 24th, Indonesian Black Metal band PURE WRATH will unleash their fourth album “Bleak Days Ahead“. Building wonderfully upon the panoramic and poignant melodies of 2022’s wounded “Hymn to the Woeful Hearts“, mastermind Ryo and drummer Yurii Ciel (CAILLEACH CALLING, ex-WHITE WARD) have dialled back the cinematics and upped the dynamics – allowing a varied sound palette including organ, mellotron, throat singing, piano and saxophone to express the sadness in high-functioning depression and the suffocating routines of modern life.

To underscore this, PURE WRATH now unveil the album’s second single, ‘Haven of Echoes‘, accompanied by a haunting video:

Forewords sung by Dany Tee (LOS MALES DEL MUNDO, THE LEAVING, ACATHEXIS).
Moving images by Jaka Sadewo, Yurii Ciel, Dimas Tirta Arwana, and Januaryo Hardy.
Assembled by Dimas Tirta Arwana.

Ryo comments on the song and video:

“I try portray the daily routine in a highly industrialized world, where humans become instruments of production, detached from their own earthly existence. Machine, human, and polluted nature intertwine, forming a symbolic chaos where life slowly dissolves. Even in moments of rest, surrounded by comfort and familiar sounds, there is no true pause, only the quiet weight of a system that consumes you and turns you into part of its output. To visualize this, Yurii and I recorded footage in an unusual way. Jaka captured my face as the message bearer, and everything was later manipulated and seamlessly combined with found footage by Dimas.

This particular song also has an unusual composition for PURE WRATH. I wrote the riffs differently, changed the way I approach certain chords, manufactured noises by scratching guitar strings, and it is probably the slowest song in our catalogue. Crafted during those flawless witching hours, when I ignored my body’s craving for rest. It serves as a perfect opening for the B-side of the album, where the forewords are violently delivered by Dany Tee over the calming ghost notes performed by Yurii. The song then builds into its main character and concludes with a heavy, low, down-below, sludge-like passage.“

For deeper immersion into the spellbinding sonics of PURE WRATH, check out first single ‘Spectral Insomnia‘ – also with an accompanying video – here:

Find all album details for “Bleak Days Ahead” here and follow PURE WRATH on Facebook and Instagram for updates!

“Bleak Days Ahead” will be released on CD and vinyl – including an exclusive DMP vinyl version – alongside an exclusive t-shirt, on April 24th. Pre-orders are possible via DMP’s EU, US and Bandcamp shops.

Indonesian band PURE WRATH began in mid-2014 as the solo primitive Black Metal project of multi-instrumentalist Ryo. In 2016, Ryo began to shift the lyrical and thematic content of PURE WRATH towards his own life and family history. This paradigm-shift resulted in 2017 debut record, “Ascetic Eventide”, released via Indonesian label Hitam Kelam Records andselling out within four months.

Following the debut’s success, Ryo was contacted by Mexican label Throats Productions for the vinyl re-release of “Ascetic Eventide”. Soon after, “Endless Journey”, a split release between PURE WRATH and French symphonic black metal project ONIRISM was issued at the end of 2017.

In mid-2018, Ryo began writing what would become the second PURE WRATH album, “Sempiternal Wisdom”. It was released in October 2018 through Pest Productions in China and Hitam Kelam Records in Indonesia.

In 2019, Ryo readied PURE WRATH for live performances and created new EP “The Forlorn Soldier”. Released in 2020 via new label Debemur Morti Productions, the EP featured Yurii Ciiel (ex-WHITE WARD) as a session drummer and served as a bridge to the next PURE WRATH full-length. “Hymn To The Woeful Hearts”, the band’s critically acclaimed, next-level third album, was unleashed by DMP in February 2022.

After an intense period composing new material and performing select live shows across Asia, PURE WRATH entered the studio in September 2025 to record new album “Bleak Days Ahead”. For the first time, mastermind Ryo and drummer Yurii were able to record together in person in Bekasi, Indonesia. Further heightening anticipation for this new work, in January 2025 PURE WRATH unveiled a standalone digital composition ‘Flowers And Walls’ – a compelling rendition of Wiji Thukul’s poem “Bunga dan Tembok”. “Bleak Days Ahead” will be released on April 24th, 2026.