Photo credits: Necrohorns
Five years after the acclaimed “Paradeigma (Phosphenes of Aphotic Eternity)“, Czech pioneers INFERNO return with a new work of unorthodox, avant-garde Black Metal. The band’s 9th album, “The Anthropic Sophisms (On the Heights of Despair)“, presents four abyssal epics in which subliminal horrors creep and envelop, with hypnotic riffs intertwining to create fields of pressure.
Mixed by Tim De Gieter (AMENRA, TREHA SEKTORI) and mastered by James Plotkin (KHANATE, THOU), this electrifying work now receives a full premiere on DMP’s YouTube channel, eight days before official release.
INFERNO offer ideas for how best to experience “The Anthropic Sophisms“:
“We propose an experiment. Drown yourselves in the sound, feel the vibrations with your bones and guts, sink into and be absorbed by that which cares not about you, yet it can devour you whole. Born out of the loss of paradise, the music gives birth to the symbols of this loss, and for a fleeting moment the ego may be allowed to merge with the universe or at least with the inwardness of your being by destroying everything in the soul, except for the infinite ‘Sehnsucht’ in which pleasure with dread arise and pass.“
To immerse yourself even deeper into INFERNO‘s universe, visual artist Fabio Rincones (SELBST) has created mesmerizing videos for the songs ‘With Raving Mouths They Utter Things Mirthless, Unadorned and Unperfumed‘ and ‘Circulus Vitiosus Deus (The Infinity Ravages All)‘.
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“The Anthropic Sophisms” will be released on CD, vinyl and digital on July 17th. A specially designed t-shirt and zip-hoodie accompanies the release. Orders are possible via DMP’s EU, US and Bandcamp shops.
INFERNO are currently confirmed to play the following shows, with more soon to be announced:
05–06.09.2026 – Tynebound Festival, Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)
23–24.10.2026 – Summoning Of Darkness Festival, Stockholm – Slaktkyrkan & Hus7 (SWE)
14–16.01.2027 – Heart Of Winter Festival MMXXVII, Richmond/Virginia (US)
INFERNO came into existence 1995 in the Czech Republic, with first demo offerings “Peklo Na Zemi” (1996) and “Temná Poselství Dávných Předků” (1997) gaining significant acclaim in the Czech scene and beyond, opening many possibilities within the Black Metal underground.
Following a number of successful split releases, in the first decade of the new millennium INFERNO recorded two full-length albums of defiant and warlike Black Metal – “Duch slovanské síly” (2001) and “V návratu pohanství…” (2003) – the raw and ominous “Nikdy nepokřtěni” (2006) and concluded this period of rabid Black Metal traditionalism with “Uctívání temné zuřivosti” (2008) which merged old currents into a more refined offering, aggressive yet triumphantly melodic.
The release of pivotal album “Black Devotion” (2009) reshaped and regenerated the creative forces within the band. INFERNO subsequently entered Necromorbus Studio to create the cacophonic and malevolent “Omniabsence Filled By His Greatness” (2013) another step-up which imbued band-members with the will to transcend their previous self-imposed limitations.
In the following years, INFERNO performed on prominent stages around the world, securing a reputation for being a savage and mystical live act. Dedicated to self-transformation and unconscious dialogue with the great other, the monumental and idiosyncratic “Gnosis Kardias (Of Transcension and Involution)” (2017) helped redefine contemporary Black Metal Art.
In 2021, INFERNO unveiled their most transcendent and dynamic work to-date, “PARADEIGMA (Phosphenes Of Aphotic Eternity)“, through Debemur Morti Productions. In the ensuing years, the band carried this singular vision onto stages across the globe, refining its intensity in the live realm while restlessly shaping new material in parallel. “The Anthropic Sophisms (On the Heights of Despair)” – an electrifying, hypnotic & profound 9th album from these Czech avant-Black Metal voyagers – will be released on 17th June 2026.
INFERNO is: Adramelech, Ska-Gul, Morion, Sheafraidh, Matron Thorn & Spící hrdlo Antikrista
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