Belgian doom metal monoliths AKEM MANAH have announced their forthcoming full-length album, "Threnodies", due for release on April 3 via Black Lion Records. Alongside the announcement, the band has unveiled the first single, "The End of Earnest Hollow", offering an intense and unsettling first glimpse into the sonic abyss that awaits. The track is accompanied by a lyric video, which you can watch here:
Akem Manah - The End of Earnest Hollow (Official Lyric Video) 2026 | Black Lion Records
AKEM MANAH’s new album "Threnodies" is a cycle of human unraveling in ten dirges for those who sought the truth behind the world and found only the abyssal chaos staring back. Each song recounts a different descent into forbidden knowledge, madness and death of men and women who, out of grief, faith, or hunger for meaning, reached too far into the Mythos. Their stories are not about monsters but about the human need to see beyond the illusion of order, and the silence that answers.
Musically, "Threnodies" draws from doom and black metal’s bleak cadence, but with an overt horror tone. A lament sung from within the void rather than against it. Every track is a threnody in the ancient sense, namely a song for the dead, and for what in us dies when we understand too much.