Belgian doom metal band AKEM MANAH have released a lyric video for "The Burning of John Briggs", the second single from their forthcoming full-length album "Threnodies", due out on April 3 via Black Lion Records. Following the harrowing introduction set by debut single "The End of Earnest Hollow", the new track dives deeper into the band’s bleak and ritualistic sonic mythology.
Carried by crushing doom riffs, scorched atmospheres and a funereal sense of inevitability, the track embodies the band’s talent for transforming narrative despair into monolithic heaviness. Watch and listen here:
Akem Manah - The Burning of John Briggs (Official Lyric Video) 2026 | Black Lion Records
The band comments on the track: "A carnival strongman consumed by conviction and guilt, John Briggs mistakes the apocalypse for revival. What begins as religious fervour becomes a carnival of fire and delirium. The track is fevered, portraying faith’s final transformation into spectacle and ash".