I have exclusive inside information that the drummer is actually a giant octopus

For all those who are trying to understand what is going on at 3:25 - 5:10 splash part, Darkside is playing 2/4 with his feet, 3/4 at left hand, 4/4 right hand. I was near to suffer a cerebral stroke trying to get it. Youre welcome.

Mgla's evil twin.

The drummer is eating music theory with his breakfast, and practicing during his sleep hour.

In case anyone else was wondering Spoken word sample from "The Other Death" is taken from this audiobook: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sN6iZ7Kq1dC0h2g.html The quote is: "The Bible speaks of a mysterious sin for which there is no forgiveness. I have never understood what it could be; but now I understand. The great, unpardonable sin is to murder the love-life in a human soul... You have done that”

Everyone talks about Darkside (fully deserved praise, of course) but forget the genius who composes the music, Mikolaj

It should be on UNESCO list.

Darkside truly is one of the most creative, interesting and diverse drummers in Black Metal. Great to see a new Kriegsmaschine album!

Drumming is insane, Darkside is one of the most enjoyable drummers in nowadays black metal

the drums, holy mother, the drums!

Thousands of people want to hear this live. Remember that.

Drums are insane! Not only technically, but in a creative way too. That's so rare in black metal drumming. Very nice. I even thought this was DRUM album, other instruments were just fillers.

Darkside is insane drummer. Fantastic band. Hail from Czech Republic 🤘🤘🤘

hellhammer is sobbing quietly

I had no idea the new Kriegsmaschine would be released today. A welcome surprise!

It's absolutely stupid... How good Darkside is.

Residual Blight 00:00 I alone have known all shades of the horror. I am the pit without sun, where blind beasts dwell. I am the revenant at the very bottom of the source. Never to grow weary. Running on doubt. Dead thoughts, dead movements, dead ideals, dead desires. Beneath this world there is another, built of bone and decay. Grey hell. Dry. Motionless. Upon even rows of downfall. Methodized loss. Inherent ruin. Residual blight. For these gates need to be opened. For this shell needs to be broken. Ether guerilla. All hail the alpha fallen. Dead words, dead drives, dead passions, dead urges, dead dreams. As the world above is shrinking, the one below thrives. Cinder springs. Ashen horizon. The sarcastic grinning of gargoyles. The refuge among scattered remains. The temples of iron and concrete. The great death. The silence. The roaring depths of insight. The maze of severance. The golden throne, abandoned. The agony. The strife. The penance. I alone have known all shades of the horror. I alone have seen the rays of lost grace. Residual blight. A sunless pit to crawl in. Ether guerilla. All hail the alpha fallen. . The Pallid Scourge 07:22 He'd cut himself open. Plant the seeds of plague within. Wear a scripture of scars. Caress the acerbic gangrene. Build on decay. Grow upon failure. Absorb rot. Devour corruption. Feed on ruin. Crawl through the pits. Gaze into gray skies. Swallow the ashen ardor. Tear off the eyelids. Peel the skin away. Coil his limbs into a breathing sculpture. He would become the pallid scourge. Court offender in service of loss. The herald of doom comes in silence. His presence revealed in trembling of history. He would rise a new temple. Paint its walls with refined filth. Burn bricks off crushed lives. Pave the road with lost forgiveness. The herald of doom comes without fanfare. The ashes of empires beneath his feet. Bones of the fallen pulverized to dust. Joined together with spit of the virtuous. Hardened in boiling bile of the holy men. Immersed in the unknown. Tempered in a haze of sulphurous fumes. He would bleed all over this stone. The herald of doom comes with a promise. The true believer craves change. He would cast away his light and his shadow. He would become one with the pallid scourge. 3. Lost in Liminal 15:13 A temporary descent into the depths of the underworld ends up an odyssey through pale Gehinnom. Detached and stray, adrift, frail. No fire to flicker. No shadows to grow. Rite of passage gone wrong. Lost in liminal. Warped patterns. Fractured truths. No shores in sight. No trail ahead. In radiance of a broken prism. Led through scorched earth. Forever in friction. Without purpose. No-way there. No other world and no other truth. No other aim and no other path. No other will and no other fall. No other mind. No other heart. A blind communion. A dirge for the ego. Lost in liminal. 4. Apocalypticists 22:32 Consciousness reworked. Sequences shifted. Thought crystallized. Dark veil risen. Whom seek to liberate. Whom seek the inmost truth. Whom entered the path and stumbled. One hell of epiphany. Delirium, and inherent discontent and hunger. An anchorite immured within cursing stones and their discordant chant. An offering refused. Nothing ecstatic about this truth and even gods have deserted. No one will be awaken. No one will be released. And those spastic wriggles of a semazen, desperate with the notion of a flat-lined thought. No one will be awaken. No one will be released. Revelato. An abode of distress. A resonant blasphemy. A constellation of black holes. A clay ratio. Another turn of the wheel of deconstruction. This particular mind has specialized in howling. No one will be awaken. No one will be released. 5. The Other Death 29:46 My prophecy is a nightmare. My path is a like a hedge of thorns. On to the burning wastes. On to the great rift. To harvest the bitter fruit and drink from the barren springs. My land is roamed by worms. My teeth is gnashing. A shrine of flesh that had risen. A mind that sparked above the stars. Scorched in the consuming fire in the forges of the nether god. Towards the noumenon. Deprived of both a body and the mind that animates it, the soul is petrified in a monstrous satori. It is hermeticism of the abyss that has trampled it into a blunt instrument of enlightenment. Towards the noumenon. Towards apocalypse. A lifetime of unquenchable thirst and ravenous hunger has carved out an devouring automata. Destroyed by the bitterness of its grievous and long-protracted punishment. My cup runneth dry. My house is divided. On to the burning wastes. On to the great rift. A vast network of fractures. The forecourts of Sheol. The night is as a garment. The face has been obscured. Apex prelest. Conscious nothing. Axis damni. Embers of pneuma. Disunity. Estrangement. The cruelty of the other death. 6. On the Essence of Transformation 41:07 This is the nexus of perdition. This is the core of the fall. Worked out arduously in fear, trembling and fever. The body wrecked. The mind shattered. The soul destroyed. Ripe for apocalypse. And everything that constituted yourself, all the things you've done and those you could have. The joyous memories, the warmth and the calm. The silly thought that one day a change would come. The naive adolescence, off track with its dreams, but in the end - harmless and innocent. The anecdotes, and digressions and pauses. Those moments of bliss atop the green hills. The illusion of belief, justification and truth. All those things you've learned for later, for another life. And every word that could be spoken, every thought that could be born and all that could have been is now no more.

if there is a kreigsmashine album you know what other band is going to release new music. THE FOG IS COMING

Mgla and kriegsmaschine appearing on Spotify in couple of days. New mgla album in 2019. New kriegsmaschine album today. Awesome

The drummer must have octopus ancestory! Absolutely incredible.

This has all the dark, cold evilness of black metal fused with the sheer inventiveness and groove of the best of what math rock/metal has to offer. Very interesting mix. Not very often bands can hold onto that dark atmosphere when they go super complex and technical.

this is what happens when an awesome drummer forgets how awesome he is, and decides to push himself Beyond his limitations. killer stuff, the most technical and creative drumming i've heard in decades!

This is the most interesting and creative drumming I ever listened to on black metal genre. This is REALLY special! And all the music is awesome.

Darkside must be an 8 handed demon from the Abyss... I can't imagine how he can make such complex sounds. Hail Kriegsmaschine! Hail Mgla!

“I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.” ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

MGLA brought me here... And by that fact, I knew I was walking into glory.

Masterful drumming and enigmatic riffing.

"The Bible speaks of a mysterious sin for which there is no forgiveness. I have never understood what it could be, but now I understand. The great, unpardonable sin is to murder the love life in a human soul. You have done that. " The cruelty of the other death.

darkside never disappoints

Now you will experience full power of the Darkside

Out of nothing back with this record. A few spins already in and I`m longing for more. And new Mgla scheduled for 2019. Fantastic news!

At 39:55 the song is practically over, right? And here comes some bloke and says "Ψυχή, δεν έχω άλλο πια"(A Soul, I have no more) in your native language, in the middle of the night. Great, now I'm sober again thanksalot.

This LP is proof that legitimate Black Metal records needn't be recorded with a button microphone lodged deep in the arsehole of a demon goat... this sounds full & heavy & has dynamic range. You can actually HEAR them playing.

This album drops and Metal-Archives goes down..... so this is the power of Darkside?

Truly excellent. The drumming is outstanding. A hypnotic blur. The darkest form of trance music.

Im only 30 seconds in and I already know that Im buying it. Last album was gold!

Drums are out of this world! You can't just pick a track, the whole album is perfect.

After "Age of Excuse" maybe it's time to think about another Kriegsmaschine. I miss your new music. The Apocalypticists shirt is amazing!

Thanks "No Solace" and of course "Kriegsmaschine" you have a new customer!

Yesterday I talked about Mgla and Kriegsmaschine with a friend. And that they need to release new music. Here we go! Edit: Very good album so far! Big support from Germany.

"The other death" is just perfection!

15.700+ views in 1 day - wtf??! NEVER heard this band before now, this is insanely good! My morning just became alot darker. Perfect.

It’s fucking incredible that they dropped this Masterpiece right after Exercises and just a year before Age of excuse. These men are next level

Album of the Year 2018

I like how guitar and drums are so different. One is liquid in layers the other is... Well, the drummer is genius. They definitely had some fun creating this masterpiece.

Lost in liminal is a hypnotizing experience, beautiful drumming 38/10 for sure

How a normal acid trip turned into an interesting trip. This album, couldn't be any more perfect. Loved it.

This band have darker riffs than Mgla... holy shit!!! Just, awesome work! Truly masterpiece.

I have this on the cassette.

Omg ... First time I'm hearing this band. I've been Missing out

AHHHH. I finally hear some intresting drums in the scene since Sound of Perseverance.

Please re-release this masterpiece on vinyl!!!! I NEED THIS! And my neighbours too ;-) :-D

I like that each album is a little different with Kriegsmaschine, altered states was pretty raw and straightforward, enemy of man a bit more modern and this one is more trancelike... the drumming is again the cherry on top for me.

The drummer must be a madman!!! that part at not even 4 minutes sounds very technical, regardless of how it may be played.

this on repeat since it came out! absolute masterpiece

Damn I'm digging this. Groovy and hypnotic!

Outstanding songwriting , outstanding drumming , outstanding everything ! Ich habe keine Seele mehr !

3:24 - how, Darkside, how?

Months after release and I'm still obsessively listening to this album.

addicted to this album

I alone have known all shades of the horror I am the pit without sun, where blind beasts dwell I am the revenant at the very bottom of the source Never to grow weary, running on doubt Dead thoughts, dead movements, dead ideals, dead desires Beneath this world there is another, built of bone and decay Grey hell, dry, motionless Upon even rows of downfall, methodized loss Inherent ruin, residual blight For these gates need to be opened, for this shell needs to be broken Ether guerilla, all hail the alpha fallen Dead words, dead drives, dead passions, dead urges, dead dreams As the world above is shrinking, the one below thrives Cinder springs, ashen horizon The sarcastic grinning of gargoyles The refuge among scattered remains The temples of iron and concrete, the great death The silence The roaring depths of insight The maze of severance The golden throne, abandoned The agony, the strife, the penance I alone have known all shades of the horror I alone have seen the rays of lost grace Residual blight, a sunless pit to crawl in Ether guerilla, all hail the alpha fallen

The transition of the other death into on the essence of transformation 👌

to jest jak wpierdolic chleb ze smalcem i ogorkiem

Darkside, jak ty mnie zaimponowałeś w tej chwili!

I cant stop listening to this. the whole album has such a mean black metal groove to it

every bit of this masterpiece is brilliant...every bit.

Darkside is the best drummer in last 20 years for me

Clearly, Darkside has sprouted a few extra limbs over the past couple of years. It's the only plausible explanation...

Death as a "state" of non existence was never a painful idear to me, until now.. nicely done Kriegsmaschine bravo!

Yesterday morning I was like ah let's listen to some good "old" krieg, havent heard that one in a while and boom next thing a new album came out, I think not more then a hour later. Supriseeeee and it was and still is a very very pleasant suprise! those drumssssssss 🤤🤤🤤🤤

wow my friend jerome recommended this...what a great recommendation!

Darkside is doing the job of 2 multitasking people, insane duo ❤️‍🔥

The Drum-Rythm in the first Song reminds me of a heartbeat. Relentless.

Always increasing the level. Can't wait for my copy.

Holy shit. I have been checking the metal archives incessantly for word on a new Kriegsmaschine album and now this drops out of nowhere. My week is made \m/

drums amazing! tnx a lot!!

I just discovered this band about 1 week ago. Great timing.

This band is fuckin' HUGE! The way they play black metal is simply brilliant! WELCOME BACK!

O KURWA! This is awesome, as per the usual course for you guys!

Those misanthropes are great!

WOW! best BM I've heard since Mgla's latest. Amazing drumming !

Simply put. This record is a masterpiece.

Complex and merciless material, I love it.

Album of the year.

Can be found on spotify now! Both Mgla and KSM...Mint!

Labyrinthic, mesmerizing... Strange gloomy dreams may come after listening to this masterpiece.

Kommt nicht oft vor einen derart überraschenden Sound im BM zu finden, muss ich mir unbedingt zulegen !

O KURWA

A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one

they've just made my year

Very excited to listen to this, you guys have yet to disappoint!

Drummer have 3 arms?

Simply Outstanding

Oscuro, hipnótico, no los había escuchado nunca y estoy enganchado aquí con los cascos q no me los puedo quitarrrrrrrr de lo buenos que son

It was about fucking time we listened to something of substance again.

3:24 My heart when i can't feel my keys in my pocket

I need the same stuff the drummer swallows before he starts playing. Insane!

The spoken word transition from The Other Death into On The Essence Of Transformation is one of the most powerful musical moments I ever experienced, and it's more of a recitation than music. Can anybody provide a transcription, please? I'm not sure how many languages I hear, there's Greek, Russian, German...

Very good style! And the drummer. Very good shit. They sound awesome.

nice drum work