0:01 Me eating an apple at night, trying to not wake up my wife

who else was here on this glorious day?

"Donny, these men are Nihilists."

"The ego writhes in a spasm of insight." Man, what a way to describe something.

Too late to explore the world, too early to explore the universe, but just on time to enjoy Mgla releases.

My body is ready for this overdose of nihilism

MGLA is one of the few bands that I can listen to the entire discography without skipping 1 single track! Black Metal at its best!

The opening sound is the most disgusting sound i have ever heard. I love it.

00:00 Age of Excuse I 07:29 Age of Excuse II 14:27 Age of Excuse III 20:43 Age of Excuse IV 26:19 Age of Excuse V 33:20 Age of Excuse VI

Wow, I don't deserve this for free... Their music is literally a luxury to my ears.

Damn Polish geniuses... Give those guys a fucking Nobel.

The band that taught a generation of metalheads worldwide how to pronounce Polish diacritics.

No preposterous marketing, no announcement a year in advance, just ART. Amazing, touching, powerful ART. I bow to you.

I never clicked so fast ..

Kurwa, takie brzmienie to ja szanuje, jesteście zajebiści.

Cant stop listening, I spent 140 dollars an all of their LPs and I can confidently say Mgla is my favorite band of all time.

I'm going to enjoy the shit out of this album tonight!

This is it, the one for 2019. Not Slipknot, not Tool....but Mgla. 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

Czesc. Siedze najebny o 12 rano i se slucham tego. Dobre disko.

A symphony of unabashed brutal, honest realism! Nothing watered down.

Unbelievable work on the drums and lyrics, as always. Few bands can make me boogie down and weep at the same time, but y'all got that magic touch.

That cymbal work is flawless

This album is so melodic, so dark, so authentic !

I almost feel guilty for being offered this for free, I'm not sure I deserve it

Who else literally got goosebumps when saw the notification and then ran to listen to this like an alienated? Never had a sacred time like this since Exercises in Futility.

HOLY SHIT THAT COVER ART!

“In this day and age; empires get wrecked. Principles get crushed. Saviors get crucified. History gets what? History fucking gets over it all.”

I have viewed and reviewed this. Studied the lyrics. I've come to the following conclusion: Love you guys. What a bleak view. All hails to Polska. I also have a little anecdote: When I had my journeyman exam, I made some critical mistakes on the workpiece and was within a hair's width of surrendering. The words " do you believe in victory, or do you hail defeat" came to mind and reinvigorated my doing to the effect of ending within the top 3 of my class. Thank you.

Aargh, it's 1 in the morning, I start work in 5 hours shovelling dirt. I should go to bed, but I have my priorities. Hail MGLA. EDIT Worth it

Doing dead-lifts while listening to Mgla is a blessing in the age of excuse!!!

Lyrics: I 00:00 A species had been armed with a double edged blade A guardless weapon of delusion Forged of a mirage of inherent transcendence In the tangled mechanisms of life itself As the curtain is being unraveled The ego writhes in a spasm of insight Delighted gods grunt like pigs At the mere notion of a raison d'etre From the gardens of Semiramis To the trenches of Ypres A meaningless uproar Sublime truths are revealed In the hammering of hobnailed jackboots And there's wisdom to be found In the shameful epitaphs of cowards From the gardens of Semiramis To the trenches of Ypres From the grounds of Comitium To the cellars of Tuol Sleng From the spores of presence And a swarm of pest Unto the ironies of being Falling hopes whip the ground Among laments of sunken millennia There are no paths to follow But a nightmare of endless repetition Those who peruse the annals of humanity Demanding patterns, connections, developments: Were there any to be found? And was it sapience indeed that kept pushing this broken cart? The wonders The misery The ascent The emptiness Falling hopes whip the ground Among laments of sunken millennia There are no paths to follow But a nightmare of endless repetition II 07:29 The stench of zeitgeist Is the incense of discarded shrines As the corpses put on powder and rouge So that the hoax can proceed, ever sidewards A cheaped out incarnation into a shopworn sarx The soul congeals into a grimy lump - Substance of the world, dreary and pale At the feet of a spirit detached Between the grinder and the abattoir Such are the landscapes of grief Grayness and glitz Glitter and gehinnom Between tedium and fright Such is the song of the nether world The hissing of rats And the jarring chants of angels A sacrifice to the gutter gods Squandered redemption, misplaced grace As an ailing mole burrowing in Eden Living breathing downfall Between the grinder and the abattoir Such are the landscapes of grief Grayness and glitz Glitter and gehinnom Between tedium and fright Such is the song of the nether world The hissing of rats And the jarring chants of angels It's a land of sun gone down In comical grandeur A sluggish danse macabre Hyenas waltzing about Would a new flood please finally come A real rain and an assortment of plagues And when all is said and done Even the Devil won't care enough to spit in the mud III 14:27 Out of howling of prophets And curses of the righteous In the ivory halls A new kind of champion is bred Herostrates for the modern day High on good conscience A noblest of sufferers On disinformation highway At the end of the day it's the same old script: Do you believe in victory or do you hail defeat Those finaglers of justice Expert wrights in deceit Carvers of the crooked timber And their finely tuned farce Proclaiming anger and rage Under the mortal threat it thrives At the end of the day it's the same old script: Do you believe in victory or do you hail defeat Ersatz revolt Ersatz rebellion For a new world would come Every once in a while "Purer", "brighter", "clearer", "better" And the last of misbelievers Will be trampled in the greatest of marches Toward the radiant future Where sheep are promised fangs And only after the graves are filled With remains of dissidents And the frame of reference is torched Together with forbidden thoughts Then, and only then The disciple is relieved The true believer has overcome the evils Of engineering of dissent At the bottom of things it's the same old script: Do you believe in victory or do you hail defeat Ersatz revolt Ersatz rebellion For a new world would come Every once in a while "Purer", "brighter", "clearer", "better" Ersatz purpose Ersatz alliance Ersatz ideals Ersatz communion IV 20:43 Ground zero of transgression: Whether ironic distance is true subversion As it is carved in the structure Of the system being opposed Therefore the language of the scourge Should be instilled in further discourse The language of strife and hunger In a state of relentless panic Henceforth the struggle takes form Of an absolute order, a total institution The clandestine laws of the night Should be exposed in broad daylight Mocked by many - known by the few The arsonists of perpetual aporia Acknowledge the presence of a sinister side That reaches far and wide beneath the surface Acknowledge that there are aspects of self Only to be revealed in burning, blinding hatred The blades shall be sharpened Upon gravestones of "kind" hearted The measures shall be chosen For maximum impact upon illusion of safety The ordnance which will tear Into the heart of daydream Shall become the testament Of the hopeless quest of prelest prophets Acknowledge healthy confusion, the dirt behind the reverie Unearth madness and probe into the absurd Deconstruct with no promise of a restore pattern And become free through the truth of the prelest prophets V 26:19 The gruesome caravan is crawling in circles Around pillars of cold grey light Pale horse is there, but the rider's away on business And the lion went roaring somewhere else It's a begging time for dissolution The commodity of ultimate silence on public display The living dead stare at the gaping void Waiting for the blade to finally come down Not just yet There's still innards to be ripped out And hanged between the sacred trees Bones to be broken, eyes to be plucked For the amusement of a drooling god Born again in a tidal wave of filth Amidst chants of suffocating angels An offering to a ravenous idol That'll take more pleasure in puking it out Gnawed and spat out Still good enough for lowbrow vultures Torn and led astray Fed scraps of hope until the banal end A bargain pilgrimage to the heart of darkness The stay got extended quite a good bit View is always the same: sorrow upon sorrow And the orchestra keeps playing same song on repeat A canticle arranged for gnashing of teeth Howling of hearts and cracking of spines And there's a hundred eager razors Underneath the conductor's suit Gnawed and spat out Still good enough for lowbrow vultures Torn and led astray Fed scraps of hope until the banal end In this rotten excuse for a world At the bottom of the dustbin of history Let's just try and pretend That our corpses still have some class The cold light The gaping void The final silence At the fingertips The cold light The gaping void The broken cycle Not just yet VI 33:20 Forever uphill atop the remains Of missed chances, of hope and innocence The withered bones of those who failed But more so of those who didn't even try Bursting through the barbed thickets Sharp with guilt, deceit and shame To the petty truths buried underneath Layers and layers of drivel and mud In this day and age The litanies of overskurkens moral Are the only prayers to be heard these days And all those who dreamt about a True Revolution Got distracted by hurting each other What has to be done, has to be done The human nature is what it is We cover our eyes in a call to arms And turn one edge toward ourselves Arm in arm in this futile strife Where cards are marked and odds are little to none Hand in hand with fate worse than death Relentless in discontent In this day and age Empires get wrecked Principles get crushed Saviors get crucified History gets what? History fucking gets over it all And the assassins in rose tinted glasses At the wrong end of the tunnel of light Practitioners of paramount scorn And those who'd rig moral compass rather than bridges Behold the world and spit on it The noble and the scum of the earth Just out of some basic damned dignity In this day and age of excuse What has to be done, has to be done The human nature is what it is We cover our eyes in a call to arms And turn one edge toward ourselves Arm in arm in this futile strife Where cards are marked and odds are little to none Hand in hand with fate worse than death Relentless in discontent What has to be done, has to be done The human nature is what it is We cover our eyes in a call to arms And turn one edge toward ourselves

each album of Mgla is a masterpiece.

Age of Excuse III is probably one of their best songs. Amazing riffs.

Love the move they pulled with the cover on this one! Showing us only part of it with the song they released and now being able to see the full picture, sorta speak, there is so much more. Bravo!

Best lyrics i've ever read in a metal band

I can "literally" listen to Age of Excuse II all day on loop... What a masterpiece!!!

Darkside's drumming is enough reason for me to listen to this masterpiece over and over again)

I would rate this album a modest 11 points out of 10.

This is my very first own black metal record. My cousin, who got me into the genre, gave it to me as a gift. One of the ebst gifts I've ever received.

Sorry PornHub but Mgła has new album out

Riffs cleave, like a two-edged blade.

I'm a native American from Albuquerque NM. Love the band, hopefully they come too our city for a live show.

It literally got colder in Cracow the day Mgła released this masterpiece.

Mgła wjeżdża na salony bez zapowiedzi i dominuje na następne kilka lat, a Krysiuk dalej zgłębia tajniki marketingu

That teeth gnashing at the very beginning...

Possibly one of the best Black Metal albums of all time. Don't question my credibility. I am Norwegian

*Words can't describe how much I love this album. 37K+ minutes of listening..*

No i pozamiatali chłopcy. Świat patrzy, slucha i zbiera szczeny.

Forgot my headphones at home today (first time in the whole damn year). 30 minutes later I got this album notification. This kind of events can drive a man insane. I barely survived the next 10 hours.

This is one of the finest black metal albums ever!

it's no longer "just a beat" this guy makes melody with those drums

My favorite track is "Age of Excuse"

Yup, weather forecast for today: MGŁA.

3 am on my bed. Headbanging to Age of excuse. Holy fuck. What an album. I picked it up little late. Sick album . Driving me nuts

The riff that hits at 16:40 on track 3, Jesus fucking Christ. Probably my favorite on the album. The teeth gnashing...

Holy shit. What a glorious day today is

Roses are Bleak Violets are too I already ordered this masterpiece and so should you!!!

I think one of the best and most unique Black Metal records of the last decade. Great drumworks on the bells and cymbals, great shredding, catchy hooklines and last but not least, it has a Bass ;-)

20 years listening black metal..., this is real black metal and it is so refreshing

One of the best things that I've heard since the "yes" from my wife.

Jak zwykle pozdrowienia z gór ! Czysta brudna prawda ! Zalejcie czernią świat !

how many cymbals and arms did Darkside grow since last album

Mgła sounds is like first love.

I woke up expecting a normal day... This will definitely be another chapter in the handbook...

Don't mind me, just leaving a comment on the day of the release for my kid to see one day. :)

I was never really into black metal out all of my years of being a metalhead. I mean... I've liked a few black metal songs before but not like this. A few months ago I was listening to one of the black metal songs, and then KZfaq Music automatically started playing Exercises in Futility V and I instantly fell in love. It sent me on a black metal rabbithole adventure. I discovered amazing black metal bands such as Grima and Uada just to name a few. All of MGLA's albums are amazing from start to finish and i never get bored.

I had lost interest in modern BM many moons ago but always check in from time to time. Mgla's "With hearts towards none" is by far one of the greatest black metal albums ever and one I still routinely come back to. I admit I wasn't AS impressed with their releases after, I just felt "with hearts" set a bar so high that it would be near impossible to ever reach again.... Well I am so happy to be wrong and to come back to discover this masterpiece. I have been waiting for this album since WHTN and I had a feeling deep down Mgla had it in them to pull it off... So happy. Incredible musicians, artist and performers... I will always believe Mgla is the evolution of BM, a perfection of a craft that has been... copied to death but rarely executed uniquely since the early second wave.

Now it's time to accept that Mgla is one of the best (Black) Metal bands of all time. They know they're in a new epoch, they criticize the modern humanity and they knew perfectly how to evolve from the message to the sound to become a style, a new way to create pure and epic Black Metal. They're geniuses, and I'm glad I'm alive in their time.

What a time to be alive ! One of the very few meaningfull sources of vitality for the spirit: Mgła ! Curious, paradoxal even, as these hollow and barren soundscapes fill up our hearts with contentment. Hail, my brothers and sisters in this empty existence.

This is one of the best metal (not only black metal) albums I have ever heard! The feeling in the last 5 minutes especially... that was phenomenal! Mgla are the evidence that quality still exists in black metal!

I am not a metal expert, but this guys are really something else. Great vocals

Mgla is one of the best Black Metal bands from all over the world. Impressive grim, epic & melodic Dark Art they create...

Wybitny album... Tak jak każdy poprzedni.

Guys, if You didn't hear, check out last years ODRAZA- RZECZOM, also great, Polish Black Metal! 🤘

It gets better with every listen.

best album of the year. you can't change my mind.

Inject this album straight into my veins.

finally, a drummer like no one usual black-metal drummers...

Great black metal from Poland !!! \,,,/

And never change Your style... Hail Mgła

Every song is a 10/10 mgla topped themselves again i can‘t believe it

The best polish bm-band!!!!

It's funny because human theatre is so much tragic but absurd at the same time: these guys represent it so well.

Summer is gone and Mgła is back. Now we are talking!

Im really happy then im living today, all hails to the best Black Metal band of all time!!!

Entranced from the word go. The riffs are cold and razor sharp.

To jest Metalowy czad na najwyższym światowym poziomie. Ten krążek jest po prostu wykurwisty że się tak nie ładnie wyrażę. Mgła prezentujecie zajebiste Metalowe granie dla mnie rewelacja pozdrawiam.Jako fan Metalowego łojenia chciałbym mieć ten album na swojej półce do kolekcji z innymi płytami. Dajecie czadu jesteście świetnym Metalowym zespołem. Dzięki takim zespołom jak Mgła jestem dumny że słucham Polskiego Metalu.

I've been a fan of BM since 1997 and have mostly restricted myself to only listening to BM bands that came from that time period. Discovering Mgla (along with Xasthur and Leviathan) in 2022 gives me the same feelings I got when discovering Mayhem and Emperor back in 97 at 13 years old for the first time. I don't know why I've been so reluctant to listen to BM bands that came after 2000 but better late than never I guess (I have a lot of catching up to do lol). I've got other stuff I want to do right now but I can't bring myself to hit the stop button. I'm fucking 13 again right now and its such a strange sensation. I fucking love it. Hail Mgla \m/

New cure for my depression has been found. Thank you.

"There are no paths to follow But a nightmare of endless repetition"

The cymbal work on Age of Excuse I is unreal

there i am again! colossal respects from turkey, mgła is one of my favourite bands...

Saw them this week. Completely out of this world. Excellent facial expressions and interaction too ...

when you look dictionary for "perfection" it means Mgla! just amazing

Each song is special and exquisite, but Age of Excuse VI is pure magic, angry Black Metal with the power of Classical music. Unforgettable riffing.

Piękne podsumowanie ludzkości - bezmyślne stado baranów prących na oślep ku zagładzie... Super okładka! Po pierwszym odsłuchu, muzyka i teksty też! 😎

I bought this on No Solace before coming here to listen to it. Mgła never disappoints.

Age of Excuse III - masterpiece. Only creative minds could come up with such divinity. Hail Mgla

"Arm in arm in this futile strife Where cards are marked and odds are little to none Hand in hand with fate worse than death Relentless in discontent" These lines just hits different man. Fuck hope and godspeed.

Just what we needed. Something to give meaning to our existence.