Belgian doom metal monoliths Akem Manah have announced their forthcoming full-length studio album, “Threnodies”, due for release on April 3rd, 2026, 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 below.
Akem Manah’s new studio 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.
The album was edited, mixed and mastered by Brett Caldas-Lima at Tower Studio and is available for pre-order here.
Tracklist:
1. The Inevitable Fate of Francis Cobb (Intro)
2. The End of Earnest Hollow
3. The Mystery of Mosef Mehul
4. The Burning of John Briggs
5. The Journey of Nathaniel Johnson
6. The Undoing of an Unknown (Interlude)
7. The Fall of Maximillian Montagne
8. The Sleep of Eve Saldana
9. The Demise of John Dunn
10. The Hanging of Edward Hope (Outro)
“Threnodies” balances suffocating doom riffs, blackened atmospheres and ritualistic pacing, forging a sound that feels less like a confrontation and more like a slow submission. “The End of Earnest Hollow” exemplifies this approach: vast and oppressive, it lingers long after the final note fades.
Line-up:
RD – Bass guitar
GVC – Rhythm guitar
JT – Lead guitar
XDS – Guitars, keyboards, vocals
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