Acclaimed post-doom artist The Devil’s Trade has today announced his new studio album “Nincs Szennyezetlen Szép”, to be released on November 7th, 2025, via Pelagic Records.
In celebration of the news, the first single “Weltschmerz” has been unveiled.
Watch the video for the new single “Weltschmerz” below.
The Devil’s Trade comment on “Weltschmerz”: “The word ‘weltschmerz’ is much more than just ‘world-pain’ – it is a mood of weariness, sadness, or melancholy about life, rooted in an acute awareness of the world’s evil and suffering. It can be understood as a deep sadness about the insufficiency or cruelty of the world and the gap between ideal expectations and harsh realities. It signifies a sorrow one might feel and accept as part of life, carrying elements of pessimism and a melancholic view about existence and the human condition. The song is about all the sacrifices to evolve to a better person to be able to provide a more loving, safer and healthier home but at the same time the world outside has already been hopeless”.
Pre-order & pre-save “Nincs Szennyezetlen Szép” here.
Tracklist:
1. The Sleep That Dragged You Away
2. Weltschmerz
3. All This Sadness
4. All This Sadness Will Be Gone
5. Your Pieces Scattered
6. Nincs Szennyezetlen Szép
7. Idegen Minden
Dávid Makó began The Devil’s Trade in 2014. His early solo work, often performed with only an acoustic guitar or banjo, quickly garnered attention for its emotional depth and stark beauty. Drawing on Appalachian folk, dark Americana, and Hungarian folk traditions, Makó’s music has been praised for its haunting vocals, minimalist arrangements, and profound emotional honesty. Recently, and especially in this new release, elements of post-metal and doom have taken Makó’s sound into new, exciting territory, whilst retaining his unique intimacy.
“Nincs Szennyezetlen Szép”, translated as “there is no uncontaminated beauty”, is a record forged in grief and the unflinching confession. Fans of The Devil’s Trade will immediately recognise Makó’s signature elements: the deep, rugged baritone, the uncanny ability to transmit raw emotion and melodies drenched in melancholia. With his fifth studio album however, Makó reclaims the heaviness of his early years, pushing his sound into new, atmospheric territory. “‘Nincs Szennyezetlen Szép’ is much darker and heavier and more complex than anything I have done”, says Makó.
Working within a larger, more dynamic canvas, Makó’s confessional power is met with metal-wrought anguish, reborn as an intimate, haunting journey toward authenticity. “‘Nincs Szennyezetlen Szép’ is an elegy to his late mother. “Between the death of my mother and the birth of my son we only had two weeks”, explains Makó, and this complexity of emotion is felt in every beat and breath of the album. Survival, suffering, isolation, the endless human turmoil that hangs over our shared and personal grief. All this is expressed defiantly, through a voice that is devastatingly vulnerable and resilient.
While The Devil’s Trade remains a deeply personal, largely self-driven project, “Nincs Szennyezetlen Szép” also reflects the input of key collaborators. “Just like with (previous album) ‘Vidékek vannak idebenn’, my old friend Gaspar Binder helped me write and record the drums and I wrote and played everything else. Szabolcs Szűcs, our local legend engineered the album and my best friend Márton Szabó helped us as a producer, or I love to use the term: musical conscience. This time I dared to ask another friend of mine, Nikita Kampard (Der Weg Einer Freiheit) to be the mastering engineer and it makes me so grateful that he said yes”, states Makó.
“Nincs Szennyezetlen Szép” is not an easy listen, nor was it meant to be. It is a sincerely painful document of mourning and the myriad of emotions that grip us, from bitter rage to catatonic sadness. It is a testament to the resilience found in surviving and continuing through all, a reminder that “there is no uncontaminated beauty”.
Line-up:
Dávid Makó – Vocals, guitar, keyboard
Gaspar Binder – Drums
