Beware all ye who proceed from here, for there’s a haunting due to occur on March 13. I am, of course, referring to the arrival of Transilvania‘s third album, Magia Posthuma. These Tyrolean dark-arts practitioners specialize in creating punchy, catchy black metal with a plague-like infectiousness. It’s fitting, therefore, that Decibel debut the band’s new video for “Tuberculosis Reigns.”
The song alternates between a pounding gallop that recalls the wordless chorus of Darkthrone’s “Under a Funeral Moon,” while the rest of the song resembles later-era Satyricon but with perhaps more coffin dirt added — as it should be! And the video is an equally entrancing mix of band footage and old horror movie clips.
According to the band:
“’Tuberculosis Reigns’ embodies the album’s purest aggression — a relentless surge of sound where suffocating riffs mirror the contagion of fear. Lyrically, it dissects how fear infects the narrow-minded, how it spreads unchecked, and how it ultimately crowns itself king over the weak-willed.”
Check out the video below, and go here to find preorder information for Magia Posthuma.
