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Thursday, May 21, 2026
BAALZAGOTH: POST VIDEO FOR NEW TRACK "EXCOMMUNICATUS AB HUMANITATE"
Polish death metal warriors BAALZAGOTH have posted a video for "EXCOMMUNICATUS AB HUMANITATE", a track from the bands anticipated new release "NO GOD, NO SAVIOR",
due to be unleashed 6/6/2026 via PUTRID CULT.
BAALZAGOTH, via BANDCAMP, are streaming the bands anticipated new release "MORBID
PERSECUTIONS", unleashed 4/15/2022 via MARA PRODUCTIONS.
FROM SOLID ROCK PR:
BAALZAGOTH strikes without mercy - first blow from the new album.
BAALZAGOTH
returns with the most ruthless release of their career - "No God, No
Savior" which is a manifesto of extremity, chaos, and total negation.
Blackened death metal in its purest crushing form.
BAALZAGOTH,
a band from Polish town Kostrzyn nad Odrą, makes it clear from the very
first notes: there is no room for compromise, salvation, or mercy.
Embracing the aesthetics of blackened death metal, the band delivers
music that is brutal, direct, and consciously aimed at religious dogma.
Their sound is a sonic execution - heavy, dense, and permeated with a
darkness that not only accompanies but overwhelms.
Baalzagoth
draws from the hellish legacy of the death metal scene—you can hear
echoes of the merciless power of Morbid Angel, the suffocating chaos of
Incantation, the ritualistic severity of Immolation, and the extreme
intensity of Hate Eternal. However, this is neither a copy nor a
nostalgic homage - the band takes what is heaviest, most sinister, and
most primal in death metal, then ramps up the brutality to the breaking
point.
Since
its inception, Baalzagoth has consistently forged its own identity:
anti-religious, dark, and ruthless. Their compositions are tightly
constructed, precisely constructed—massive riffs, a crushing rhythm
section, and a tempo that leaves no room for breath. This is music that
attacks head-on, without embellishment, without flirting with lightness -
pure, primal power.
The
culmination of this journey is the album "No God, No Savior" - the
band's most polished, ruthless, and mature release. It's intense and
conceptually coherent material, consciously evolving their existing
sound toward even greater extremes and expressiveness.
All
music was written and arranged by the band, except “Auto da fé” which
was composed, performed and recorded by Michał “Joda” Sobczyński. Ika
Klimaszewska (soprano vocals & vocal samples) appears as a guest on
the tracks: “Satan”, “Excommunicatus ab humanitate”, “Auto da fé” and
“Gloria Apostasiae”. Drums were recorded at Sound of Records Studio by
Mikołaj Kiciak (Blindead 23, Leash Eye), guitars at Tetra Wave Studio by
Krzysztof Kostencki (Morrath, Sothoris), and the material was
subsequently recorded, edited, mixed, and mastered at Heinrich House
Studio by Filip Hałucha (Azarath, Behemoth, Hate). The album cover
artwork was conceived by Oktavius, with artwork and layout created by
Ksenia Kot, based on a photograph by Maciej Pieloch. Band photography
was done by Maciej Pieloch (Batushka, Hate).
The
band comments on the upcoming release: "No God, No Savior is not just
an album—it's a manifesto of extremes. A sonic declaration of the
rejection of the idea of salvation, an affirmation of chaos, and the
triumph of darkness over the illusion of meaning. Baalzagoth doesn't
attempt to reinvent death metal. We remind you what this genre truly is:
aggression, negation, and the unbridled violence of sound. No
compromise. No god. No salvation."