FIR BOLG RELEASE "TRISKELION"

 

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French Celtic black metal band Fir Bolg will release their new album "Triskelion" on November 27th, 2026 through Schwarzdorn Production. The album will be available digitally, on CD and LP.

Founded by Dagoth in Nice, southern France, in 2006, Fir Bolg have developed a form of black metal rooted in Celtic mythology, pagan traditions and ancestral tales. The band's name itself refers to the Fir Bolg, an ancient people associated with the earliest ages of Ireland.

"Triskelion" opens a new chapter for the band, taking the dark and visceral character of their earlier material into a more organic and immersive direction. Guitars are joined by ancient instruments, traditional percussion and tribal textures, giving the record a stronger ritualistic atmosphere.

Fir Bolg's first material appeared with the 2008 demo "Paganism", later reissued by Schwarzdorn Production in 2010. Drummer Abaddon joined that same year and later took part in the band's first full-length, "Towards Ancestral Lands", released in 2013. Written and composed by Dagoth, that album established the combination of black metal, traditional instrumentation and tribal sounds that would become central to Fir Bolg.

Following "Towards Ancestral Lands", the band played extensively in France and elsewhere in Europe, including shows alongside Negura Bunget and Otargos. Bassist Femto joined in 2019, completing the line-up that entered Drak'hard Studio in spring 2025 to record "Triskelion".

Tracklist:

Yule

Underground Chtonian Sacrifice

Vae Victis

Beltane

Famine 536

Mog Ruith

Lord of Hate

Samhain

Druid

Dowth Passage Tomb

Mabon

Drunemeton

Queen Mother Celtic Land

Line-up:

Dagoth - Vocals, guitar, bouzouki

Abaddon - Drums

Femto - Bass

Recording info:

Produced by Fir Bolg

Engineered and mixed by David Argi

Mastered by Damien Rainaud

Recorded during spring 2025 at Drak'hard Studio

For fans of: Belenos, Waylander, Primordial, Kampfar

Links:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063756091637

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fir_bolg_official/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/firbolgtruepagan

"Drunemeton" video: https://youtu.be/qG_Khbj7GJU

MACOCHA RELEASE "PALE HEART"

 

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MACOCHA – PALE HEART

LABEL: INDEPENDENT RELEASE

RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 23rd 2026

Formed in the spring of 2022 in Blansko in the Czech Republic, Macocha (pronounced ‘ma-tso-kha’ and named after the deepest abyss in central Europe) released their self-titled debut album in 2024. Right from the beginning they were focussed on following their own path, forging their own identity and not giving a damn if that made it hard for people to file them under some convenient genre definition. Their music is fierce, dark, impassioned and angry…vivid, vibrant, aflame with emotion and punishingly heavy. They draw on whatever sounds are needed to bring their songs to life – from black metal, from hardcore, from death metal, sludge, doom – there are no boundaries or limitations for Macocha. And now they have returned with their second album; another descent into darkness delivered in their inimitable style, pushing further, digging deeper – harder, heavier, more hauntingly melodic, more emotionally honest, raw and bloody. This is Pale Heart…

“Let me face the darkness, one final time…”

- ‘Till The Darkness Takes Me’ - Macocha

After a momentary held breath of feedback Pale Heart explodes into life with ‘Idiocracy’s raging power and blackened fury. But ‘Idiocracy’ is never content to remain a single faceted creation as it settles into a slow grinding, HM2 powered riff, then segues into a vein of richly melodic melancholy. There’s hammering heaviness, irresistible hooks, undeniable darkness, weight, force, grit and attitude. ‘Idiocracy’ morphs and transforms, progresses in whatever way it needs to tell its story and reveal its true self – setting the pattern for all that is yet to come. Each song has a unique character, from the rumbling darkness and insidious sense of threat that crawls through title track, ‘Pale Heart’, where the massive chords hit you like a physical blow, to the deep shadows and deeper despair of ‘Till The Darkness Takes Me’, a tale of nihilistic defiance in the burning ruins of the world, built with hardcore strength and attitude. ‘Here Be Lions’ is simply immense, with a stunning lyric from a father to his child. The honesty of emotion, that expression of desperate love, fear and self-doubt, gives the track a breathtaking raw power. Macocha bring incredible musicality to all their finely crafted songs, with that inherent sense of melody and structure never lost in the incendiary blaze of anger and intensity. When Pale Heart ends with ‘Requiem For The World’, a funeral procession that becomes an uncontrollable inferno with riff after riff erupting from the blackened soil, colliding and exploding, the impression it leaves is indelible. This is an album for these desperate times in which we live, an album that cannot, must not, be ignored. You will encounter few albums as real and vital as this in your lifetime.

“What have we done to each other and what have we done to the world?”

- Requiem For The World - Macocha

Recorded at the Kohlekeller Studio in Germany, with the band’s own Adam Rolny handling production duties, Pale Heart was then mixed by Kristian Kohlmannslehner (Aborted, Benighted, Crematory etc) and Daniel Claar (Agathodaimon, Cuttered Flesh, Cytotoxin etc), with Kohlmannslehner also taking charge of the mastering. The result of this collaborative effort is an album that sounds utterly enveloping – trapping the listener in its desolate kingdom of destruction and consuming them. Pale Heart will be released on vinyl, cassette and digital formats on October 23rd.

“We never wanted to sound like anyone else.” – Adam Rolny, Macocha

Tracklist:

1.Idiocracy 04:54  

2.Pale Heart 04:51  

3.Breathe 04:51  

4.Till The Darkness Takes Me 05:19  

5.Garden of Eyes 04:02  

6.Here Be Lions 05:10  

7.Punch the Clock 05:02  

8.Requiem for the World 07:38

Line up:

Adam Rolny – Vocals/Guitars

David Krejci – Guitars

Josef Novak – Bass

Milos Janak – Drums

Genre: Post Black/Death/Hardcore

For fans of: Oathbreaker | Harms Way | Svartkonst

Further information:

https://linktr.ee/macochametal

https://www.instagram.com/macochametal

https://www.facebook.com/macochametal

https://www.youtube.com/@macochametal

https://macocha.bandcamp.com/