MIND AFFLICTION's third album "No Future, No Light" was released on Friday, August 21 through Polish label Via Nocturna, closing a ten-year gap since 2016's "Into The Void". The band have put the record online in its entirety, so there is no reason to wait on this one.
Formed in Kraków in 2009, the quartet weld the ferocity and technical precision of death metal to the cold, ominous atmosphere of black metal, then stretch the result across progressive structures and dense, multilayered arrangements. Across its nine tracks the album trades in crushing riffs, blast-driven percussion and an unrelenting wall of sound, offset by melodic passages and slower, atmospheric stretches. Lyrically it maps human collapse, inner decay and existential darkness — a world consumed by chaos and gradual disintegration.
We covered the album's announcement earlier this month alongside the video for "Niebyt", the Polish-language track shot at Rabsztyn Castle. The finished record is the band's darkest and most forceful to date.
"No Future, No Light" was produced, mixed and mastered by Dominik Burzym at Studio 67, whose credits include CEMETERY OF SCREAM and MORD'A'STIGMATA. Lyrics for "The Architect" were written by Kamil Kamler, band photography comes from Monika Podolska, and the cover artwork and layout are the work of Diana Sawicka — a name Ukrainian listeners will know from NOKTURNAL MORTUM and PATRIARKH.
Tracklist:
- Festering Dreams
- Purified Maggots
- Eons Of Blindness
- Futureless
- Niebyt
- Awakening
- Reckoning
- Vishe III
- The Architect
Line-up:
- Dariusz Zabrzeński — guitars, vocals, keyboards & FX
- Krzysztof Chomicki — bass, vocals
- Kamil Poręba — guitars
- Robert Błażyczek — drums
Hear the full album: YouTube All streaming platforms: linktr.ee/mind.affliction Order the CD: Via Nocturna