THE BLACK THUNDER release video for new single “Ash in My Marrow”
Track comes off upcoming album “Time Obliteration” to be released on 16 October
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Polish doom and alternative metal act The Black Thunder have released a music video for the track “Ash in My Marrow”, the second single taken from their third full-length album “Time Obliteration”. The album is set for release on 16 October 2026 via Pagan Records and is now available to pre-order.
This follows the release of the single and video “Verification of Wounds”, which was praised by No Clean Singing as “not only exhilarating but also highly infectious”.
The Black Thunder bassist, vocalist and founder, Marcin Szczepański, said: “This is the first song in the band’s history where the Polish language appears naturally, interwoven with English. That’s how I heard it from the very start, back when the track was just a skeleton. I’m really curious to see how this vision is received, because that’s exactly how I envisioned it from the beginning. On top of that, there’s plenty of double-bass drumming and, surprisingly, mid-tempo blast beats; these are elements we had intentionally avoided on previous albums. Here, the clear premise was having no premises: we play what we want, and however we feel.”
With artists from Polish underground bands such as Calm Hatchery, Tyran and Deathinition, The Black Thunder moved from the stoner and groovy sounds that characterise their previous albums “Visions in Black” (2017) and “Into the Darkness We All Fall” (2021). The album takes the band to darker tones with a mixture of black metal elements, sludge elements, technical elements and crust punk elements. The music is DIY-inspired, where the group did not go for polished studio production but went with feeling: The entire album was recorded in a live recording session at Dobra 12 Studio, Białystok, with production done by Piotr Polak, with mixing and mastering handled by Haldor Grunberg at Satanic Audio.
Lyrically, the album focuses on themes of existential anxiety, internal conflict, and distorted perception. The vocals are performed mainly in English, with select Polish passages added for emphasis. Visuals for the album feature hand-painted cover artwork by Australian artist Rok (Sadistik Exekution), with graphic layouts handled by Łukasz “Pachu” Pach (Hostia).
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“Time Obliteration” tracklist:
1. Verification of Wounds
2. Ash in My Marrow
3. Nothing Remains
4. Turn into Absence
5. The Eternal Search for Inner Balance-Consciousness
6. Fractured Time
7. To Live, To Suffer, To Die
8. Revelation of Times to Follow
The Black Thunder are:
Marcin Szczepański – Vocal, Bass
Grzegorz Malinowski – Guitar
Jacek Kiełpiński – Guitar
Witek Kozak – Drums
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