Belgian doom metal outfit Akem Manah unleashes lyric video for second single

Belgian doom metal band AKEM MANAH have released a lyric video for “The Burning of John Briggs”, the second single from their forthcoming full-length album “Threnodies”, due out on April 3 via Black Lion Records. Following the harrowing introduction set by debut single “The End of Earnest Hollow”, the new track dives deeper into the band’s bleak and ritualistic sonic mythology.

Carried by crushing doom riffs, scorched atmospheres and a funereal sense of inevitability, the track embodies the band’s talent for transforming narrative despair into monolithic heaviness. Watch and listen here:

The band comments on the track:

“A carnival strongman consumed by conviction and guilt, John Briggs mistakes the apocalypse for revival. What begins as religious fervour becomes a carnival of fire and delirium. The track is fevered, portraying faith’s final transformation into spectacle and ash“.

The album was edited, mixed and mastered by Brett Caldas-Lima at Tower Studio and is available for pre-order at THIS LOCATION.

Tracklist:

1.The Inevitable Fate of Francis Cobb (Intro)
2.The End of Earnest Hollow
3. The Mystery of Mosef Mehul
4.The Burning of John Briggs
5.The Journey of Nathaniel Johnson
6.The Undoing of an Unknown (Interlude)
7.The Fall of Maximillian Montagne
8.The Sleep of Eve Saldana
9.The Demise of John Dunn
10.The Hanging of Edward Hope (Outro)

Featuring ten brand new tracks, “Threnodies” unfolds as a cycle of human unraveling: ten dirges for those who sought the truth behind the world, only to find the abyssal chaos staring back. Each song recounts a different descent into forbidden knowledge, madness and death of men and women who, out of grief, faith, or hunger for meaning, reached too far into the Mythos. Their stories are not about monsters but about the human need to see beyond the illusion of order, and the silence that answers.

Musically, “Threnodies” draws from doom and black metal’s bleak cadence, but with an overt horror tone. A lament sung from within the void rather than against it. Every track is a threnody in the ancient sense, namely a song for the dead, and for what in us dies when we understand too much.