Photo by: Brian Sheehan
Official press release:
Houston, Texas-based black metal conjurors and recent Metal Blade Records signees, Necrofier, will unleash their fiery new full-length, Transcend Into Oblivion, on February 27th, 2026.
Necrofier are rewriting the rulebook in their own blood. Since 2018, the quartet has applied a spicy Texan intensity to the icy atmospheres of mid-’90s Norway, and Transcend Into Oblivion deploys their modus operandi with more power, conviction, and ingenuity than ever before. Here Necrofier crafts a modern classic of the form, where tempestuous squalls of extremity are punctuated by sinister, melancholic, otherworldly melodies, twinkling in the gloom like will-o’-the-wisps on a black night. Vocalist/guitarist Bakka reflects:
“This album really ended up where I always wanted us to go. It also had me digging deeper into the journey, into myself and basically everything to get it here. I felt the way the record makes you sound. Sometimes surrounded in chaos and sometimes in moments of accession. I really like what we did on the previous album, but it doesn’t compare to what we have accomplished on the new one.”
While 2023’s Burning Shadows In The Southern Night was a redoubtable beast edging Necrofier closer to a radiant apex, as its name suggests, Transcend Into Oblivion surpasses their previous work and elevates the band to a higher plateau. Themes and lyrics are oppressively dark and conceptually linked with the number three being especially significant on this third LP, a three-act structure comprising three three-part suites, separated by three instrumentals. Bakka says:
“The other records have different concepts, but they weren’t drawn out in one big piece like the new one. From the creation, the record is based on a Luciferian Dark Night Of The Soul. ‘Fires Of The Apocalypse, Light My Path’ is the awakening. The first three songs are experiences and dreams that were happening as this change began, and I questioned everything I was doing. It starts feeling as though a new fire has been lit, but it grows dark as we venture into the second act, ‘Servants Of Darkness, Guide My Way’. This is the struggle and torment that comes along with the awakening. Realizing things from the past are no longer true and you see the world in a different way, and it isn’t easy. This leads into Act III, ‘Horns Of Destruction, Lift My Blade’. This is the rebirth or accession. You have been transformed; you are not who you were before. Everything has changed, you see the world differently and you take what is yours.”
In advance of the record’s release, today the band presents “Servants Of Darkness, Guide My Way I”. Bakka elaborates:
“The torment and struggle that comes along with awakening. The descent into darkness to be reborn. Where at first you thought everything was done, now you learn that these trials are what help shape you while they drive you mad.”
Transcend Into Oblivion was recorded at Southwing Studios and House Of Thorns in Houston, Texas, produced and engineered by Joel Hamilton with assistant engineering by Chris Kritikos, and mixed by Joel Hamilton at Studio G in Brooklyn, New York. The record features artwork by José Gabriel Alegría Sabogal (Whoredom Rife, Mephorash, Exhumation, Beheaded) and will be released on CD and digital formats as well as 2xLP w/ etching on Side D + four-page insert and DLC in the following color variants:
- Cosmic Storm (Clear Brown Black Marbled) – (US)
- 180g black – (EU)
- Enchantment (Cloudy Clear/Red Marbled) – (EU – Ltd. 500)
- Transcend (Gold W/ Black Splatter) – (EU – Ltd. 300)
- Cursed (Black Powder Splatter) – (EU – Ltd. 200; Band Exclusive)
Find all preorders at metalblade.com/necrofier.
Transcend Into Oblivion track listing:
- “Fires Of The Apocalypse, Light My Path I”
- “Fires Of The Apocalypse, Light My Path II”
- “Fires Of The Apocalypse, Light My Path III”
- “Behold, The Birth Of Ascension”
- “Servants Of Darkness, Guide My Way I”
- “Servants Of Darkness, Guide My Way II”
- “Servants Of Darkness, Guide My Way III”
- “Mystical Creation Of Enlightenment”
- “Horns Of Destruction, Lift My Blade I”
- “Horns Of Destruction, Lift My Blade II”
- “Horns Of Destruction, Lift My Blade III”
- “Toward The Necrofier”
