Band info
Band: Damhnait
Album: ‘Keeper of the Dead‘
Released: December 26th, 2025
Genre: black metal
Location: US
Review
“Plant myself in undead soil
Make matter of all this toil”
These are the opening lines of the song “You Entered the Dwelling Place of Dead Tenderness Alive”.
Rarely have we heard such laconic yet deeply meaningful lyrics in the Black metal genre, usually so enthralled by cynicism, detachment and morose individuality.
Damhnait with ‘Keeper of the Dead’, their debut, retains the sheer coldness many listeners enjoy but encases it with the inner fire for communal revolt – an element we feel is of paramount importance. This route is a theme prevalent in all the poesy of the songs found within.
This project coming to us from New Mexico, entered the scene in 2023 as an openly antifascist endeavor and has since then offered two EPs and multiple singles, and has also appeared in the first Free Palestine compilation with the song “Oñate”.
The album operates on a carefully laid out substrata of death/doom undercurrents, on top of which, a web of raw and unabated black metal expands.
Serpentine, ghostly vocals fly over steady basslines and methodical, yet at times also playful and mischievous drums and an array of riffs howling in and out of composition to merge with the occasional haunting violins, fabricating a bewildering and agonizing corpus.
An excellent example of Black Metal that both lyrically and structurally expands on the notorious rigidity of the genre, offering an awesome, multifaceted album.
Thrilled to feature Damhnait in our channel!
Other links and platforms:
BC: https://damhnait.bandcamp.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/damhnait_dan/
Bsky: https://bsky.app/profile/damhnait-dan.bsky.social