I’ll be honest — if this had crossed my path in the usual Bandcamp trawl, I’d have probably skipped it. Two tracks? Both over ten minutes? Dark Ambient in the tags? Sorry, but that normally screams “overlong intro with a blast-beat payoff that never comes.” And yet, when the fine souls at Prism of Deceit Recordings dropped this into my inbox, I figured, what the hell — let’s roll the dice.
And fuck me, am I glad I did.
Krvna Majka is not just a record. It’s an event. A twenty-five minute descent into a sonic trench where Black Metal, Dark Ambient, and pure emotional nihilism merge into something that feels less like a collection of songs and more like a ritual. The opening moments lure you in with that low hum of atmosphere — like the air itself is holding its breath — before the riffs strike like lightning cracking through the gloom. The guitars don’t just play; they howl. The drums move between glacial stillness and near-impossible velocity, and the vocals are less human expression and more cosmic agony given voice.
What’s so impressive is how Krvna Majka manage to use time as a weapon. Those two tracks don’t drag; they build. Each movement feels deliberate — like watching tectonic plates grind against one another until the world splits open and bleeds magma. Every note has intent. Every silence means something. It’s rare to find a band that can stretch songs to that length without losing tension, but this group have a grip on pacing that borders on the divine.
The Dark Ambient elements aren’t just window dressing either — they breathe through the record. They form connective tissue between the blackened violence, adding dread and texture rather than acting as filler. It’s the sound of ritual fires flickering in the void, of shadows whispering ancient names you’d be wise to forget.
Production-wise, it’s that perfect storm of clarity and decay — clean enough to separate the instruments, filthy enough to keep the corpse stench intact. It feels alive, but alive in that way a crypt full of old gods might be: still, silent, but ready to awaken if you make too much noise.
By the time the final minutes fade out, you’re left in that strange daze only great Black Metal can summon — simultaneously emptied and overfilled, scorched and sanctified.
Krvna Majka is available from the Prism of Deceit Recordings Bandcamp page.
CHOICE CUT: Both. These aren’t seperate songs, this a an entire movement.
BLACK METAL ARCHIVES VERDICT: Krvna Majka is a revelation. A two-track EP that carries the weight and vision of a full-length album. It’s dark, hypnotic, and utterly fearless in how it stretches the form of Black Metal into something ritualistic and transcendent.
