DÄAHL have introduced the track ‘Descend II’ through Amor Fati’s official YouTube channel alongside the announcement of their debut album, Descend. Amor Fati Productions has set November 24 as the international release date for CD and vinyl LP editions; the announcement does not specify a year.
The press release presents DÄAHL as a continuation of LHAÄD, whose three albums for Amor Fati followed an underwater theme. It identifies Beyond as LHAÄD’s final offering and the conclusion of that trilogy. The new project retains a black metal foundation while shifting the announcement’s central imagery from water to fire.
That transition is summarized in the announcement’s phrase, ‘The protagonist in reverse. Water becomes fire.’ Both artist names are described as anagrams of ‘hadal,’ a term associated with the deepest ocean trenches. The release connects that word to Hades and uses the passage from ocean depths to the underworld as the conceptual starting point for Descend.
Rather than describing the new record as another underwater chapter, the announcement frames it as a passage through the ocean floor into a realm defined by flame. Its description of DÄAHL’s black metal emphasizes violence directed both inward and outward. These are the announcement’s descriptions of the music and concept, rather than an account of a separate listening session.
The package also reveals the album cover and supplies a four-part running order: ‘Beyond I’ (11:16), ‘Beyond II’ (7:55), ‘Beyond III’ (8:55) and ‘Beyond IV’ (10:23). Those are the titles printed in the supplied tracklisting. The same announcement calls the newly linked track ‘Descend II’; it does not explain the difference or establish which listed album track corresponds to that stream.
