heavy-metal-darkness: Midyrasi’s Kult |Italian Dark Sound |Dying Victims Productions

Sunday, March 8, 2026

Midyrasi’s Kult |Italian Dark Sound |Dying Victims Productions

Release Date March 27^th, 2026
Format CD/LP
Genre Doom Metal, NWOBHM
Country Italy

Midyrasi's Kult formed as an underground alliance of veterans from Italian doom outfits like DoomSword, Midryasi, Agarthi, and Fiurach. They dropped their first demo, "Mountain Devil", through Caligari Records in March 2025, catching the attention of tape traders everywhere. Now, Dying Victims Productions is backing their first full-length assault, "Italian Dark Sound". These guys mix traditional heavy metal, old-school doom metal, and early black metal, channeling the bizarre occult aura of their homeland's cult names like Black Hole and Death SS. Geilt handles the vocals and bass, bringing up to eleven different musicians into the fold to complete the sessions.

The music on "Italian Dark Sound" delivers a chaotic, hypnotic trip into a total underground nightmare. Geilt's low-end thunder meets Avenir's traditional metal guitar attacks, creating riffs loaded with old-school evil. Wrathlord punishes the drums with steady, doom-laden pounding. They throw away modern studio tricks entirely. Gabry Strada produced the album at RDF Studio, delivering an earthy, kaleidoscopic audio assault. The guitars cut through the speakers with a raw edge. The vocals sound totally possessed. Listeners looking for that specific Pentagram and Celtic Frost crossover will find it right here.

The band unleashes high energy for the majority of the album. Sometimes the strange atmospheric sections drag down the momentum. Certain riffs loop longer than necessary before the next transition happens. The chaotic mix of old Bathory malice and classic Mercyful Fate twin-guitar ideas works well most of the time. Occasionally, the transitions between the doom passages and the faster heavy metal attacks become clunky. The ideas are definitely sick, even when the execution stumbles for a minute. This creates a highly entertaining listening session.

Midyrasi's Kult made a weird, evil album for fans that worship old cassette tapes and patched denim jackets. "Italian Dark Sound" delivers an authentic dose of obscure heavy metal madness. The raw production and sinister songwriting provide massive headbanging moments for anyone devoted to the old underground ways. This release guarantees a good time for maniacs of dark, old-school terror.

Score: 7.5