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artist: Morgal
title: The Seventh Circle
year: 2026
genre: Black Metal
type: Album
label: Werewolf Records
language: English
rel. date: 2026-06-26
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo
runtime: 00:32:39
size: 74.9 MiB / 7 tracks
rip date: 2026-06-29
source url: https://open.qobuz.com/album/oehgmq7yicok6
tracklist:
01. Intro 0:36
02. Stormchaser 5:31
03. Tales of Woland 5:33
04. Goddess of Death 5:55
05. Blessed in Hell 4:49
06. Harbinger's Ritual 4:26
07. The Damned From the Seventh Circle 5:50
release notes:
WEREWOLF RECORDS is proud to present MORGAL's highly anticipated second
album, The Seventh Circle, on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.
It was but five, seemingly-long years ago when Finland's MORGAL finally
released their debut album, Nightmare Lord. That full-length had high
expectations behind it, given that the band's self-titled debut EP in
2018 had burst these exceptionally young men (two members were not yet in
their 20s) onto the international metal map with a blitzkrieg of
excitement. Nightmare Lord, by comparison, had reigned in a bit of
MORGAL's original, off-the-rails flavor in favor of stronger, more METAL
songwriting and a more polished & professional production. Not for
nothing did the legendary Joe Petagno grace the album with exclusive
cover artwork.
In the interim, MORGAL saw the arrival of two new members: vocalist /
bassist Tomb Nekrofiler and second guitarist Kill-hammer. With founding
members Crusher (guitar) and SS Exiler (drums) anchoring the attack, the
now-quartet return with their second album, The Seventh Circle.
Ironically, this new blood has helped MORGAL return to their sulfurous,
blitzed-to-fuck origins - only now, tempered with the ageless wisdom of
heavy metal. Right after its brief intro, The Seventh Circle fucking
ATTACKS and draws you down, a layer / circle at a time, into an abyss of
black metal magick that's more incendiary than ever. The rhythm section
goes way off the rails, a maelstrom of INRI by way of Devil's Force, but
somehow sounds more deliberate in its intensity: fully human and fully
possessed, yes, but also fully finessed. The twin-guitar attack truly
intensifies MORGAL's latently ripping-yet-melodic style, with both
six-stringers trading blood-boiling leads and solos with gibbering
abandon. And even with all this full-throttle electricity, the quartet
have honed their steel to include well-timed downshifts into
tundra-marching territory. The album's six primary songs slay with a
memorability that's surprising given how relatively epic they are in
length - and again, with such bazooka-blown power behind them.
Where MORGAL had drawn forth a blue-purple spirit on their first
full-length, with The Seventh Circle do they squarely reside in the lungs
of Hell: all fire, all the fucking time.