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artist: Humulus
title: Smuggler's Cave
year: 2026
genre: Metal
type: Album
label: Ripple Music
language: English
rel. date: 2026-10-09
source: WEB/MP3
quality: CBR 320kbps / 44.1 kHz / Joint Stereo
runtime: 00:39:21
size: 90.2 MiB / 7 tracks
rip date: 2026-10-09
source url: https://open.qobuz.com/album/y2d7ikyz2dsla
tracklist:
01. Standing in the Sun 4:27
02. Rise and Fall 6:08
03. Pines 4:24
04. Smuggler's Cave 5:41
05. Cemetery Vision 5:45
06. Blue Wizard 4:58
07. Cursed Man 7:57
release notes:
Smuggler's Cave marks HUMULUS' fifth LP and their second outing with
vocalist/guitarist Thomas Mascheroni. Following 2023's Flowers Of Death,
the band spent two years traversing Europe's stages, and it was in the
cracks between tours that the improvisations for this record took root.
True to form, the band returned to the rehearsal room for marathon
sessions, capturing hours of raw interplay, isolating the sparks and
forging new songs from the embers.
On this album, those riffs hit harder and land with greater certainty
than before, yet HUMULUS's sonic hallmark remains intact: a deft pivot
from rhythmic, classic stoner crunch into more psychedelic and
introspective depths. As always, lyrics arrived after the music, with the
title track served as a thread for the rest of the record, leading the
listener through mysterious settings, tales of wizards, cemetery dreams,
damned souls and the shade of dark forests. A record that's heavy,
haunted and more than ever unapologetically HUMULUS