Unverkalt Announce New Album Héréditaire

While they’ve always pushed the intricate balance that defines post-metal, Unverkalt are now plummeting over the edge into the black below. Their upcoming third album and first since signing with Season of Mist descends into humanity’s deepest and darkest origins. Héréditaire lifts the veil from our cursed existence. What emerges is the band’s heaviest and most heartfelt offering.

“Our aim has always been to blend softer, more romantic elements with extreme chaos. With Héréditaire, that time has come”, says Unverkalt’s guitarist and chief composer Themis Ioannou. “This album is a lament for what is far older than our very existence. It speaks of what seeps through generations, searching for an answer to one pervasive question: What do we carry that was never ours?”

As they begin this dark descent, today, Unverkalt are releasing a haunting video for the stirring lead single from Héréditaire. Though it starts as a slow burn, album opener “Die Auslöschung” emerges from the envoloping haze as the band’s first song to pair Dimitra Kalavrezou’s heavenly cleans with hellish harsh vocals.

“‘Die Auslöschung’ is both bleak and immersive”, Kalavrezou says. “Carved in blackened textures and hypnotic pacing, the song channels both personal and collective collapse, setting the tone for what is to come”.

Watch the video for “Die Auslöschung” on the Season of Mist YouTube channel.

https://youtu.be/pH81HphPrm4?si=T_d8Id9s03KESA2a

Héréditaire comes out February 27, 2026 on Season of Mist.

Pre-order 

https://orcd.co/unverkalthereditaire

Pre-save on Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/prerelease/5ndUNl3HyjsagbOuQCrakn?si=QESfESdPQwqHTC5MKNX4Jw

Available Formats

CD Digipack

2×12” Vinyl Gatefold (Black)

2×12” Vinyl Gatefold (Gold with black splatters)

Unverkalt are still possessed by a cinematic vision. “Die Auslöschung” opens Héréditaire like a camera coming into focus. However, though rendered in crisp detail, the scene that the band paints is bleak. Beneath a smoldering bass line, riffs rise like smoke from freshly scattered ashes. “When did this darkness fall?” Kalavrezou sings as if trying to climb out of the shadowed rubble.

On previous albums, Unverkalt took cues from French painting and European film noir, but Héréditaire throws back the velvet curtain in favor a veil. “Die Auslöschung” begins to peel back the blackened layers of traumatic memories that are passed down to us like a disease. “He said enter the wide gate and walk the easy path to destruction”. As the pounding drums give way to a fiery stream of blast beats, Kalavrezou breaks into a scream so piercing it can be felt all across our shared history.

“I enjoy discovering new, unique and compelling music in today’s overwhelming world of information, and I believe I truly succeeded with Unverkalt”, says Season of Mist labelmate and Rotting Christ frontman Sakis Tolis, who’s featured on the monolithic “I, The Deceit” from Héréditaire. “This is an exceptional piece of art, worth every minute of listening”.

Catch Unverkalt in Suttgart, Germany early next year when they co-headline Club Zentral with Hippotraktor.

Get tickets: https://loveyourartist.com/en/events/progmotion-hippotraktor-stuttgart-HCAIBG

The video for “Die Auslöschung” was directed by Themis Ioannou at RAWBITE Studio

Additional video credits

Cinematography & Editing – Themis Ioannou

Produced by – Unverkalt

Camera Equipment Support – Marcus Sander

Lighting – Hariolf “Harri” Lemke

Costume Design / Styling – Sister Jane, & Gestuz

More praise for Unverkalt

“a beautiful slice of filmic post-rock, a soundtrack without a movie beyond the one playing in your head” – Echoes and Dust

“Dimitra Kalavrezou is nothing short of intoxicating in her uniqueness and delivery, and sways between gentler harmonising, and emotionally charged outbursts, like the flicking of a switch” – The Sleeping Shaman

“…gorgeous sounds performed in service to dark themes and ideas” – Wonderbox Metal

Die Auslöschung (6:06) Oath Ov Prometheus (5:40) Ænæ Lithi (5:34) A Lullaby for the Descent (5:11) Penumbrian Lament (6:02) Introjects (5:25) I, The Deceit (feat. Sakis Tolis) (5:47) Death is Forever (4:50) Maladie de l'Esprit (5:34)