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Screenplay i directing: Przemysław Gomuła
Camera, VFX: Ubeusz Pastuszak
Editing & color grading: Łukasz Nene
Set shots: Tomasz Krasoń
Scenography: Przemysław Gomuła, Ubeusz Pastuszak, Tomasz Krasoń
Set assist: Dawid Szwałek
Cast: Son of God - Gabriel ”Ashgan” Lapierre-Mróz
Monks - Michał Nowak, Hubert Gawroński, Paweł Cybulski , Piotr Lechus
Blaze of Perdition: Paweł Marzec, Łukasz Barański, Marcin Rybicki, Wyrd
Makeup: Klaudia Sawka
Location: Lubelskie Zakłady Tytoniowe
Production: Studio Powidok
A step back from the somewhat unusual direction the band followed on their previous offering, -- 2020's "The Harrowing Of Hearts" -- "Upharsin" takes on a dark and pessimistic tone reflected by its appropriately oppressive music. Haunting and melancholic melodies rooted in traditional black metal meet unforgiving blastbeats and solemn marches, while emotional yet feral vocals aim to bring a proper sense of rage and disgust.
"With Upharsin, we aimed to open the wounds of humanity as a collective," the band notes. "The album reflects on how humans tend to gravitate towards conflict and strife. How religions and politics as well as other aspects of our everyday life are tainted and driven by our lower instincts as we willingly refuse to learn from our own history, as we choose to ignore and neglect the shadow aspect of our psychic reality, which in turn takes us further and further in the everlasting cycle of violence. It's probably the most realistic concept we've taken on, with noticeably less spiritual leanings and a much more grounded approach."
Opening track and first single, "W Kwiecie Rozłamu" (English translation: "In Rupture's Prime") hits hard from the very first second. "We wanted to begin the album with something striking and punishing, hence why there is no intro to set the mood first. However, most of our songs rarely keep the same mood for the entire duration and this one is no different. It's probably the most varied composition on Upharsin and what starts with fury and flames, soon transcends into a somewhat sludgy, almost psychedelic abyss to shift once again into fiery blast-driven inferno. Lyrically, it talks about our struggle to keep up with the pace and temptations of our collective, destructive nature. To understand, accept and learn from it instead of suppressing it and allowing it to expand."
