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Threnodies

by Akem Manah

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    releases March 6, 2026

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1.
The Inevitable Fate of Francis Cobb (Intro)
2.
The End of Earnest Hollow
3.
The Mystery of Mosef Mehul
4.
The Burning of John Briggs
5.
The Journey of Nathaniel Johnson
6.
The Undoing of an Unknown (Interlude)
7.
The Fall of Maximillian Montagne
8.
The Sleep of Eve Saldana
9.
The Demise of John Dunn
10.
The Hanging of Edward Hope (Outro)

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Threnodies is a cycle of human unraveling in ten dirges for those who sought the truth behind the world and found only the abyssal chaos staring back. Each song recounts a different descent into forbidden knowledge, madness and death of men and women who, out of grief, faith, or hunger for meaning, reached too far into the Mythos. Their stories are not about monsters but about the human need to see beyond the illusion of order, and the silence that answers. 



Musically, Threnodies draws from doom and black metal’s bleak cadence, but with an overt horror tone. A lament sung from within the void rather than against it. Every track is a threnody in the ancient sense, namely a song for the dead, and for what in us dies when we understand too much.

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releases March 6, 2026

Akem Manah
RD – Bass guitar
GVC – Rhythm guitar
JT – Lead guitar
XDS – Guitars, keyboards, vocals

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Tracks II, III, IV, VI, VIII, IX written by RD. * Track VII written by GVC and RD. * Tracks I, V, X written by XDS. 
Violins by German Dmitriev. Drums by Fabio Alessandrini. Exotic instruments on track VI by Justin Bruce. Artwork by Nicolás Oliveros.

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Akem Manah Ghent, Belgium

Formed in 2007 in Belgium, the original Akem Manah is a doom metal band known for blending progressive riffs with compelling melodies. They released two albums, "The Testament of Sealant Mound" and "Beneath," before disbanding in 2014.

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