PRESS RELEASE:
SUFFERING – THINGS SEEN BUT ALWAYS HIDDEN
LABEL: APOCALYPTIC WITCHCRAFT
RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 28th 2025
It seems that every step you have taken, every choice you have made has led you to this place. You have fled from it, appalled by what you can sense within, but no matter where you run you find it waiting…an impossibility that can never be found, yet never left behind. In resignation…or is that anticipation now, lurking in the blackest corners of your heart…you turn and walk towards the crimson door, beneath his heavy gaze.
Formed in 2012 in the UK’s West Midlands, Suffering are exponents of occult black metal, conjurers of fevered nightmares and invokers of darkness and madness. Their music draws upon the oppressive weight of soul crushing doom and the violent fervour of the blackest metal, bringing them together in an elixir of spirit staining, mind warping venom. Their first arcane offering was the 2018 album, 11, which was followed by two EPs – Temen-Ni-Gru (11:11) in 2022 and last year’s Symphonies: Diabolis. Now, newly signed to Apocalyptic Witchcraft – a label which band front man Sturmgeist Fornicator Insultus describes as one that “…supports, encourages and thrives on pushing the boundaries within extreme music…” – they are ready to unveil their second full length album, their most enthralling and disturbing work to date, Things Seen But Always Hidden.
Notes of dread, enticement and sorrow emerge from the storm and lead you away from all you know and all you understand as first track, ‘The House With The Red Door’ begins. And once your disorientation and dislocation is complete it erupts into furious violence and intimidating domination. Walls of haunting, unnerving blackness close around you, fear rises from the gloom like mist and shadowed shapes seem to move within the enveloping sound. Each track bleeds into the next as Things Seen But Always Hidden progresses, an unbroken journey into the unknown. ‘The Chamber Of Breathtaking Delights’ ensnares you in a conflict of desolation and ecstasy, a dying of conscience and birthing of consuming depravation. Dark, doomed riffs providing a funeral procession for the self you once knew. Songs rise like unholy entities from the album’s fever dream torrent…the aching ritual, ineffable darkness and oppressive weight of ‘Consorting With The Devil’, ‘Apocrypha Through The Keyhole’s ragged, bloody conjuration – dust in the mouth and rust on the blade, its inescapable atmosphere a lament and glorification entwined. At the last, ‘Behind The Green Door’ brings together intensity and power, insistent rhythms, dread pronouncements and desolate melodies. Monolithic marches and ritualistic immolation, agony and remaking before a final release into an eternal screaming nightmare…
“The darkness and truth that lies within is far beyond what we had imagined possible. But remember, things are not always what they seem and some things are right in front of your face.”
- Suffering
The way to Things Seen But Always Hidden will be revealed by Apocalyptic Witchcraft on November 28th. But remember, once you have set foot on this path there is no way back…
Line-up:
Sturmgeist Fornicator Insultus - Vocals
Aýdlig - Guitars
Malleus - Drums
Inquinatus - Bass
Genre: Occult Black Metal
For fans of: Akercocke | Shining | Acherontas | Forgotten Tomb
Further Information:
https://linktr.ee/sufferingofficial
https://www.facebook.com/Suffering.ukmetal/