London-based Sardinian black-death metal band COGAS is set to return on April 24th, 2025, with their second full-length album, “Among the Dead: How to Become a Ghost”. True to their DIY ethos, the band has once again taken full control of the creative and production process, shaping a record that is as raw and honest as it is intense and intricate. This new release pushes their sound into more technical and structured territories while maintaining a striking melodic thread that enhances the album’s deeply tragic concept.
With a violent yet precise riff-oriented approach and an unmistakable emotional intensity, COGAS deliver their most complete work to date. The album masterfully balances cold, sorrowful black metal atmospheres with a relentlessly powerful death metal rhythmic backbone, creating a dynamic interplay between melancholic melodies and sheer sonic force. This fusion of aggression and melody results in a dark and immersive experience that sets a new milestone in their artistic evolution.
The first single “Autopsy of an Hollow” is now streaming HERE.
The band commented:
“With this album, we give voice and sound to the pain of those who have been lost in the postcard-perfect hell called Sardinia.
Generational traumas—past, present, and future—are told through the wounds, both physical and spiritual, of an ordinary young man.
‘Among the Dead: How to Become a Ghost’ is our necessity and will to bring Sardinian extreme metal towards a bitter truth, setting aside the themes that have stagnantly plagued our musical world for too many years, in order to shed light on subjects we consider closer to reality.
Our album is the black shroud of suicidal death—mental and physical—of hundreds of young people from our island.
An island we so proudly flaunt as a monument to our virtues, when in reality, the virtues we boast about are nothing more than words carried away by the September mistral.
Thus, we dedicate this latest Opus to the souls who are losing themselves in our homeland, to those who have been lost, and to those who will be lost—guilty only of being too sensitive for a land cursed by its own allure.
Have the courage to break the chains you have fastened around your own wrists”.
Tracklist:
1. Dead Reflected
2. Among the Dead
3. Absorption of the Flesh through Self Abuse
4. Autopsy of an Hollow
5. On the Bank of the River Styx
6. Charon
7. The Noble Rot
8. La Fiamma che Respiro
COGAS was founded in 2015 by Piero Mura and Davide Ambu with the goal of bringing Sardinian extreme metal to the English scene. Initially a duo, the band expanded in 2018 and released their debut EP, “At the Gates of Pazuzu” (2019), after their first live performances in London.
They quickly gained recognition in the local underground scene, followed by the EP “Fuck Your Black Metal Scene” (2020) and their first full-length album, “Unconscious Sons of the Reptile God” (2021), which was well received across Europe. Despite a few line-up changes, COGAS continued performing and evolving, with new musicians contributing to their sound. In 2024, they recorded their second full-length album, “Among the Dead: How to Become a Ghost”, set for release in 2025.
For fans of: Dark Funeral, Deicide, Mgla, Hour Of Penance
Line-up:
Davide Ambu – Guitar
Piero Mura – Vocals
Erick D Red – Bass
Davide Marini – Session drums
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