Polish Death Metal band Throneum return on October 16, 2026 with Love Is the Law But Death Is the Frame, issued by Godz Ov War Productions on LP, CD and cassette. The six-track release is presented by the label as “Nightmarish Death Metal,” a description consistent with the band’s increasingly cryptic and unsettling direction.
The record was tracked primarily between June 2025 and May 2026, with earlier drum and guitar recordings from 2021 used for the closing composition, “Eve-Salome-Judith-Rehab.” Tomasz Riedel wrote the music and lyrics and handled production, engineering and mixing, while Eroc mastered the album. Additional vocals come from Christiane Thomaßen.
Its track titles, including “The True Story,” “The Fallen Ones” and “Death Is Only the Frame,” suggest a thematic preoccupation with desire, religious imagery and mortality. “The True Story” is available ahead of release, offering an initial point of entry into the material without presuming to describe the entire album before it is heard.
The cover reproduces Salome (1920) by Luis Icart, with additional graphics credited to Thanatophilic Obscurities. For an underground band with a long history of pushing Death Metal towards uncomfortable extremes, this is a release worth documenting rather than reducing to a brief announcement.
Source / advance track: Godz Ov War Productions (Bandcamp).
