It’s a triumphant moment for Saphath, one that they have been slowly building towards for years now. The band will self-release their debut album, Ascension of the Dark Prophet, on April 8th, ten songs loaded with years of perfecting. Work has really been underway on this album ever since the sextet formed in 2019 in the far eastern Russian city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Lead singer Alexey Duraev had been collecting song ideas since 2013, but it took guitarist Dmitriy Badulin to help add to and finetune these musical concepts. Sapath finished recording Ascension of the Dark Prophet by the end of 2021, a record defined by the diversity of heavy metal, most notably death metal, black metal, and gothic metal. Thematically, the lyrics follow a style similar to classical English poetry and focus on...