Thy Killing Hand, a faceless Polish duo, wields Black Metal stripped to bone and rust. Their debut full-length, “Infernal Commands”, follows two tape-borne warnings – “Scarlet Ceremonies” (2023) and “Ixaxar” (2024) – and distils those impulses into a heavier, more oppressive form.
The album moves at a stalking pace: dirge-like, mid-tempo malice driven by reaper-sharp guitars, punishing drums, and basslines that sear through the mix like molten ore. Synths drift as funeral vapour; choral howls rise from below. All of it carries the foul breath of dungeon air and the conviction of nonconformists operating beyond any scene or expectation.
No adornment, no polish – only the stench of mould and a curse older than time. This is an invocation of dormant Evil: freshly forged, yet ancient in spirit. Hints of Necromantia, Beherit, and Master’s Hammer flicker through the gloom, but the voice here is unmistakably their own. A debut meant not to entertain, but to contaminate.
