Amthrya Send the Drowned of Izu Back for the Living Ten Years Later

Marie-Ève Tremblay · September 19, 2026

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Amthrya have put out Shūdan Bōrei with a lyric video, the first song released from Onnen, which Ad Noctem Records issues on 11 October on digipak and digitally.

The song goes to the shore at Izu. A bombing during the Second World War, two hundred and fifty people taken by the sea, and then ten years of a grudge that does not resolve, at the end of which the drowned stop being victims and start pulling the living down after them. The cycle has no exit, which is the point of the story and of the arrangement.

Kasumi Onryō fronts the band, and the Japanese folklore the Italians write from is not decoration on top of the music: the dissonance and the imagery arrive together.