A band known for playing more notes than anyone needs has decided to play fewer of them, and Inferum have dated Adversity for 5 March 2027 with a video for "Gemini".
The album is their third and they are putting it out independently. It runs eight songs, opening on "Adversary" and "Gemini". The band say they went the other way from their previous record on purpose: "We wanted to strip away our tendency for complexity and brutality to better display how we felt. We wanted to lay our souls bare. It is the next phase for Inferum, where catharsis takes precedence over heaviness."
"Gemini" is about the fight with one's own inner critic, and the insecurity and resentment that comes out of it. The album as a whole draws on the members' own experience and deals with trauma, depression, addiction and inner conflict, which is a different place from Musth, the 2025 record the band describe as built out of abstraction and annihilation.
Inferum formed in Eindhoven in 2015 and have stayed unsigned. Morrison de Boer has sung in them from the start and Wouter Macare has drummed since 2016. Their first release was the EP Modern Massacre in 2017, followed by Human Disposal in 2019 and four singles across 2025 before Musth.
The video for "Gemini" is on the band's own channel and the song is out on streaming.