Track By Tracks: Tarlung - Axis Mundi (2026)

1. Static Noise:

Our first single! Riffing straight into your face. A tale about how our current society, especially social media, continuously urges people to be some ‘best’ version of themselves, skewing their own image and aspirations towards unachievable heights.

2. The Valley of Nowhere:

Post-apocalyptic Western Sounds turn into a heavy 3/4 chugger. Fear, emptiness, despair, and a self-imposed mountain too steep to climb. This track is meant to capture the listener in a dark chasm!

3. Burning Out:

The ballad of this album. Starting soft and spherical, the pace picks up soon. It talks about the constant pressure we are being faced with today, war, economics, global problems like climate change, or some comparatively mundane things like work. The song tries to emphasize that maybe you should embrace your life, as long as we still have the way we currently know.

4. Sea of Drowned Souls:

On this track, we had the pleasure of having Thérèse Lanz and Casey Rogers do some extra vocals. We think it turned out great and gives the song an extra flavor that people might not expect! Somewhat inspired by the band Cave In. The feeling of floating through time and space, drowning in the dark tides that we call human experience.

5. Swans:

A dynamic piece to open side B of the album. It picks up the pace a little, and it is great fun to play! The lyrics are about dark beauty found in seemingly hopeless places, like the song of a dying swan – this can be interpreted as a little nod to the last Carcass album of their first run.

6. Full Circle:

The prog opera of the album. It’s expansive and varied, and the lyrics are indeed Warhammer-inspired in this case. Somewhat of a warning tale. It feels humanity seems to like to repeat its own shortcomings every other era. There is no answer to be found here, only a hope we’ll not end up in a WH40k timeline :)

7. Between Earth and Moon:

A slow, heavy steamroller. Pure doom with soaring melodies. Humans are indifferent to the sorrows of others. But beware, the Old Ones are indifferent to your suffering as well. It’s all just a universe of indifference …

8. Axis Mundi:

The final piece, the title piece, and our second single. Relatively fast by our standards, and diving into some elaborate harmonies in the second half. Under a heavy load, the world axis bends and is bound to break, revealing the mechanical structure hidden beneath. A machine built to enslave and grind. Welcome to a dead world with a dead soul!