photos by Dylan Ownes
“Scythe Of Saturn” is the latest preview of Carving The Causeway To The Otherworld – the second LP from Irish black/death metal band COSCRADH – nearing release in February through 20 Buck Spin.
Like a black wind rising off peatlands long left to silence, Ireland’s COSCRADH unearths their second album, Carving The Causeway To The Otherworld, wrenching up the bog-roads of the dead through dread sorcery. An invocation of deep-rooted heritage and ancient mysticism, the album resurrects the three-thousand-year-old oaken pathways raised by warring tribes under the cold eye of the druid, toward the realm beyond life, and conjuring these vanished labors with the memory of violence itself.
Channeling the druid as both astronomer and war-seer, COSCRADH invokes Mars as the god whose red light demands sacrifice, revealing Gaelic warriors hollowing themselves into vessels and letting the fury of Goac enter and devour them for battle. Guitars flare and burn like meteors knifing the horizon, unfurling riffs rusted with ancestral power. The blistering percussive onslaught crashes like hooves on dead earth as the band’s savage ferocity erupts like a war-cry cast into the heavens, crowned in ruinous splendor. COSCRADH fully inhabits this domain between worlds, breathing into their work the fury and spiritual force of a people who carved truths into land, sky, and grave.
A communion of druidic science and blood, ritual aggression, and linguistic resurrection, Carving The Causeway To The Otherworld compels a celestial reckoning where fate itself is flung upon the altar. Like gods that ride the firmament, COSCRADH’s cold, cruel radiance falls upon all who hear it. The record is a cosmic execution, binding together the bygone causeways, war gods, stone idols, and star-born forces that the druids sought to harness. A vision of the night sky as a living battlement of omens, for those who would hark to the old wrathful spirits.
Carving The Causeway To The Otherworld was created in 2025 at Sun Studios, and Studio One Temple Bar, Átha Cliath, recorded and mixed by Shauny Cads at Last Light Recordings, and mastered by Dan Lowndes at Resonance Sound Studios. The cover art was handled by Stefan Todorović of Khaos Diktator Design, the layout handled by Chimère Noire Design, and photography was handled by Dylan Ownes Photography. Additionally, guest Michał “The Fall” Stępień provided ambient samples on several tracks.
The new song “Scythe Of Saturn” arrives through a video created by Visual Decay Media, infused with live footage from Pluteras Records and Blue Heron Video.
Watch COSCRADH’s video for “Scythe Of Saturn” on YouTube HERE and stream the song on all platforms HERE.
COSCRADH’s savage and mystical black death metal is prime listening for fans of Teitanblood, Angelcorpse, Immortal, Absu, Black Curse, Mayhem, Beherit, Katharsis, and Cultes Des Ghoules.
20 Buck Spin’s first release of 2026, Carving The Causeway To The Otherworld will be released February 20th on LP, CD, MC, and digital formats. Preorders are live at the label webshop HERE and Bandcamp where “Caesar’s Revelation (Hibernia L. VI V. XIV ad XVI et XXIV)” is also streaming HERE.
Having toured in Europe, and across the Western US with labelmates Ascended Dead, COSCRADH is plotting new tour dates in support of the album, having booked a record release show and several festival performances for the Spring.
COSCRADH Live:
4/17/2026 Winds Of Agony II @ Sala Nau B1 – Barcelona, ES
4/25/2026 The Wild Duck – Dublin, IE *album release show
5/09/2026 Death Is Not The End III @ Klub Łącznik – Wrocław, PL
COSCRADH:
Ciarán Ó Críodáin – guitars, vocals, lyrics
Hick Ó Aodha – bass, vocals, noise
Jason Keane – guitars, lead, synth
Boban Burger – drums
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