photos by Dylan Ownes
Carving The Causeway To The Otherworld – the ferocious conceptual second LP from Irish black/death metal outfit COSCRADH – is now streaming in its entirety ahead of its release this Friday 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.
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.
Listen to COSCRADH’s vicious Carving The Causeway To The Otherworld early only on the 20 Buck Spin YouTube channel RIGHT HERE.
Carving The Causeway To The Otherworld will be released February 20th on LP, CD, MC, and digital formats this Friday, February 20th Find preorders at the label webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE, and watch the video for “Scythe Of Saturn” HERE.
Having previously 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
“…they exsanguinate the canon of first-and-second-wave black metal, sup greedily, absorbing this forbidden knowledge to lend their death metal eruptions a feral power… the crack has opened in the sky, and COSCRADH shall meet us on the dark side of Pluto’s moon. Blashyrkh seems tropical by comparison.” – Decibel Magazine
“…an absolute onslaught. COSCRADH‘s approach to metal lies in that nebulous middle ground of black and death metal’s more extreme corners, comparable to a more blackened alternative to labelmates Ascended Dead. Tremolo riffs hit with all the scything force of the bleeding Saturn on the album cover, while punishing death metal crunch permeates any moment not spent at blistering pace.” – Everything Is Noise
“Carving The Causeway To The Otherworld is dense, violent, and flooding with ancient mythology and relentless war, an album that might take several tries before it sinks in. COSCRADH doesn’t spoon-feed catchy riffs and memorable hooks; they drag you deep into the past when wars were fought under the guise of the gods, and many warriors bled out in the dirt. This album feels like witnessing those battles again, leaving you breathless and bruised once this destroyer comes to an end.” – Meat Mead Metal
“If there is any brilliancy to be gleaned from this album’s overall impression it lies not only within COASCRADH’s uniquely brazen, high-rate expressivity with but also how those ideas are represented through inspired curation. It all amounts to a grand hexation of the senses, a nauseating thrash through myriad visions set behind ancient eyes. A very high recommendation.” – Mystification Zine
“In conclusion, this is one of the most evil works of metal I’ve encountered in a long time. It feels like COSCRADH aren’t attempting to write malevolence, it just pours out of them with astonishing ease. It’s also the savagery their sound possesses, the rampant lunacy their tempo, their aesthetic, bleeds with. Should one cut the flesh upon COSCRADH I doubt blood would flow, nothing viscous at least, but sheer evil and apathetic slaughter instead.” – The Razor’s Edge
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