VARMIA Return With "Zwykli Zmarli" Digital Single/Music Video
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Released over the All Saints Day/All Souls Day weekend, Black Metal group VARMIA return with “Zwykli Zmarli” (translated as “ordinary dead”), their first new music since 2023’s album Nie Nas Widze.
“’Zwykli Zmarli’ is a song to honor those who are no longer a part of our flesh-realm, but still wander amongst us. Our ancestors, the Old Prussians, said farewell to the departed by putting the dressed up dead body inside the household and feasting around it, like it was still an ordinary inmate. A version of that custom was not that long ago alive in some of our houses, here in northern and eastern Poland. A rite transformed by the time and culture, but its essence remained. On November 1st we connect with the world beyond, trying to find the thread that would help us to join with the departed. This song is our vocal attempt to create that link,” explains Lasota.
“This is a song from the new album, coming once again via M-Theory Audio in Spring 2026. The video contains glimpses of the album recordings that took place in Zamek Kapituły Warmińskiej in the town of Pieniężno. We recorded this one live as well, amongst these historic ruins. They are an essential part of our identity.”
As you’ll hear “Zwykli Zmarli” is a much more straight forward and intense VARMIA raging through a darkened track of raw primal black metal that still clings to their Baltic roots abetted by adding in percussion and traditional instrumentation.
Watch for more news and pre-order in the coming months for the fifth album from Poland’s VARMIA.
VARMIA was formed in 2016 by composer Lasota with a mission of fusing black metal with musical influences that pay tribute to the ancient Baltic tribes of the historical Warmia region of northern Poland. Vocally, harsh growls shroud the band's music and native Polish lyrics in a visceral aura, the only breaks occurring when using the traditional, ancient technique of “whitevoice” clean singing as utilized during ancient East-Central European rituals, rites of passage and festivals. Meanwhile, the power of the band's metal influences are enhanced by traditional ethnic instrumentation of the Baltic Rites via sounds of tagelharpa, goat horn, wood tuba and krivula. The final result is a compelling mix of dark metallic sounds that channel the spirit of early Enslaved, Satyricon and Wolves in the Throne Room and folk elements that drive acts such as Wardruna and Heilung.
VARMIA has released four albums to date – 2017's ‘Z mar twych,’ 2018's ‘W ciele nie,’ 2021’s ‘bal Lada,’ their first collaborating with M-Theory Audio, and 2023’s ‘Nie Nas Widze.’
