Lux Interna - New Wilderness Gospel (2025)

Creating a truly haunting and intoxicating dark folk release with tons of influences from post-punk to gothic americana, Lux Interna is finally back with the immersive “New Wilderness Gospel”, full length release. Featuring nine tracks of fully immersive music, this release is full of crafty instrumentation and captivating compositions that need more than a few spins to fully unravel themselves to the listener. If you liked any of the band’s previous releases and/or outfits like Rome, Amber Asylum, King Dude, etc. you can’t miss out on this album.

Opening with the somberness of “Dark Fire Revelator”, the band comes back after ten years in full force, unleashing a very lush onslaught. The richness of the band’s instrumentation creates very unique and engaging soundscapes that are fun to digest and very powerful, as tracks like “Over the Timberlines”, “Brittle”, and one of our favorites “Like Wolves”. There early vibe in this release is a mixture of King Dude with Tenhi, Nest, and even some non-Metal Empyrium hints, We love how Kris T. Force infuses melancholy to “Like Wolves”, creating a very mellow and yet sublime atmosphere alongside Joshua Levi Ian’s vocals and guitars.

Things also get a bit heavier on some occasions, with songs like “Into the Night” featuring some very cathartic moments with distorted guitars and crafty guitar leads, alongside dramatic string arrangements. This release has a bit of everything, as other songs like “Old Blood Blues” have that dark folk/neo-folk roots with a very powerful and solemn progression. Saving the most complex and longest tracks for last, “Her Wilderness” and “Selva Oscura” have a twangy Appalachian folk meets post-punk shine to them.

As a whole, “New Wilderness Gospel” is a very rich album with tons of different layers and influences. However, there is always an underlying darkness to it that makes it quite intoxicating and engaging. If you are in the market for something unique and extremely well crafted, this is one release to not miss out on. We are glad that Lux Interna is back with such a magical release and hope to catch them live at some point again.

Label: Auerbach Tonträger

Release: May 2nd, 2025

Genre: Dark Folk

Country: USA