{"id":35652,"date":"2025-11-07T16:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/merciful-nuns-abysmal-darkness\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T16:39:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T15:39:35","slug":"merciful-nuns-abysmal-darkness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/en\/merciful-nuns-abysmal-darkness\/","title":{"rendered":"MERCIFUL NUNS: Abysmal darkness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MercifulNuns-550x550.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-35649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MercifulNuns-550x550.jpg 550w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MercifulNuns-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MercifulNuns-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MercifulNuns-636x636.jpg 636w, https:\/\/orkus1.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/MercifulNuns.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>With the new single &#8220;Occvlanth&#8221;, <strong>Merciful Nuns<\/strong> provide a further insight into their new album &#8220;Finist\u00e8re&#8221;, which will be released on November 20, 2025. On the trail of a lost civilization, <strong>Merciful Nuns<\/strong> lead us into a complex story and also offer space for the personal dark abysses that lie within us. <\/p>\n\n<p>&#8220;Her eyes were black &#8211; not from their color, but from their emptiness, as if they contained absence itself. In her left hand she carried the Occvlanth: a ring of burnt iron, animated by pulsing runes that spun even when the hand was still. The elders called it the First Compass, a compass for the afterlife, the last relic of Kvltan &#8211; that lost civilization whose priests could bend time and conjure memories from stone. No one taught her the rituals. But she knew. And the Occvlanth hummed.&#8221; (Artaud Seth)<\/p>\n\n<p>In our winter issue, we conduct an in-depth interview with mastermind Artaud Seth.<\/p>\n\n<p>Watch the epic video for &#8220;Occvlanth&#8221;, which was shot in an extraordinary location (Dans la Crypte Rosa\u2020Crvx) in Rouen:<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PPm8O7hmHeE?si=edbHLiJCLBPVz0fJ\" title=\"MERCIFUL NUNS - OCCVLANTH\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PPm8O7hmHeE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n<p><strong>Merciful Nuns &#8211; Tourdates:<br\/><\/strong>November 15, 2025 ES-Madrid, Santuario Festival<br\/>10. 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