WHEN PRIDE FALLSโฆ THE RIFFS HIT HARDER, MUN ๐ค๐
Right then, buttโฆ grab a black hoodie, dim the lights, and prepare your soul for a proper emotional battering โ because Spainโs doom/death heavyweights Golgotha are back, and theyโre not here to tuck you in nicely. Oh no. Theyโve brought Hubris, and itโs basically eight tracks of beautiful devastation wrapped in riffs thick enough to sink a ship. ๐โฐ๏ธ
Dropping 24 April 2026 via Abstract Emotions, this isnโt just another metal album โ itโs a slow-motion collapse of the human spirit set to crushing guitars and haunting melodies.
๐ FROM HOPEโฆ TO HOLLOW
Following their towering 2024 release Spreading The Wings Of Hope, Golgotha have flipped the script hard. If that album had a flicker of light, Hubris blows it out and leaves you alone in the dark with your thoughtsโฆ and trust us, theyโre not friendly ones. ๐ฌ
The band themselves put it bluntly:
โThese are not fictional stories, but fragments of real life turned into music.โ
And you can feel it, mun. Every note sounds lived-in. Every lyric feels like itโs been dragged through heartbreak, loss, and the kind of late-night overthinking that hits harder than a double bass pedal to the chest. ๐ฅ๐
๐ง TRACK-BY-TRACK EMOTIONAL DAMAGE (THE GOOD KIND)
๐ค A Simple Life
Kicks things off with Marรญa J. Lladรณโs raw, exposed vocals โ delicate, almost fragileโฆ until the band crashes in like a tidal wave of doom. Instant chills. Proper spine-tingler.
๐ฉ Broken Toy
Big, crawling riffs meet emotional whiplash. Harsh growls collide with Marรญaโs clean vocals, creating that classic doom/death contrast โ beauty vs brutality, like angels fighting in a collapsing cathedral.
๐ Too Late
Slow, suffocating heavinessโฆ until a melodic chorus cracks through the darkness like a dying sun. Then BOOM โ a solo bursts out like fire in the fog. Unreal stuff.
โฐ๏ธ Blind
Feels like a royal funeral for your emotions. Massive, sombre, haunting. One line hits like a truck:
โI became just an echoโฆโ
Yeahโฆ that one sticks, mun.
๐ฅ Intolerance (Closing Track)
A final clash between sorrow and rage โ grief turned into sound. No happy endings here, just raw truth and emotional wreckage.
โ๏ธ FORGED IN DARKNESS
To capture this beast properly, Golgotha teamed up with producer Davide Billia (Antropofagus, Beheaded, Posthuman Abomination), and fair play โ the manโs nailed it. The album sounds HUGE. Not polished-for-radio hugeโฆ but cavernous, suffocating, you-can-feel-it-in-your-bones huge. ๐ค๐
๐ฅ THE LINE-UP BEHIND THE PAIN
- ๐ธ Vicente J. Paya โ Guitar / Keys / Vocals
- ๐ค Andrew Spinoza โ Bass / Harsh Vocals
- ๐ฅ Rafel Garcies โ Drums
- ๐ถ Marรญa J. Lladรณ โ Clean Vocals
- ๐ธ Dan Garcia โ Guitars
Absolute unit of a band, mind.
๐ถ FOR FANS OFโฆ
If your playlist leans towards:
๐ Candlemass
๐ Novembers Doom
๐ Paradise Lost
๐ My Dying Bride
โฆthen tidy, youโre already halfway in the pit for this one.
๐ค THE RIFF REPORT VERDICT
This isnโt background music. This isnโt โstick it on while youโre doing the washing up.โ Nah.
Hubris is the kind of album that sits you down, stares you in the face, and goes:
โRight thenโฆ letโs deal with some feelings.โ
Itโs heavy. Itโs honest. Itโs bleak as a rainy Tuesday in Port Talbotโฆ and we absolutely love it. ๐ง๏ธ๐ค
Golgotha have delivered a record that doesnโt just hit hard โ it lingers. It crawls under your skin, sits in your chest, and refuses to leave.
And honestly? Thatโs exactly what great doom metal should do.
๐ ESSENTIAL INFO
- ๐ Release Date: 24 April 2026
- ๐ท๏ธ Label: Abstract Emotions
- ๐ต Genre: Melodic Doom / Death Metal
- ๐ Vibe: Emotional destruction, but make it beautiful
If youโre into riffs that feel like the sky collapsing and vocals that hit you right in the soulโฆ
Hubris is an absolute must-spin, mun. ๐ค๐ฅ
