Release Date July 17th, 2026
Format Digital
Genre Thrash/Black Metal
Origin Canada
Eternal Drak formed in Latin America in 1997 through brothers Andres Martínez Torres, known as Drakar, and Eduardo Martínez, known as Warhammer. Rhythm guitarist Oscar Layton joined in 1998, and the band gained early notice through a City TV award for the video of “Eternal Drak.” The EP “La Resurreccion De La Orden Guerrera” arrived in 2002, followed by the self titled full length, made in 2005 and issued in 2012. After the 2007 split, Drakar revived Eternal Drak in Quebec during 2020, dedicating the return to Warhammer, the late cofounder and drummer.
A steady run followed through “The Past Is Gone, A New One Is Coming,” “Drak Metal,” “Shadow Storm,” “Interdimensional War Of Satan,” “Imprisoned Souls,” and “The Warrior Order.” During those years, the lineup changed several times, while Drakar remained the central writer and musician. The present studio lineup features Drakar on voice, lead guitar, and bass, alongside Michel Amyot on rhythm guitar. Across its history, Eternal Drak has mixed thrash and black metal with touches of death metal, melody, and a darker lyrical focus shaped by human decline, spiritual conflict, mortality, and distorted perception.
“The Violence Of Time” lasts thirty eight minutes and contains ten songs, with Drakar handling production, mixing, mastering, songwriting on nine cuts, and the artwork. Michel Amyot contributed one composition, adding another hand within an album largely overseen by one musician. The sound joins black metal chill, thrash velocity, death metal severity, and the blunt pulse of old Motörhead, with keyboards and grander melodic lines appearing in measured doses. Guitar work stays central, moving between tremolo patterns, clipped riffing, and lead lines that add color without turning the album into a display of technique.
Drakar’s voice sits between a rasp and a bark, suited to lyrics where time acts as an enemy that erodes memory, causality, choice, and human importance. The production has enough definition for the riffs to register, while retaining a raw edge that stops the album from becoming overly neat. Several songs use related rhythmic shapes, narrowing the range during the second half, and a few transitions arrive with little warning. The compact running time limits that issue and the closing stretch restores momentum through faster riff changes and darker melodic movement. “The Violence Of Time” is focused, severe, and written with an old school extreme metal instinct, offering a cohesive attack with enough variation to hold attention across the full album.
|7.5
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