# Austrian death metal band GRIMMING announces debut album Jagatod for November 2026 **New Music** — On Your Markus **Published:** 11 November 2026 **Author:** Markus Hamence **Source:** https://onyourmarkus.au/new-music-releases/grimming-jagatod/ Austrian death metal band GRIMMING will release their debut album Jagatod on November 27, 2026 via Napalm Records. The concept album, written in Styrian dialect, explores Alpine history and folklore including witch trials, famine, plague and folk tragedies, with lead single "Pankh" now available. --- **GRIMMING Austrian Death Metal Newcomers Announce Debut Album Jagatod For March 26, 2027 via Napalm Records** **Sinister First Single “*****Pankh” *****Available Now!** ![Grimming band logo above a figure holding a lantern in a dark mountain valley, with "Jagatod" text below.](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/admin/2026/11/812cae42-7faf-4537-bf88-5ab40e55ccf3.jpg) Monumental as the mountain they’re named after, Austria’s **GRIMMING** finally release their debut album, ***Jagatod*** (Engl. “hunter’s death”), on November 27, 2026 via Napalm Records. Two released songs was all it took for the young death metal band in traditional garments to support Ukrainians 1914 on their international tour and play at renowned Ragnarök festival, and the album now tops their success. Written entirely in their native dialect, ***Jagatod*** is a concept album capturing the history and folklore of Styria - the Alpine home **GRIMMING** share with their label. Joining the announcement is the first single. *“Pankh”* offers a glimpse into the first topic block of the album in which **GRIMMING** cover older Styrian history. Contrasting the idyllic image that we associate with the Alpine region with its grim tales, *“Pankh”* deals with the witch trials that also reached Austria between the 16th and 18th century. Fitting to its brutal death metal nature, the song focuses on the violent torture chair. **GRIMMING about *****“Pankh”*****:** *“‘Pankh’ was one of the first songs we wrote for ****GRIMMING**** and therefore also for ****Jagatod****. The song is dynamic and represents the album incredibly well as a first single.* *The story of the Styrian witch trials is cruel and yet gripping, especially when it comes to ‘typically Styrian’ torture methods. One of these was supposedly the ‘Pankh’, a type of torture chair. It was the third and final degree of torture in Styria and was used until the 1720s.”* **Watch the Official Music Video For *****“Pankh”*** [Watch on YouTube](https://youtu.be/kFD5-tB3fcQ) **GRIMMING**’s debut comes in weighty. Tales of perdition paint a different image of the Alpine region than is known from picturesque postcards, with the young musicians’ trenchant death metal scourging the scene with the force of the relentless mountain weather. ***Jagatod*** is as mighty and striking as its setting and just as perennial. **GRIMMING about *****Jagatod*****:** *“****Jagatod**** is our first try at composing a coherent record. Initially, we wanted to venture more into traditional Florida death metal. Ultimately, that is barely audible on the album. We put in a lot of melodies and bet on groove and midtempo, additionally borrowing some elements from black metal.* *The lyrics are in our first language, Styrian dialect. Unlike we did it with our very first single ‘Lindwurm’, we fully focused on Styrian and Alpine history with our lyrics. The goal was to shed some light on life and pain of the old mountain people.* *We managed to write a well-rounded album that we are proud to present to the world!”* **Get Your Copy of *****Jagatod*** [lnk.to/Grimming-Jagatod/napalmrecords](http://lnk.to/Grimming-Jagatod/napalmrecords) Introducing the setting for ***Jagatod*** is *“Alpensymphonie”*: **GRIMMING** place their tales between scenic valleys and windswept summit crosses, chiseling their riffs into crags and driving relentless words over icy tarns. *“Pankh”* shows how grim the atmosphere can get: inspired by the witch trials of the 16th to 18th centuries, focusing on the gruesome torture method of a specific inquisition chair, the song kicks off the first of the two topic blocks of the album - older Styrian history. This also covers the dragging *“Zwoa Joah”* (Engl. “two years”), which recounts 1816, also known as the “Year without A Summer”. Europe was met with unusual weather phenomena; freeze-ups also led to crop failures and famine in Austria, according to contemporary witnesses. *“Pesthigl”* (Engl. “pest hill”) turns the speed up again and describes the Black Death pandemic of the mid-1300s in a tested brutal death metal way - gory descriptions of the symptoms included. *“Stodlbrond”* (Engl. “barn fire”) opens the second chapter of ***Jagatod,*** in which **GRIMMING** devote themselves to the individual fates of more recent Styrian history and folk culture. Following the conflagration that costs a farmer his family and property is the brutal day-to-day of a woodcutter with *“Hoizara”*. *“Lahn” *is pressing like the titular avalanche, roaring and heavy. The previously released *“Wüdschitz”* (Engl. “poacher”), which introduced the band’s Napalm signing in 2025, finds an album home on ***Jagatod*** and gets a sequel with the title track. Together, they tell the tragic tale of a man forced into poaching due to famine. Hauntingly cold death metal accentuates the fight for survival against winter’s grasp and obstructive hunting laws - until the bitter end. Ending the album is a sinister song: Introduced by calm guitars, contrasting the perilous howling of the wind, **GRIMMING** address the psychological impact of the lonely work in secluded alps on shepherds - a phenomenon mixing hallucinations, paranoia, anxiety, and depression, named *“Sennerwahn”* in Alpine folk medicine. The physical editions of ***Jagatod*** also include the viral hit, *“Lindwurm”*, in a remastered version. ![Four musicians in dark formal wear stand against a dramatic mountainous backdrop.](https://media.onyourmarkus.au/admin/2026/11/77157d7e-c2e8-4fe9-aae2-911257078873.jpg)