Buffalo, NY’s HUBRIS has broken radio silence with “Lightless Lantern,” a first look at their forthcoming full-length Acts of Sedition. The track surfaced this week with an early listen via No Clean Singing’s Shades of Black, whose write-up hears the song as a shifting battlefield – megaton bass lines, battering – ram and machine – gun percussion, writhing/ripping riffage, and unchained vocal barbarism that mutates into “bloodthirsty delirium.”
Listen
- Bandcamp (official): truehubris.bandcamp.com — “Lightless Lantern.”
The song: a fuse that keeps burning
“Lightless Lantern” wastes no time establishing intent. The bass stays in motion, forcing the guitars to carve open lanes rather than ride them; the drums swing between blunt-force cadence and sudden volleys; the vocal is scraped raw. It’s the sound of momentum choosing you. NCS calls out how the piece changes direction as it evolves, spiking from throat-grip ferocity into a more expansive, diabolically grand second half without losing the kill-move power of the first.
Where HUBRIS have been—and why this matters now
HUBRIS first stamped their name into Buffalo’s underground with a self-titled debut in 2012, then followed with the Winds of Iniquity split and EPs including Hatred & Black Magick and Regency of Hungering Swords (2019). The Bandcamp catalog traces that arc in full.
After a stretch of relative quiet on the release front, the new single signals the band’s second full-length is finally incoming. No Clean Singing’s feature frames Acts of Sedition as a long-awaited return after years since the last EP – a return that sounds unrepentant and newly focused.
Origin, style, and the Buffalo factor
Per Encyclopaedia Metallum, HUBRIS formed in 2007 in Buffalo, New York, operating within a raw, old-school black-metal lineage. That checks out with the aesthetic on the early releases—unpolished by design, impact first.
On social channels, the band self-describes as “Raw, unapologetic Black Metal from New York,” and they’ve teased history notes pointing to an origin led by brothers Hellskald and Lichfiend (with early collaborator Melkorpse) and a lineup solidified when Deragore took the drum seat—context that underscores why the rhythm section hits with such continuity.
If “Lightless Lantern” is the map…
…then Acts of Sedition is charting toward a record where speed, weight, and scorched-earth melody share equal footing: tempo feints that feel like ambushes, bass in constant migration, and leads that illuminate without softening the blow. If you’ve been waiting since Regency of Hungering Swords for a long-form statement, this sounds like the door finally opening.
Voice of Noir – Quick Take
No ornament, all torque. “Lightless Lantern” tightens the room until the walls change shape—and then lights the exit just long enough to sprint.
Voice Of Noir 
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