Third full-length album by the Odesa band with full saxophone integration in post-black metal format. Release 16 October 2026 on Debemur Morti Productions label.
White Ward presents the third studio album 'Eclipse' on 16 October 2026 on the French label Debemur Morti Productions — one of the planet's leading black metal labels. This is a 7-track LP (total duration 67 minutes) with full saxophone integration in post-black metal sound format. The album continues the band's conceptual cycle started with 'Love Exchange Failure' (2019) and 'False Light' (2022). Album concept — meditation on the absence of light in various forms: I. 'Eclipse of the Body' (10:24 — about physical illness); II. 'Eclipse of Memory' (8:42 — about amnesia, dementia); III. 'Eclipse of Mother' (12:18 — longest track, ballad-lament); IV. 'Eclipse of Country' (9:55 — about the aggression); V. 'Eclipse of Self' (7:30 — about existential absence); VI. 'Eclipse of Faith' (8:12 — religious crisis); VII. 'Eclipse: Total' (10:48 — finale, synthesis of all previous). Recording took place in two locations: Sunlight Studios in Stockholm (January-February 2026, metal part) and House Studio in Kyiv (March-April 2026, jazz part and vocal). Album saxophonist — Anton Sukhenko (Kyiv-Stockholm jazz scene). All 7 tracks contain over 3 minutes of solo saxophone sections. The album releases in formats: digital streaming, CD digipack, double LP vinyl in gold-burning version (limited 1200 copies). Presentation concert in Budapest (A38 Boat) on 22 October 2026.
