TODOMAL Share New Single 'Humanised Gods'!

Atmospheric doom collective TODOMAL have released “Humanised Gods”, the second single from their upcoming third album Graveyards of Joy, due July 3rd, 2026 on Season of Mist.

Where the album's first single, 'Point of Coalescence', opened on dense, uncompromising ground, 'Humanised Gods' offers a different kind of weight. Mid-tempo and melodic, the track draws its lyrical material from the excess and spectacle of the Claudian dynasty in ancient Rome: emperors regarded as demi-gods, figures onto whom desires and projections were freely cast. From there, the song widens its frame to address something more immediate: the hubris of contemporary individualism, the cult of the self, the particular vacancy that follows when admiration tips into deification. It is, within the arc of the album, a moment of relative relief, the music direct and unguarded in a way that the record's darker corners are not.

Musically, “Humanised Gods” sits at the more melodic end of the band's range without loosening its grip. The track belongs to a sound the band have been refining across three albums: doom metal's slow solemnity threaded through with cinematic scope, strong melodic songwriting and an ambient quality that gives the music room to settle.

Graveyards of Joy is the closing chapter of a trilogy that began with Ultracrepidarian(2021) and continued with A Greater Good (2023). Written in solitude following personal tragedy, the album draws on the landscapes and ghost towns of rural eastern Spain, a terrain the band describe as raw, honest and untamed. Nine tracks navigate grief, anger, loneliness and the search for something beyond. The album was produced by Christopher B. Wildman and Javier Fernandez Milla, mixed by Javier Fernandez Milla at Trinitat Montseny, and mastered by Jaime López Arellano at Arda Recorders (Portugal). Artwork is Lluís Rigalt's Ruïnes (1865), held at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.

TodoMal will spend much of the summer on the road, joining US funeral doom veterans Evoken across eleven European dates through late July and August, taking in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Festival appearances at Resurrection Fest (Viveiro, 4 July), Tolminator Fest (Tolmin, 24 July) and Party San Open Air (Schlotheim, 6 August) bookend the run. The band return to Spain in September for their Barcelona album release show at Bóveda on 18 September and a Madrid appearance at Dark Echoes Fest on 25 September, before closing the run at L'Homme Sauvage in France on 26 September.

TodoMal came to life in 2020, conceived by Anglo-Spanish musician and composer Christopher B. Wildman and musician, composer and producer Javier Fernández Milla: two veteran multi-instrumentalists of the Spanish underground scene whose careers span a wide range of projects and styles. A product of pure serendipity, TodoMal represents a deeply personal fusion of the solemnity of traditional doom metal and the expansiveness of space rock, interwoven with nuances of ecclesiastical music, classic hard rock and cinematic soundscapes.

 Their debut album, Ultracrepidarian (2021), evokes the placid yet desolate moorlands of their base in northern Alcarria and the region of Matarraña (Teruel), two emblematic landscapes of Spain's so-called "emptied lands." With A Greater Good(2023), the duo crafted a collection of what they describe as "dark songs," evolving into a complex, dense and unclassifiable album that appeared on several year-end lists and sold through its initial pressing. Fuelled by this momentum, they expanded into a five-piece live ensemble, joining forces with Javier Félez (guitar; Teitanblood, Graveyard, Balmog), Javier "Bud" Martínez (drums; Dejadeath, Jade, Ktulu) and Cecilia Tallo (keyboards/vocals; Maud the Moth).

 Graveyards of Joy is the third album and the closing chapter of a trilogy. Written in solitude following personal tragedy, it channels grief, anger and hard-won hope into nine tracks of slow-burning, widescreen doom. The music breathes: vast Hammond-driven passages give way to desolate folk, Morricone-like strings open onto dusty cinematic plains, and heavy riffs anchor songs that never lose sight of melody. A DIY record of striking emotional depth and modern, alternative edge.

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Recording Line-up:
Wildman – Guitars and Vocals

Mile – Bass and Vocals

Javi – Guitars

Bud – Drums

Cecilia – Synths and Vocals

Production Credits:

Recording Studio: Trinitat-Montseny / 7th Middle Street / Moontower Studios 

Producer: Javier Fernández Milla / Christopher B. Wildman; assisted by Javier Félez Rodríguez (drums recording and guitar engineering)

Mixing: Javier Fernández Milla at Trinitat Montseny

Mastering: Jaime López Arellano at Arda Recorders (Portugal)

Guest Musicians:
Cecilia Tallo (background vocals, tracks 4 and 6)

Teodora Gosheva (vocals)

Darío Garrido (acoustic guitars)

Manu Clavijo (live strings)

Cover Art:
Lluís Rigalt, Ruïnes (1865), Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya.

Photography:
Christopher B. Wildman

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