Transilvania – Magia Posthuma
Transilvania – Magia Posthuma
Invictus Productions
Release Date: 13/03/2026
Review by Laura Barnes
10,000/10
There comes a time in every reviewer’s life in which she must throw off the shackles of professionalism and start vomiting and shitting everywhere. For too long, I have hidden beneath the veneer of civility while my true self rolls around on the floor with a frothing mouth and ringing ears, and I cannot keep up the facade any longer.
“Magia Posthuma” has me ripping out my hair and stomping on the floor. “Magia Posthuma” has me eating my toenails and howling at the moon. “Magia Posthuma” has its fangs sunk deep into my heart, and I don’t think it will ever, ever let go.
In a world in which ten minute long Shoegaze interludes keep sneaking their way onto Black Metal albums, Transilvania provides a welcome antidote. Their particular brand of Musical Evil has a lethal dose of Thrash injected into it, and has the same frenzied, frosty bite as bands like Immortal and Thulcandra.
Title-track ‘Magia Posthuma’ opens the album in an explosive, immediate fashion. Have you ever seen those human-sized fruitbats that live in the Philippines? If not, you should Google them, and then imagine being chased by, like, 50 of them. That’s what listening to ‘Magia Posthuma’ feels like.
Really, it’s hard to describe this album without the use of increasingly goofy metaphors. Transilvania are just so loud, so wild, so extreme, and so silly that horror comics from the 1980s are the only cultural comparison that seems appropriate. Take ‘Set The Tombs On Fire’ for example – it’s the perfect soundtrack for absolutely brainless headbanging, and even has a booming, chorus-like entity sprinkled throughout that you can howl along to (“Set the tombs on… FI-YAAAAAAH!”).
However, it does seem that Transilvania exhibit at least a cursory level of concern for Listener Spinal Health. ‘A Tower To Confess’ doesn’t hit the brakes so much as tap them, but on an album as hypersonic as this, the change of pace is significant. There’s a Dark Funeral-esque level of bombast on this one as Transilvania build up the song layer by layer, until it reaches an epic crescendo.
One of the best things about this album, though, is its production. It’s clean enough that you can make out every instrument in all its raging glory, but it doesn’t have that overly-glossy sheen that can transform great musicianship into total Metalslop (if you know, you know). I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I love love LOVE it when form mirrors content, so the fact that every song on this album sounds like it’s echoing through Dracula’s Castle feels like a gift to me, personally.
I mean, Christ, even the release date is in-character. What do you mean, you’re releasing your album on Friday the 13th? I love this stupid little genre. Does anyone know where I can buy a good cape?
TRACKLISTING:
01. Magia Posthuma
02. Thrall
03. Set The Tombs on Fire
04. Tuberculosis Reigns
05. A Tower To Confess
06. Hallows Of The Heir
07. Poenari By Night
08. The Faustian Bargain
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