Zakaz - Merki Sólar

Facts New album from Zakaz – an ominous presence in the Icelandic black metal scene since 2012. Reinscription of the Primordial Sigil. With Merki Sólar, ZAKAZ emerges not merely as a musical entity, but as a vessel of ancestral recursion: an invocation of symbols buried beneath millennia of cultural sediment. These are not songs in the modern sense but ritualistic utterances drawn from the liminal space where proto-Norse intuition bleeds into pre-linguistic gnosis. The title, “Merki Sólar" (The Mark of the Sun), evokes one of the oldest sacred images known to man: the solar mark etched into bone, stone, and mind. In the hands of ZAKAZ, the sun is a pure encapsulation of ancient memory, a contrast to cultural decay, a beacon lost in the fog of spiritual entropy. Here, the solar sign is refracted through a lens of psychospiritual collapse, revealing ancient truths long obscured by modern neuroses. ZAKAZ does not reconstruct the past.