Review by Michael on June 22, 2026.

Spanish female-fronted black metal formation Spectr3 is back with their second regular studio album named "A Procession Of The Dead" via Solistitium Records. And this one gives you a nice chilly feeling crawling down your spine while Europe is burning to the ground because of a terrible heat wave and some fucked-up dictators wanting to restore some fictional empires.

Starting with "Torax", the listener gets a quite modern interpretation of black metal, something in-between good old Mysticum and Satyricon when they had their more industrial approach with "Rebel Extravaganza" and Gehenna meets old Darkthrone. Sounding pretty harsh but also peppered with a lot of catchiness and atmosphere, the songs never get lost and fulfill their intention in almost perfection. What is that? I guess it is some form of hatred, disgust and denial of everything. With every single note the band plays you can hear this misanthrophic philosophy and the whole album feels like someone spat a huge lump of snot into your face.

I already referred to "Rebel Extravaganza". Was this album kicking off the controversy about Satyricon (I remember when they thanked Diesel jeans for dressing them), "A Procession Of The Dead" is much easier to get access to. Be it because of the atmospheric keyboards that underfeed the harsh industrial sounds or be it because Satyricon did a crass stylistic break in 1999 after three excellent reference albums in the scene.

And here and there also some older Satyricon influences shine through the cold, sterile soundscape. "A Forest In Hell" for example starts a lot like "Mother North" and reminds a lot of the early 90s with the slight galloping drums and melodic guitars.

The shortest track (apart from the acoustic intermezzos) "The Restless Spirit Of The Screaming Woods" sounds a lot like Darkthrone when they did "Transilvanian Hunger" (another controversial album indeed). That one is brutal, harsh and partly dissonant – a fast and furious one.

In contrast stands "Blood Rituals In The House Of The Dead" where the atmosphere is absolutely the main focus. Keyboards build the main frame of that one and this all (to give another reference here) is a lot like anything from the first two Gehenna albums.

Oh, and did I say female-fronted from Spain? If you are a connoisseur of the Spanish metal scene you might have two possible women in mind. Ana of Haemorrhage or Lilith Necrobitch of Korgüll The Exterminator. So, who do you think it is? Hell, yeah, of course Lilith of the almighty Korgüll. And actually her vocals don't differ too much from her main band. The only thing that is quite different is that her vocal range in Spectr3 is a little bit more so that the songs don't sound monotonous when it comes to the voice.

And, to come to the production, at some point – although it is very harsh and rough as it fits quite well to this sort of black metal, it still is quite dynamic. For me personally, this production lacks nothing here and apart from the last track "Goddesses Of Vengeance" which is a quite slow, dissonant and disturbing track, "A Procession Of The Dead" has turned out to be a high quality black metal album and another really good release from the resurrected German label in 2026 which released albums such as "Grom" by Behemoth back in the 90s.

Rating: 9 out of 10