After nearly a decade of silence, Pyramids return with their most ambitious work yet. Pythagoras, their long-awaited new album, is set for release in 2025 via The Flenser. True to form, Pyramids continue their boundary-pushing approach, fusing the raw intensity of black metal and shoegaze with unexpected elements of reggaeton and neoperreo, creating a sound both hypnotic and harrowing.

Named after the ancient Greek philosopher, Pythagoras reflects the band’s ongoing fascination with innovation, structure, and contrast, weaving intricate musical textures that shift between the ethereal and the extreme. At its core, the album explores a bold rhythmic juxtaposition—blast beats colliding with the syncopated pulse of reggaeton’s dembow rhythm—a concept driven by founder Rich Loren Balling’s immersion in both extreme and pop music forms.

“One need only trace a simple lineage like Black Sabbath through Darkthrone to see that over time, music compounds itself towards the extreme, until one day it is so extreme and dense and noise-rich, that the brutal transitions into bliss.  The sonic palette is then cleansed and the listener can start the cycle over again. It isn’t difficult to see the leap from Transilvanian Hunger to a work like Jesu’s Conqueror. I surmise that some of the most innovative music in the last decade has taken place in female pop, and even more specifically, in female neoperreo and reggaeton. After years of listening to extreme metal and harsh noise, this was my ground zero for the next reinvention.” -Rich Loren

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