Artist: Kostnateni 
Title: Upal 
Label: Willowtip Records
Cat #: WT212
Release Year: 2023
Duration: Album
Format: CD
Packaging Type: Jewel Case

Upal is the second full-length album from the US black metal band Kostnateni.

The sophomore Kostnatění album ÚPAL ("heatstroke") is a story of the human condition as a function of heat. The rise of consciousness in warm-blooded creatures has given rise to impossibly dense, illogical webs of thought that can completely divorce our lived experience from the physical world around us. Anxiety, fixations, and hallucinations can appear without material basis, setting our overactive neurons on fire.

To bring this vivid scene to life, Kostnatění has become both more meditative and more chaotic, introducing influences from sources as varied as African folk and noise rock into its technical black metal basis. Evoking both the searing rays of the desert sun and the melting of one's sanity, ÚPAL walks the fine line between burning up and burning out.

Recommended if you like: Absu, Ulcerate, Aura Noir, Nifelheim, Necromantia, Ad Nauseum, Destroyer 666, Abigor, Beherit, Profanatica 

Track Listing:

1.Řemen (The Belt) 05:35
2.Hořím navždy (I Burn Forever) 07:43
3.Rukojmí empatie (Hostage of Empathy) 04:12
4.Opál (Opal) 04:00
5.Skrýt se před Bohem (Hide from God) 03:50
6.Nevolnost je vše, čím jsem (Nausea Is All I Am) 05:42
7.Slunce svázáno s krvácející Zemí (Sun Bound to the Bleeding Earth) 07:21