Germany's black metal force Dauþuz will return on 29 May with their sixth full‑length, Todeswerk: Uranium II, arriving via Amor Fati Productions on CD and vinyl. The album's opening preview, "Joachimsthal – Jáchymov", is already available for listening.

Active since 2016, Dauþuz have carved out their own niche of "mining black metal", consistently delivering work of striking quality. Two years after Uranium, its successor emerges — a continuation of their melodic, '90s‑rooted black metal spirit, yet one that still finds room for fresh tension, nuance, and dynamism. The duo strike once more with sharpened intent, this time joined by session drummer Werwolf, whose performance lends the record additional weight and depth. Acoustic guitars also make a notable return, channelling the project's characteristic mountain melancholy — now steeped in utter desolation. Musically, the band lean into a harsher edge while retaining the varied vocal textures familiar from the Bergkgesænge era.

As its title implies, Todeswerk: Uranium II again centres on the history of uranium mining in the years following the Second World War. This chapter, however, shifts its gaze towards the brutalised forced labourers and victims of the Joachimsthal region and Bohemia. The record casts light on the inhumane conditions within the mines, industrial complexes, and camps operated first by the Soviets and later by the Communist regime, as well as the slow devastation of an entire landscape. Thousands of miners, driven to exhaustion and death, paid the price for the Soviet pursuit of the atomic bomb — a legacy of suffering and torment that Dauþuz now confront with unflinching clarity. Link