American death/funeral doom legends Evoken have released “None,” the latest single from their upcoming full-length Mendacium, due out October 17 via Profound Lore Records. The single arrives with a haunting milestone: the band’s first-ever music video, directed, produced, and edited by Eva Tusquets.
Evoken drummer Vince Verkay describes the song as a meditation on suffering and spiritual collapse: “‘None’ invokes a monk’s inner torment. It’s a cinematic descent between faith and desire.”
The track builds upon Mendacium’s concept — a fourteenth-century elderly Benedictine monk wasting away in his cell, trapped between divine devotion and mortal frailty. Wracked by illness and ceaseless pain, he encounters a grotesque entity crawling through a tear in reality. The central question lingers: is this a supernatural tormentor, or the monk’s own mind unraveling hour by hour?
Mendacium marks a shift back toward Evoken’s most oppressive, dirge-like heaviness, recalling the suffocating weight of Quietus and Antithesis of Light. While their 2018 opus Hypnagogia leaned into melancholic and more tangible textures, Mendacium is set to plunge deeper into cavernous dread — weaving in elements of gothic ambience, experimental mire, and echoes of visionaries like Dead Can Dance, Monumentum, and Disembowelment.
Produced by Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal, who previously worked with Evoken on Antithesis of Light and Quietus, the album has been hailed as the band’s most powerful-sounding record to date. The cover art comes from the artist Worthless. Pre-orders are available here.
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