A familiar name within the Bloody Chunks Records roster, Mundane have officially released their second studio album, “Nại Hà,” a ten-track descent into unrelenting, violent death metal. Known for their decisive and crushing sound, Mundane do not attempt reinvention here. “Nại Hà” doubles down on what the band has consistently delivered: heavy, direct, and unapologetically brutal death metal that leaves little room for compromise.
The album’s title draws from “Nại Hà,” the legendary bridge said to exist in the underworld of East Asian and Buddhist folklore. In those traditions, the bridge serves as a crossing point between life and reincarnation a symbolic threshold between memory and oblivion.
That imagery bleeds directly into the record’s atmosphere. Across its ten tracks, “Nại Hà” carries themes and titles as blood-soaked and haunting as the concept behind its name. The tone is bleak, violent, and immersive, leaning fully into the darker corners of myth and mortality.
