Mammon's Throne-"dark tales perfect for an unholy sermon in a cursed cathedral" PREPARE FOR THE RIFF ASSAULT!!!

 MAMMON'S THRONE

Mammon's Throne-"dark tales perfect for an unholy sermon in a cursed cathedral" -PREPARE FOR THE RIFF ASSAULT!!!-

AS PART OF:

BLACK PLANET
25TH JULY TWO VENUES THREE STAGES 21 BANDS


O come, creatures of the night!
Bear witness to BLACK PLANET: A Celebration of Australian Dark Music.



Descending for the first time as a full-spectrum gathering of darkness, Black Planet hosts 3 stages across two iconic venues: The Bendigo Hotel & Nighthawks. Built for devotees of sonic extremity and shadow culture, this inaugural edition transforms the night into a living cathedral of sound, atmosphere, and chaos.

The night will be separated into 3 spaces:

The Ossuary (Bendi Main Room) - A shrine to brutality and all things heavy
The Void (Bendi Upstairs) - A chamber devoted to noise, ambient, drone and experimental
The Black Hearts Lodge (Nighthawks) - A sanctuary of goth, darkwave, post-punk and nocturnal romance


Headlining Black Planet 2026 is THE AMENTA - One of metal's most uncategorizable acts, THE AMENTA have been synthesising the ugliest aspects of death, black, and noise into a unique maelstrom for over 25 years. Well-known across the world for their intense live shows, THE AMENTA combine speed, anger, and a weird sound with smoke and strobes to create a brutal, overwhelming experience.



Joining them across the 3 stages are: Mammon’s Throne, Hybrid Nightmares, Victoria K, Küntsquäd, Bentham’s Head, Knife, Npcede, Živa, Inaugural, Chiffon Magnifique, Blood In The Champagne, Dystropolis, Palliative, Blood of a Pomegranate, Military Position, Anocht, AnnaBortionist, Serene Ailment, Angellis Taliuu, and Koolooz.

The Ossuary is Black Planet's shrine to brutality and heaviness — the room built for physical, overwhelming extremity, one stage below headliner THE AMENTA. But even within that single room the range is real: death, black and doom all get bent into shape by different acts across the night, which is really the whole thesis of Black Planet in miniature — heaviness isn't one sound, it's a whole ecosystem, and this is a night built to prove it.


ARTIST: MAMMON'S THRONE

Mammon's Throne are a Melbourne death-doom outfit who released their third full-length, My Body to the Worms, via Hammerheart Records in March 2026 — mastered by Fredrik Nordström (Opeth, At the Gates, In Flames) and pitched at fans of Candlemass, My Dying Bride, Bolt Thrower and Paradise Lost. The album leans on a genuinely wide vocal range — mournful laments, cavernous growls and banshee shrieks — built into theatrical, narrative-driven songwriting rather than straight blunt-force death metal. Landing the penultimate Ossuary slot, right before THE AMENTA closes it out, puts them in one of the heaviest positions on the whole bill.



INTERVIEW:

1. The Ossuary's pitched as "a shrine to brutality." Heaviness gets used as a blunt word a lot — what does brutality actually mean in what Mammon's Throne do? Is it physical, sonic, emotional, all three?


 I'd definitely say all three. If you haven't seen us before, our live shows are dramatic, energetic, deeply emotional and most importantly, LOUD!



2. What do you bring into that room that nobody else on the Ossuary bill is bringing?


A sense of dark, engrossing theatricality while still remaining organic and heavy metal.




3. Black Planet's being pitched as a "living cathedral of sound" — where does your most recent release, or whatever's next in the pipe, sit inside that? Anything dropping around the show OR GIGS we should know about first?


We weave dark tales perfect for an unholy sermon in a cursed cathedral. Having released our last album, "My Body to the Worms" back in March, we're not quite ready to reveal the next chapter as it's still early days in the process for that. Our focus for after Black Planet is very much on delivering killer performances at the upcoming Candlemass shows, since we're supporting them on their Australian tour in Sep/Oct.





4. This is billed as a celebration of Australian dark music specifically. What does that qualifier — Australian — actually mean to what Mammon's Throne does, if anything? And why does this underground still matter to you, this far in?


The common ground between Australian musicians is that we all have to work extra hard on our craft. Touring and visibility are much more challenging as we're fairly isolated from the main countries where our kind of music is really thriving. We may stand apart from what you typically think of when you think of Australian metal, but we have that ethos driving us. The underground is so important because that is where we developed strong friendships and a support network that we're eternally grateful for, and the smaller, more intimate shows still bring us so much joy.




5. Bendigo and Nighthawks are two venues, three rooms, one night. What are you actually trying to do to a room when you play it — what's the physical or psychic effect you're chasing?


We want the room totally engrossed. If that's people moshing, headbanging or simply being captivated and watching intently, then we consider it a success. People express themselves in different ways, so if they're doing that, we're happy to have reached them.



6. Seeing you have won the hearts of Melbourne and Australia, how did the killer linkage to Hammerheart Records happen, they have some serious bands on that label?


We reached out to them with our album, and they got back to us very quickly, saying they were keen to put it out. They were a label we were hoping to work with due to their current and past roster, as well as the fact that they'd worked with some great Australian bands in the past. We're thrilled with the collaboration so far and can't wait to see what the future holds.

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KILLER PRICES TO BE HONEST;
Both venues: $75+BF
The Bendigo Hotel Only: $45+BF
Nighthawks Only: $35+BF







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