Carriers of a melodic death/thrash sound, Moroccan band Sakadoya are showing signs of life again after calling it quits back in 2011. Their legacy at the time was a single full-length, Back to the Age of Slaves. In 2019, the original members of the quintet decided to get back to work, and now, late in 2025, they’ve released “Burn Bright My Dear,” the first taste of the band’s second chapter, with a new record titled The Will.
Lyrically, “Burn Bright My Dear” follows a transformation ritual in the woods: the narrator walks through mist toward sacred trees, and what comes next is less spiritual comfort than a violent rebirth. The song keeps returning to pain as the price of change: bones breaking, skin shedding, the body mutating, until there’s nothing left of the human self.
As for the sound itself, the passing years seem to have brought a welcome change to the band’s weight and production, and it feels like we’re dealing with a new, unfamiliar beast with a voracious appetite for destruction.
Listen to the single on YouTube:
