Victim Path - ''Aggression isn’t just rage. Its energy built up from pain''
- Sparky
- May 27
- 4 min read
The creation of Victim Path and your pursuit to create pure black metal?
V01D (guitar) ‘It wasn’t a decision — more of an inner necessity. A need to express something primal, bleak, and uncompromising. Victim Path is the path of one who suffers but seeks no redemption. The idea of "pure" black metal is not about stylistic boundaries — it’s about honesty in sound and intent.
The new album "Lost in Stellar Dust."
‘’This album is another spiral in the inward journey. It feels colder, deeper, perhaps more detached. Everything that happens to us finds its way into the sound — disappointment, loss, the search for meaning. It’s not evolution for the sake of change; it’s a natural flow.
The loneliness of a person deprived of the right to be God's creation.
‘’It’s like existing outside any coordinates, where there’s neither light nor darkness — and no witness. To be denied the divine is to be free but forgotten. That loneliness becomes a source of sound.
Is it something that you feel? Is there no joy at all?
‘’I do feel it. And there is joy, though of a different kind — the kind that comes from heightened perception, from awareness of your otherness. It’s not a bright joy, but it is sincere.
Has darkness consumed light, or in the circular nature will it return?
‘’Light is just another way to see darkness. Everything returns, but never in the same form. Consumption is a part of the cycle. Death is also a movement.
The combination of beauty and decay?
‘’That is the essence of life: all beauty is doomed, and in decay lies a certain symmetry, texture, and rhythm. Black metal is not just about destruction — it’s about the contemplation of it.
The importance of the ritual and atmosphere?
‘’It’s essential. Without ritual, it’s just sound. Without atmosphere, it’s just noise. Ritual gives structure to chaos, and atmosphere — breath.
It is also a pure aggressive assault. The importance of expressing such aggression sonically?
‘’Aggression isn’t just rage. Its energy built up from pain, confusion, helplessness. It must be heard. Sound is its language.
Your ideology and the loneliness, isolation within your music?
‘’Both. We are products of our surroundings, but also their mirrors. These states are universal — they transcend geography. Isolation is not always a punishment. Sometimes, it’s purification.
Have they always been a priority?
‘’Yes. But over time, they stop being just themes — they become the essence of the work itself.
The importance of presenting a true expression of oneself through your music?
‘’Sincerity isn’t always about confession or emotion. Sometimes it’s just the refusal to pretend. No need to please or play along. Music is a form of exposure — and every lie is audible. You can hide behind noise, aggression, metaphor — but true sincerity still breaks through. Without it, only a shell remains.
Do you define extreme as how much one puts themselves into their art honestly and fearlessly?
’’Yes. Extremity is not speed, or loudness, or rage. It’s depth. Honest intensity — that’s what truly disturbs and liberates.
Will the creation of uncompromising music always be the goal of Victim Path?
‘’Always. Any compromise is a step back. Even silence, if it comes, will be honest.
Final thoughts?
‘’Don’t search for meaning — let it find you. And if it turns out to be emptiness — embrace that too.
Top 6 albums of all time?
Burzum – Filosofem (1996) A monument to isolation. This album sounds like winter stretched into infinity. No resolution, no warmth — just echoes of something irreversibly lost.
Bethlehem – Dictius Te Necare (1996) Madness given voice. It’s not performance — it’s rupture. Pain here is not metaphorical. It bleeds into the sound, clawing through every second.
Mgła – Exercises in Futility (2015) Relentless, disciplined nihilism. No false hope, no narrative arc — just the pure clarity of futility, repeated until it becomes sacred.
Shining – V – Halmstad (2007) This is not just depressive black metal — it’s self-destruction made audible. Beautifully composed yet terrifying in content, Halmstad merges classical motifs, cold riffs, and suicidal poetry into a single, suffocating experience. It’s as if the music is both the weapon and the wound.
A mirror you can’t look away from — because it reflects the part of you that wants to vanish.
Silencer – Death – Pierce Me (2001) A myth. A breakdown captured in real time. This album feels like someone being devoured from the inside, screaming not for help — but from the sheer existential pressure of being.Vocals that are barely human, melodies that are both haunting and strangely beautiful. A fever dream of decay, where suffering becomes transcendence.
Deathspell Omega – Si Monumentum Requires, Circumspice (2004) The sound of theological violence and divine absence. It strips away illusion and replaces it with abyssal logic. Not music — but rituals and revolt.
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