Tanin'iver - Save the Rest for the Wicked | South Australia blackened death metal

Hearken, mortals of the metal realm: from the blistering heart of Adelaide, South Australia there emerges a thing of fang and flame - Tanin’iver, the blackened death metal conflagration whose latest apostasy ‘Save the rest for the wicked’ will be released via Morning Star Heresy on February 25^th 2026. An ten track album drenched in energy, misery & a throatful of blast-beats. Save the rest for the wicked dives into multiple influences in and out of the extremities of black & death metal, whilst blending the core of Tanin'iver's unique sound. This chapter of the band is to be taken without expectations.

Coming forth from the fractures beneath creation, where the first lie was carved into flesh and worship was forced upon the weak. Remembrance is the tearing-open of that wound, a letter of betrayal, devotion twisted into obedience, and the chains forged by those who claim dominion over the spirit.

Born from grief, sharpened by fury, and refined through relentless perseverance, Tanin’iver stands as one of Australia’s most uncompromising voices in modern extreme metal. Emerging from Adelaide’s unforgiving underground, the project began as a private exorcism of trauma, a way to process loss, anguish and spiralling personal struggle. What followed was the creation of a sound that refuses to soften its edges or dilute its intent. The music of Tanin’iver is not entertainment. It is confrontation. It is catharsis. It is truth delivered with the force of a hammer.

At its core is Skorpa (Steve Lillywhite), the architect and founder whose vision anchors the project. Tanin’iver’s earliest foundations were laid in isolation, during a period marked by sickness, emotional devastation and ruptured stability. Rather than succumb, Skorpa channeled every wound into creation. The result was a sonic identity that fused black metal’s icy atmosphere with the crushing weight of death metal, a hybrid both personal and punishing.

Lineup: From 2025 onward, Tanin'iver has a new lineup to take the stage.

Skorpa - Vocals Kruzivant- Rhythm guitar

Vermin - Lead guitar

Vesper - Bass

The Early Years: Pyrrhic (2020)

The first full-length release, Pyrrhic, arrived in 2020 as a raw outpouring of fury and exhaustion. Recorded in solitude, it stripped away pretense and left only the core - anguish, rage and survival instinct. The album introduced the world to a sound marked by serrated riffs, cavernous vocals and emotional vulnerability rarely expressed with such violence. It was the first glimpse of the storm to come.

Growth and Precision: The Lucifer Effect (2021)

With 2021’s The Lucifer Effect, Tanin’iver expanded its sonic palette. The rawness of the debut remained, but structure and ambition took center stage. The album displayed a leap in songwriting maturity: orchestrated chaos layered with melody, tighter pacing and a sharpened edge. The themes grew bolder as well - challenging dogma, dissecting moral hypocrisy and turning the blade outward as much as inward. For many, this album marked Tanin’iver’s arrival as a distinct voice within the Australian extreme metal landscape.

Ascension Through Fire: Dark Evils Desecrate (2024)

In 2024, Tanin’iver unleashed Dark Evils Desecrate, an album praised for its intensity, scope and refined brutality. No longer focused solely on personal torment or spiritual decay, this record broadened its gaze to humanity at large. War, intolerance, societal collapse, the distortions of digital culture - nothing was spared. The album’s sound mirrored this shift with explosive drumming, towering riffs and vocals that sounded torn from the depths of a collapsing world.

The release demonstrated an uncompromising evolution. Tanin’iver had grown from an outlet of survival into a proclamation of artistic purpose. It became not just a project, but an entity, a force.

A New Invocation: Save the Rest for the Wicked (2026)

Now, with Save the Rest for the Wicked, Tanin’iver enters its most commanding era yet. The album serves as a culmination of everything that came before it: the raw emotional scars of Pyrrhic, the sharpened composition of The Lucifer Effect, and the sweeping ferocity of Dark Evils Desecrate. Yet this new chapter reaches further.

Where previous releases wrestled with the horrors of existence, Save the Rest for the Wicked asserts control over them. It is not an album created in the aftermath of destruction, it is one created in its mastery. The music cuts with confidence. The themes speak with authority. The tone is that of an artist who has walked through fire and returned not only unbroken but transformed.

The title itself is a declaration. It demands recognition of the wickedness ingrained in humanity, and reserves its final judgment for those who perpetuate it. The album is not merely an observation. It is an indictment. For fans of Belphegor, Svart Crown & Mayehm