THE DEVIL'S TRADE // NINCS SZENNYEZETLEN SZÉP - FAWN T-SHIRT

THE DEVIL'S TRADE // NINCS SZENNYEZETLEN SZÉP - FAWN T-SHIRT

RELEASE DATE: 7th of November, 2025

Dávid Makó began The Devil’s Trade in 2014. His early solo work, often performed with only an acoustic guitar or banjo, quickly garnered attention for its emotional depth and stark beauty. Drawing on Appalachian folk, dark Americana, and Hungarian folk traditions, Makó’s music has been praised for its haunting vocals, minimalist arrangements, and profound emotional honesty. Recently, and especially in this new release, elements of post-metal and doom have taken Makó’s sound into new, exciting territory, whilst retaining his unique intimacy.

Nincs Szennyezetlen Szép, translated as “There is no uncontaminated beauty”, is a record forged in grief and unflinching confession. Fans of The Devil’s Trade will immediately recognize Makó’s signature elements: the deep, rugged baritone, the uncanny ability to transmit raw emotion, and melodies drenched in melancholia. With his fifth studio album, however, Makó reclaims the heaviness of his early years, pushing his sound into new, atmospheric territory.

“Nincs Szennyezetlen Szép is much darker and heavier and more complex than anything I have done.” — Makó

Working within a larger, more dynamic canvas, Makó’s confessional power is met with metal-wrought anguish, reborn as an intimate, haunting journey toward authenticity. Nincs Szennyezetlen Szép is an elegy to his late mother. “Between the death of my mother and the birth of my son we only had two weeks,” explains Makó — and this complexity of emotion is felt in every beat and breath of the album. Survival, suffering, isolation, the endless human turmoil that hangs over our shared and personal grief: all this is expressed defiantly, through a voice that is devastatingly vulnerable and resilient.

“My music is a pure and uncalculated reflection of my progression as a musician and always a gut reaction to what is happening in and around me.” — Makó

Against this atmospheric spine, Makó has woven percussive muscle and electric weight, in which archaic drums feature prominently as a driving emotional force. The result is a soundscape of swinging moods: eruptions of doom, passages of plaintive lament — the volatility of grief itself, captured.

While The Devil’s Trade remains a deeply personal, largely self-driven project, Nincs Szennyezetlen Szép also reflects the input of key collaborators:

“Just like with [previous album] ‘Vidékek vannak idebenn’, my old friend Gáspár Binder helped me write and record the drums and I wrote and played everything else. Szabolcs Szűcs, our local legend, engineered the album and my best friend Márton Szabó helped us as a producer — or, as I love to say, our ‘musical conscience’. This time I dared to ask another friend of mine, Nikita Kamprad (Der Weg Einer Freiheit), to be the mastering engineer, and I’m so grateful that he said yes.” — Makó

Nincs Szennyezetlen Szép is not an easy listen — nor was it meant to be. It is a sincerely painful document of mourning and the myriad emotions that grip us, from bitter rage to catatonic sadness. It is a testament to the resilience found in surviving and continuing through it all, a reminder that “There is no uncontaminated beauty.” — Makó

TRACKLIST:

Side A
1. The Sleep That Dragged You Away
2. Weltschmerz
3. All This Sadness
4. All This Sadness Will Be Gone
5. Your Pieces Scattered
6. Nincs Szennyezettlen Szép
7. Idegen Minden