The concept

The concept album Czarty Polskie (Polish Devils) is rooted in medieval Polish demonology. It explores horror as a holistic phenomenon — unfolding in both music and imagery. The narrative is based on ancient beliefs that attributed guilt and misfortune not to humans but to demonic forces — in an attempt to explain human evil.

The album’s lyrics use original excerpts from Julian Tuwim’s Czary i czarty polskie i Wypisy czarnoksięskie (1924). In the book, the author described how devils — though shapeless — could create bodies from air and earthly vapours and speak an ‘artificial language.’ That vision inspired the use of modern AI tools in both the music and the imagery. Artificial intelligence — much like electricity in past centuries — arouses both fascination and controversy, and its ‘unnatural’ nature harmonizes with the symbolic image of the Devil, a being that exists outside the natural world.

Musically, Czarty Polskie draws on death metal, sludge metal, and psychedelic rock of the 1970s, creating an intense, emotional journey through sound and visual landscapes that don’t exist in reality but resonate deeply in the symbolic and intuitive realms. The Polish language of the lyrics enhances the mystical atmosphere, embedding the album in the context of regional folklore and culture. Across sixteen tracks, the band gives those devils a voice — not a human one, but ‘mowa artyficjalna’, an artificial tongue. A czart should not sound like us. So CZART let a machine speak for itself. The album was made from our own recordings with the use of AI tools.