Cult of Fire is a Prague-based black metal band founded in 2010 by guitarist Vladimír Pavelka (Infernal Vlad) and drummer Tom Coroner. Their music draws on Hindu and Buddhist tantrism - Vedic ritual, the goddess Kali, and the Aghori tradition - giving their sound a ceremonial weight rare in the genre. The 2013 album मृत्यु का तापसी अनुध्यान (Ascetic Meditations of Death) broke them into the international underground, and their fifth full-length The One, Who Is Made of Smoke (2025) is dedicated to the goddess Dhumavati.
Cult of Fire released their fifth studio album The One, Who Is Made of Smoke on March 26, 2025 via Beyond Eyes Production.
The band toured Poland in March 2025 under the 'Mantras for Peaceful Death over Europe' banner, playing Poznań, Gdańsk, and later Kraków.
Cult of Fire performed at Walpurgisnacht V in Berlin on May 1, 2026, and subsequently toured Latin America including São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Bogotá, Medellín, and multiple Mexican cities.
Cult of Fire performed at the sold-out Dark Easter Metal Meeting in Munich in April 2024.
A 10th anniversary vinyl reissue of the EP Čtvrtá Symfonie Ohně was announced in April 2024, available in four limited editions including a wooden box set.
