Sentient Ruin is proud to announce its partnership with Brazilian experimental death metal cult Antimonument, as we ready an enhanced and reworked reissue of their fascinating 2021 debut offering, “Concealment”, seeing the light on cassette tape and digitally as well as for the first time ever on vinyl format. All formats are slated for a December 2 2022 worldwide release via Sentient Ruin.
CVLT Nation has introduced the reissue via an exclusive premiere of the band’s new music video for the song “Entranced in Ruin”, one of the two brand new and previously unreleased tracks which enhance this reissue - you can checkout the feature and video HERE.
Death metal meets its future self. When almost everything has been said and done, contamination becomes the only escape, as new ways to interpret and reinvent the wheel must be found to keep setting the mind free and the genre moving forward, including creating clever and transformative crossover syncretisms with other styles and genres than can open the eye of terror along with new gateways to a higher dimension of chaos. And this is how Brazil's mysterious experimental death metal deconstructors Antimonument have approached their cryptic and bludgeoning craft: infusing it with all kinds of foreign (but adjacent) audial excoriations, including industrial noise, hardcore punk, cryptic no-wave and scathing power electronics, to render their experimental dark extreme metal a futuristic and multidimensional sonic warhead. Imagine a mix of Blasphemy, Carcass, Incantation, Khanate, Swans, Crucifix, Void, Godflesh and Controlled Bleeding, and you will be closer, yet still not completely within, the mutated experimental realm of devastation conceived by the Brazilian cult. And it doesn't end there. As an art studio/collective creating audio-visual experiences encompassing sound, visuals and video, Antimonument is more than just as a band, rather an explorative sensorial weapon of self determination. In this sense the Brazilian collective can be seen as an extreme metal counter-shade to the flourishing Brazilian experimental underground vanguard that in recent years has nurtured defiant bands like Test, Papangu, Deaf Kids etc. who've turned grindcore and hardcore inside out. It was only a matter of time before grim and abysmal black/death metal would receive the same treatment and be syphoned through one of the most exciting and fearless experimental micro-scenes that exists today, and Antimonument are the vessel which got us there.
Anitmonument's crushing debut album "Concealment" was first released in 2021 on CD in Brazil by Cianeto Discos and later the same year on cassette tape in the USA by Red Door Records. Shortly after Antimonument and Sentient Ruin began working on an enhanced reissue featuring brand new artwork, two brand new tracks, and an entirely new master by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios to serve as the release's first ever vinyl edition along with brand new digital/streaming and cassette tape versions to accompany it.
Antimonument are an anonymous/depersonalized convergent multidisciplinary art/music collective hailing from Brazil, first emerging in 2021 with their cryptic debut album "Concealment". Their music is a degenerative deconstruction and recombination of styles aimed at fusing certain currents of extreme music, counterbalanced by thought provoking visuals, to a create a singular new stream of consciousness and redesign a new sensorial map to mankind’s destructive nature, underlining the horrors of reality that dwell in the psyche and within the plain of human nature. Black and death metal, grindcore, hardcore punk, industrial noise, power electronics and no-wave/post punk are thus amalgamated in a consciousness expanding audio-visual ritual aimed at establishing a new symbolism to the negativity that permeates the world and to facing the listener with its own emptiness and nothingness within the void of their surroundings. Antimonument's debut album “Concealment" features complementary artwork by Brazilian artist Rudimentary Light, and was first revealed in the Brazilian underground via local dealers Cianeto Records as a limited edition CD-R. The album instantly gained attention abroad and was soon picked up for a tape release by Red Door Records in the US. This is when Sentient Ruin also noticed the unique juxtaposition of transformative visuals and daring experimental black/death metal proposed by the band, and offered Antimonument a worldwide first ever vinyl edition of the album along with a cassette reissue, both with revisited/expanded artwork, two bonus tracks, and brand new mastering by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios.