We’re proud to announce a triumphant vinyl compilation of total sonic savagery from New Jersey’s bestial death metal cult Altar of Gore.
As the title unmistakably hints at, "Infinite Visions of Violence & 2018 Demo" unites Altar of Gore's skull-crushing 2018 debut demo and the equally putrescent 2022 follow up "Infinite Visions of Violence" demo into a single vinyl release remastered for the purpose by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios. With this release these animalistic tracks find their first ever presentation on the wax format and sublimate into their final form to testify the gruesome majesty and horrific violence of one of America's most barbaric underground death metal acts. Conceived and executed entirely by Acolyte of the Foul Ones, Altar of Gore is the latest weapon of death metal carnage to have emerged from the festering and sprawling New Jersey extreme metal underground along with bands like Blasphematory, Death Fortress, Siege Column and Massive Retaliation, among others, all of which have also seen Acolyte serve in their ranks in one form or another at some point.
Upon issuing the original demo tape back in 2018, Nihil Verum Nisi Mors stated that Altar of Gore "has tapped deep into the dark recesses of low bass frequency to create a schematic for dismantling a human body in the most brutal and least efficient way possible". Those words not only are truest and resonate with utmost realism almost five years later, but a full twenty minutes more of the same bestial annihilation is added to the platter with the addition of the second demo completing side A.
What faces the listener is a forty-plus minute terrorscape of unrelenting gore-drenched sepulchral death metal insanity. A trance-inducing ritual into the outermost realms of perversion where influences coming from bands like Beherit, Von and Demoncy create a repetitive and hypnotic canvas to which other influences coming namely from bands like Blasphemy, Bestial Warlust, Impetigo, Carcass and Archgoat anchor themselves delivering and inescapable and horrendous payload of violence and death. It is precisely this mix of dense, diseased and mesmeric atmospheres and the underlying cannibalistic savagery with which the music is delivered which makes Altar of Gore such a unique and contemplative band to behold in the realms of the most violent American death metal cults.
A solo endeavor of Acolyte, Altar of Gore initiated in 2017 and since then has been belting out some of the most gruesome and savage death metal carnage conceived by the American extreme metal underground in the latter half of the last decade. The band creates a unique and hypnotic form of murky and bass heavy blackened death metal with dense and perverse atmospheres and a heavy emphasis on primitivism and filth. The band's debut demo saw the light in 2018 and has been one of the most unique and underrated East Coast obscure death metal artifacts ever since. The debut LP "Obscure & Obscene Gods" saw the light on Nameless Grave Records in 2020 further establishing Altar of Gore's reputation and cult-like status as beacon of total primitive death metal barbarity, and the feat was repeated again with utmost mastery with the "Infinite Visions of Violence" demo in 2022, a third chapter which saw a predictable zero-point in any musical "progress" of sorts, if not an even more perverse and morbid drift at the opposite end toward perpetrated animalistic primitivism and acephalic musical perversion. The two demos were eventually repackaged as a CD compilation by Nameless Grave Records in 2022, and as a remastered vinyl version with an alterante title and artwork by Sentient Ruin in 2023.