We’re proud and honored to announce the first ever - and much needed - vinyl version of one of 2022’s most accomplished and visionary underground death metal works, Pestilength’s massive sophomore full-length album “Basom Gryphos“, thirty six minutes of mutant death metal armageddon to disintegrate the fabric of reality, released in collaboration with Nuclear Winter Records for Europe.
Across it's synapse-obliterating eight songs "Basom gryphos" unfolds an infernal fractal of muted death metal forged from the same aberrant antimatter that birthed defining works by Morbid Angel (early Tucker-era particularly) and Immolation, revealing a shapeshifting, suffocating sonic hallucination conceived at the outer limits of death metal as we know it. The disfiguring dissonant black metal touches and disorienting atmospheres transposed from the band's origins persist in their framework, further exalting the band's deliriant penchant for total extreme metal surrealism, while the cryptic allomorphic symbolism and inverted anti-language that permeates the lyrics and song titles complete an alien extreme metal crucible of truly mind-altering enormity.
"Basom gryphos" was originally released in spring 2022 (on CD by Nuclear Winter Records and on cassette tape format by Nuclear Winter and Goat Throne Records), to critical acclaim, and the vinyl version is now available in the Americas from Sentient Ruin and in Europe via Nuclear Winter.
Cryptic black/death metal enigma Pestilength emerged in the Bilbao area of Spain’s Basque Region around 2019 by the will of mysterious drummer N, and of local and equally enigmatic guitarist/vocalist and abstract visual artist M.. The band initially self-released a string of raw, chaotic demos and singles of lo-fi inscrutable and demented domed black-death metal throughout 2019 and 200, generating considerable interest in the Spanish underground with their nebulous and murky sound churning with hallucinations ubound and reminescent of bands like Portal, Antediluvian or Impetuous Ritual. But the peculiar trait which instantly set Pestilgenth aside from its peers was the use of a mysterious and unseen form of presumably invented pseudolanguage the band used for their undecipherable lyrics and song titles. An aberrant and rarely before seen experiment in self-conceptualization blending deviant linguistics and abstract extreme metal, where the ritualistic deciphering of old English in unorthodox ways to create new allomorphs and lexical absurdities had become custom for the band to use as their own symbolism and iconography.
Meanwhile, through a refinement in production, the music was catching up to the outlandish and elaborate uniqueness of the band’s concept, brining a sharpening of the band’s sound which in turn brought forth a more intense and intricate approach to songwriting. The hazy dissonant murk from their beginnings was shed in favor of a more muscular and twisted form of dark mutant death metal which came to light with their 2020 debut album “Eilatik”, and furthermore sublimated and ascended to imposing heights on their masterful 2022 sophomore full-length album “Basom Gryphos”, a release which by now was placing Pestilgenth on the same reality-bending stylistic violence and hallucinatory intensity of bands like Immolation and Morbid Angel.