We’re proud to announce that German/Italian cave-dwelling sepulchral blackened death-doom primitives Nekus (formed by current and past members of Putridarium, Into Coffin, Hadit, Omnivore, and Bestial Warfare, among others) are about to emerge with their hideous debut 2LP "Sepulchral Divination", over fifty minutes of aphotic, downtuned subsonic horror emanating from the wretched bowels of the abyss.
Comparable in sheer ugliness and inhumanity to other slowed down sepulchral death and doom metal abominations like Grave Upheaval, Moss, Anatomia, and Encoffination, Nekus are conjurors of a lightless subterranean realm somewhere between the pits of hell and the center of the earth where existence may assume horrific forms at the edge of reason and where life as we know it is impossible. Indeed this monstrous, fifty-plus minute crawling nightmare of horrid, telluric mummified death doom is not something of the plane of being or of surface-dwelling, air-breathing and light-needing existence. Rather, a decomposing, lightless, sinkhole of putrefied sonic emanations opening an abyss unto the dimensions below the earth's crust, where eons of putrefaction, fossilization, gravitational crush depth and infernal magmatic upheaval perpetually beholds the inaccessible omnipotence of death and inexorably calls all surface life to it.
To coincide with the album’s announcement the track “Katabasis” has been revealed by No Clean Singing, with the metal blog stating that the band’s music sounds “horrifying and hopeless, supernatural and suffocating“ - you can checkout the feature and track HERE.
Nekus started in Marburg, Germany around 2018, emerging with a sepulchral and decaying bottom-caving sound blending black and death metal with crippling, slow-moving and insanely downtuned doom with a huge and crushing low end, reminiscent of bands like Moss, Grave Upheaval and Encoffination. The band’s horrific, rumbling and mummified sound first arose on the “Death Nova upon the Barren Harvest” debut EP issued in 2020 on all formats by Blood Harvest Records, and was soon followed by the “Malevolence Evocations” split CD with Impure Declaration, released the same year by Old Temple.
Indeed, Nekus’ bottom-heavy sepulchral sound not only is reminiscent in its mood and atmosphere to a trip deep into an aphotic and subterranean realm devoid of all light, but it is actually intentionally crafted so, and the band’s lyrics and concept also follow this theme of a harrowing trip deep below the earth’s crust where existence assumes horrific forms within caverns, crevices and magmatic chambers that constitute a mysterious antihuman realm away from any knowledge of mankind, and which over the centuries has established a consolidated narrative on the superstition of where “hell” actually resides: down below, in the caverns and abysses below the surface which inexorably call all life to it.
"Sepulchral Divination" is slated for an April 7 2023 release via Sentient Ruin on silkscreened 2LP, CD, MD and digital versions worldwide and all formats are now pre-orderable via all our channels.