We’re proud to announce the looming release of “Trisect Joys of Pierced Hearts”, the death-scarred full-length album from emerging US black metal horde Lucifixion, to be released June 30 2023 on LP, MC and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin.
The pestilent release has been teased by CVLT Nation via an exclusive advance stream of the track “Howl, Thy Desolate Sound”, with the notorious underground music blog stating that “if you like arcane, filth-riddled shit like Craft, Katharsis, Cult Des Ghoules, Negative Plane and Ildjarn then look no further, the feral and blown-out realm of voluntarily disfigured black metal ugliness is here to perpetrate its violent reign!” - you can check out the feature and track HERE.
Indeed, the chaos-torn debut album from US black metal disembodiment Lucifixion is a venom-drenched swarm of daggers aimed straight at the eyes of sanity. A blown out, pestilent disfiguration of all of black metal’s most deranged, primeval and infamous traits, specifically those belonging to 90’s Scandinavian black metal (Ildjarn, Darkthrone, Armagedda, Craft), as well 00’s French and German black metal (Katharsis, Vlad Tepes), and to the elite of US black metal and vanguards like Leviathan, Judas Iscariot, and Negative Plane, where a refusal of modern production values and an adherence to strict and cryptic depersonalization and dehumanization of the music has yielded some of the most infamous and cacophonous works the genre has ever seen.
Through this similar “less is more” approach Lucifixion have crafted an ambivalent work shrouded in gangrened rawness and compositional grandeur, where seven long, unpredictable and shapeshifting tracks forming a near-fifty minute behemoth, are beautifully counterbalanced and disfigured by an immanent and inescapable sense of filth, primitivism and of perpetual decay.
Lucifixion were formed by unnamed USBMs scene veterans around 2020 and crafted the “Feral Mass” demo, a single-song offering over ten minutes long which immediately revealed the band’s ambivalent, dualistic nature of being an entity crafting majestic yet sonically involved manifestations of contorted and feral primitive black metal. The “Feral Mass” demo tape was issued by Sentient Ruin in limited numbers in 2021 and quickly sold out as the band had already put the final touches to its towering debut offering, the lawless and wretched fifty-minute behemoth full length album “Trisect Joy of Pierced Hearts”, to be issued again by Sentient Ruin on LP, MC and digital formats worldwide on June 30 2023.