We’re thrilled to announce our new partnership with elusive German black/death metal cult Maurda, as we prepare a remastered reissue of their 2022 tenebrous and annihilating sophomore MLP release "Cultus Brachypter", to be reissued digitally and for the first time ever on vinyl format February 23 2024. "Cultus Brachypter" full stream as well as digital and vinyl product preorders are now available via all our channels.
Brachyptery, the condition in insects of having vestigial wings and having lost the capacity of flight. This is the cult of the dewinged, of the downcast and of the condemned. Now remastered (courtesy of Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios) and consecrated through its first ever vinyl edition and a graphic facelift, Maurda's catastrophic second short player "Cultus Brachypter" went largely ignored upon its original 2022 self-release, but its obscurity can be solely attributed to the hermetic extremism that defines it. In reality, a world is contained within these sixteen minutes and six movements of absolute eschaton. A world so impenetrable it takes complete sacrifice to enter it. With its ruinous sensorial assault, "Cultus Brachypter" initially evokes the war-torn bestial insanity of bands like Pseudogod or Teitanblood, but as the onslaught progresses the listener soon realizes they are being drawn into a desolate, void-like inner world of dehumanized alienation. The grim specter of DSBM rears its head as the minutes pass and the sense of misery and isolation becomes suffocating and reaches its inevitable consequences and conclusions. This form of enigmatic, inward-vanquishing extreme metal appears inscrutable in its uncommunicative isolationism, and can be solely superficially interpreted as an unprecedented fusion of war metal and depressive black metal in which feelings of dread, melancholy and self-loathing are taken to their extremes and weaponized into an abstract white-wall representation of absolute nihilism and self-destruction that ultimately evokes the grim soul-tearing lineaments of pure noise.
Formed by reclusive members Atypus and KHL, Maurda first emerged around 2019 with a self-released debut demo tape titled “Errega”, a raw and emaciated document of inscrutable DSBM-infused primitive war metal that hinted at potentially catastrophic developments to follow. The band’s original and cryptic formula was indeed developed further with the 2022 followup MLP "Cultus Brachypter", a noise-devoured extreme metal abstraction shrouded in cryptic onomatopoeic and metaphorical semantics about self-induced winglessness and losing one’s ability to fly, or in other words, to thrive and succeed. This release possibly showed the full realization of the band’s soul-tearing formula: a metastatic abstraction of bludgeoning war metal eroded away and consumed by the despair and dehumanizing alienation of DSBM acts like Pa Vesh En. A form of aural chaos consumed by misery and degenerated into a claustrophobic inner plight devoid of reference points and blurred into the isolationist grimness and hopelessness of pure noise.