Sentient Ruin rejoins Venezuelan unholy black/death metal cult CTHONICA, to one again bring to the masses the duo’s abhorrent spell into complete aural perversion and disarray. This time the South American sonic plague re-emerges from the sepulchers and sewers of Caracas with a new chapter in their abominable saga of repulsive and sepulchral ritualistic raw black/death metal via the release of a brand new three-track sophomore MLP, officially released on March 5 2021 on limited edition 12” vinyl format, and on cassette format by Caligari Records.
The album has been unveiled progressively in the last month, first by Antichrist Magazine with an exclusive song stream of second track “The Bonds of Infernal Abhorrence“ (check out the feature HERE), and finally by CVLT Nation who in unveiling exclusively the full MLP stated that “the touches of droning noise and of dark ritual ambient that punctuates the release just add an extra layer and dimension to the utter horror this band has envisioned.“ - you can check out the feature HERE.
Hideous beyond comprehension and utterly horrific, "The Lesser Incantations of Chthonic Lore" was conceived as some kind of perverse telepathic link to the underworld and it reconfirms the Venezuelan necromancers as an absolute horror of creation. Across its three mammoth spells of slithering cacophony and ritualized horrors, on the horrific new MLP Cthonica regurgitate another stomach-churning thirty-minute subterranean emanation of death ridden incantations and complete aural deformities, rummaging the depths of total perversion and abandon to unearth one of the most nauseating, primitive, and hallucinatory rituals of aural blasphemies to have been vomited out of South America in recent years. The monstrous twelve-minute closing track features lead guest vocals from US black doom band Abstracter’s vocalist MA.
The three-track MLP was released on March 5 2021 on limited edition 12” vinyl format and digitally via Sentient Ruin, and on cassette format by Caligari Records and can now be obtained and streamed in full via all of both labels’ channels.
Raw blackened death metal plague Cthonica began in Caracas, Venezuela, back in 2016 (formed by D.V. on Guitars, Bass, and Drums, and H.K. handling Vocals, noise and electronics, lyrics and concepts), rising from the ashes of a previous incarnation of the project called Okkvlt. Cthonica is, and likely always will be, a proudly home-recorded project. Both for necessity due to the precarious access to resources in the tumultuous Venezuelan society and general lack of most things out there, and for the complete refusal by the core duo behind the project to compromise or embrace standardized and commonly acceptable creation processes. As such Cthonica's existence will likely always be one of near complete lack and isolation, a state and condition which has perhaps made certain aspects of their art even more violent, defiant, and abominable. That of Chtonica appears to be an existence of evolved regression, where a state of isolation, lack, and primitivism has evolved aberrantly, and created fertile conditions for the development of deviant and feral art forms. Regarding this aspect of their creation process the band has stated that “we are a home-made recording project because we are oblivious to so-called professional hi-fi techniques and firmly believe that the approach of basic and primitive resources keeps us on the line of what we want“. Lyrically, musically, and conceptually Cthonica are focused on expressing the abyss within every human life, not (only) through the classic but overused Nietzschean cliché, but also and mostly as a Tehomic-Typhonian metamorphosis of every man's reason through what they call, "spiritual putrefaction”, or the progressive human corruption through the guidelines of opprobrious disciplines and their teachings, a concept which has shaped and defined the band’s abhorrent 2018 debut 2XLP Typhomanteia: Sacred Triarchy of Spiritual Putrefaction.
