We are proud to welcome into our family Argentinian one-man raw dark hardcore punk entity Prousted, whose obliterating debut Demo will be released via Sentient Ruin on limited edition vinyl 7” and on digital/streaming platforms on April 1 2022. The release is pre-orderable now via all our channels and has been introduced by the always attentive hardcore/punk/metal blog No Echo, who’ve premiered the opening track from the work remaking how this debut offering is “a blown-out, nightmarish affair“ and that the band should appeal to “fans of Gehenna, Blasphemy, and Integrity”. You can read their feature and check out the track HERE.
The light-draining debut release brings us three tracks of blistering and misery-infused sonic darkness and negativity. With its raw, disintegrating sound, this catastrophic debut demo fuses the bitterness of dark hardcore punk bands like Dropdead and Siege with the grimness and destruction of war-torn black metal bands like Revenge and Blasphemy to cast the genre down into a dark abyss of total suffering and terror."
Prousted have risen from the distant yet flourishing punk scene in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with a sound of puzzling dread and of rife negativity. The band derives its enigmatic namesake from the later life period of French writer Marcel Proust, who, in his final years, became increasingly recluse and self-isolated from the world, allegedly going so far as to lining the bedroom which he never left with cork in an effort to achieve a condition of complete sensorial isolation from the outside world. This is the state which the band attempts to convey with its music, discharging a blistering, cold, and alienating sensorial assault that devours all light from the listeners surroundings and obliterates their senses to reduce them to a state of terrified, detached and traumatized isolation. To achieve this grim design Prousted have opted for a destroyed and shattered production quality and enacted an experimental fusion of styles which brings together the anger and bitterness of dark and violent hardcore punk, with the chaos and negativity of black/war metal bands like Revenge or Blasphemy. This unison of rabid and sickening rawness juxtaposed to the band’s unique and sophisticated fusion of genres has materialized an alienating and caustic collision of sounds designed to face the listener with the most crippled and overwhelming states of terror.
GOLGOTHAN REMAINS: Australian Dark Death Metal Cult To Release Immense Sophomore LP "Adorned In Ruin" - Track Premiered at Toilet Ov Hell.
We’re extremely excited to renew our collaboration with Australian dark death metal cult Golgothan Remains, with whom we’ve set an April 1 2022 release date for their absolutely immense new album “Adorned in Ruin”, to see the light on LP, CD, MC, and digital/streaming formats in collaboration with Brilliant Emperor Records (handling the release for Australia).
The release has been anticipated by iconic extreme metal blog Toilet ov Hell who’ve provided a glimpse into the album via en exclusive stream of the album’s opening track “Adoration of Carnal Blaphemy”, stating that the track is a “4 minute sprint through hell, with a main riff that calls to mind the bludgeoning sacrilege of Immolation and Incantation as much as the uncanny howls and ebbs of Suffering Hour and Ulcerate.“
The Australian dark death metal horde return with their cataclysmic sophomore LP, a thirty-minute weapon of absolute oblivion forged by the force of pure darkness and chaos. This new full length offering sees the Sydney extreme metal cult heighten and elevate their own vision of a dark future-shaping death metal to its most devastating form yet, pushing the genre beyond a state of weaponized majesty and assembling an imposing and magnificent sonic beast shrouded in destruction and otherworldly atmospheres. The band's staple onslaught of enveloping dissonance and unyielding intensity indeed reaches the pinnacle of its expression on "Adorned in Ruin", as various currents of black and death metal, old and new, are brought together by the band to create a transformative hellscape where futuristic and visionary atmospherics, sprawling songwriting and primeval violence are masterfully interwoven into omnipotent bedlam. Animating the imploding intensity and cascading chaos harbored at the heart of the album, one can easily parse the mind-bending guitar abstractions reminiscent of modern masters like Ulcerate, Abyssal or Phobocosm, yet the work resonates vigorously with the wrath and feral abandon that made Immolation's or Deicide's early dark death metal such a bastion of chaos and darkness decades ago. It is this encompassing yet future-reaching and visionary approach to the death metal craft, leveraging various of its eras, which has yielded such a majestic and imposing beast of an album. An intimidating dark death metal behemoth that emanates with an aura of apocalyptic immensity as it churns with the violence of godly destruction and feeds from the very depths of oblivion, casting monstrous shadows across a scorched wasteland and evoking visions of grandiose future wars and endless ruin devouring the earth.
Golgothan Remains have been darkening the world with their own strain of shadow-fueled aural mayhem since at least 2016, when their self-tiled debut demo appeared in the Australian underground establishing them as masterminds of a previously unseen new lineage of dark death metal annihilation entirely their own. Spewn from a place of utter chaos and lightnesses, on their inaugural offering Golgothan Remains' wretched craft instantly revealed itself in all its apocalyptic enormity, shrouded in a monstrous aura, and unfolding massive black wings like a beast spawned from another dimension. Upon unleashing the obliterating demo the band spent the next year crafting what would become their debut LP - Perverse Offerings to the Void, recorded at Adversary Studios in Sydney in early 2017 and mastered in 2018 at Audiosiege by Brad Boatright (Altarage, Vastum). Perverse Offerings to the Void was self-released in Australia on CD and tape by the band before being picked up for a local vinyl release by Australian label Impure Sounds (on 100 units only becoming and instant collector's item) and eventually ending up being hailed as one of 2018’s best Australian metal albums and one of the crowning achievements in death metal over all for that year worldwide. With a sound both modern and timeless, on Perverse Offerings to the Void Golgothan Remains have stitched together the ageless brutality of bands like Incantation, Immolation, Necrovore, and Morbid Angel on one side, and the transformative sonic bedlam of visionary bands like Ulcerate, Dead Congregation, and Adversarial on the other, to create a majestic extreme metal colossus of unseen magnitude, completely unrestrained in its famished quest for complete ruin, and magnificent in its imposing display of pure darkness.
BLACK FUCKING CANCER: Abhorrent Californian Black Metal Legion Reveal Long Awaited Sophomore Full-Length Album "Procreate Inverse" - Track Premiered at The Call of Night.
We’re proud to renew our allegiance with abhorrent Californian black metal legion Black Fucking Cancer as we ready the release of their plague-wielding brand new album "Procreate Inverse", to be released March 18 2022 on 2LP, CD, MC and digital/streaming formats along with an exclusive limited edition first ever BFC long sleeve shirt.
As a prelude to the pestilent release, the track “Serpentous Flames” has been unveiled by the No Gleaming Light YouTube channel along with underground black metal blog The Call of Night, who remarked how on this new opus “Black Fucking Cancer raze the earth around them with their high-grade, pure black metal aural hell” - you can check out the full feature HERE.
"Procreate Inverse" is towering and long awaited brand new 2LP full-length offering of cataclysmic and imperial black metal domination. What has always set Black Fucking Cancer aside in the USBM scene is their strict yet transformative adherence to the tradition of black metal across all its eras, an approach which has aligned them far more to the Scandinavian/French school and led the Californian horde to evolve the style's most recognizable and iconic traits beyond a state of weaponized terror, glorifying its most vile dogmas and instigating its most antihuman instincts. The sum of all of black metal's most degenerate and nihilistic traits thus live within "Procreate Inverse" like the gospel of endless and perpetrated violence, nihilism and negativity which the genre harbors at its purest essence, and introduces a work which is by all definitions and standards nothing less than authentic black metal war, waged with punitive hatred and spiteful violence against humanity and anyone who dares to question the reign and tyranny of pure evil. Aside from the exceptionally executed and represented array of influences coming from bands like Funeral Mist, Aosoth, Antaeus, Katharsis, Gorgoroth and Marduk, within the apocalyptic design of this alienating slab of pure black metal warfare the listener is instantly faced with what is the key element to all its triumphs: the awe-inducing virtuosic majesty and executional dominance that have always distinguished this elusive American black metal act. It is this aspect which drives "Procreate Inverse"'s destructive yield into otherworldly realms, with its annihilating and winding guitar assaults that seemingly find no exhaustion nor respite, riding the inhuman backbone of a pulverizing and surgical rhythm section headed straight for the abyss. An all encompassing sonic devourment emerges from this unyielding and inexhaustible convergence of technical brilliance and compositional ferocity, leading "Procreate Inverse" to seem almost multi-dimensional throughout its lengthily and monstrous constructs and its fifty-plus minute blinding onslaught distilled from pure hatred and chaos.
In the band’s own words, “Black Fucking Cancer's sole purpose is to manifest uncompromising, disease ridden, unforgiving aural hell. To relentlessly shove everyone's face into their own shit.” As their name aptly suggests San Jose CA’s Black Fucking Cancer are plague adorators whose wretched aural craft is conceived solely as a vessel for defilement, insult, and ridicule of the human race, particularly of that segment of humanity who follow morality and are cowardly enough to chose to believe the lies of organized religion. A long running and revered act in the Bay Area extreme meta underground, Black Fucking Cancer have always eschewed the trends of their times, and while during their beginnings everyone in their scene and epoch was busy delving into atmospheric and “cascadian” styles of meditative hybridized and frankly inoffensive forms of USBM, Black Fucking Cancer spat on all trends, raised their middle fingers high toward the sky and opted instead to wage a permanent aural war against all and worship directly at the wretched Norwegian altar where the pure and untouched flame of authentic nihilistic black metal burned with the vigor and intensity of a thousand plagues and pestilences. Influences as diverse as Emperor, Immortal, 1349, Gorgoroth, and Satyricon as well as Swedish nuances coming from maniacs like Craft, Dark Funeral, and Marduk can be clearly heard in their grandiose and maleficent aural framework, but one can not help but denote and gasp in awe at the band’s darkest and most malefic side - the side which more than any other one has defined them and made them such a force of pure concentrated darkness and destruction. It is here that the band’s primordial driving force is revealed, fueled by unholy and nefarious influences coming from french black metal abominations like, Aosoth, Antaeus, and S.V.E.S.T., as well as German anomalies like Katharsis, and certain dark and experimental USBM like Leviathan, Judas Iscariot and Weakling, all fused together and sublimating to horrifying heights of aural pandemonium. Black Fucking Cancer’s unholy existence has spawned two releases so far: the Summoning Aural Hell demo cassette tape which was released by revered underground American tape label Graceless Recordings (the same one to discover bands like Lycus, Pissgrave, Mortiferum, Chthe'ilist and more) and then self-released on CD by the band in limited copies, and their debut self-titled 2XLP released by legendary French extreme metal label Osmose Productions (Blasphemy, Revenge, Sadistik Execution, countless other legendary black metal bands from the 90s/00s) in collaboration again with Graceless Recordings. The monstrous 2XLP featured artwork by Italian oil painting visionary Paolo Girardi, a layout by Sutek Hexen’s Kevin Gan Yuen, and has since been hailed as an absolute cornerstone in West Coast USBM. In 2018 Black Fucking Cancer silently retreated back to their home studio to work on Boundless Arcane Invokations, their imposing 12” split with Santa Cruz CA black metal legion Gloam. On the visionary collaborative piece of American black metal set to be released on vinyl in the second half of 2019 by Sentient Ruin, the two bands envisioned the work as a single continuous and circular piece connected at both ends, with the same title for the album and for their two respective tracks as well, where the two bands trade places in taking the composition from start to finish and then dissolve the two ends as well, coercing their two creations into a cyclical and looped spell of vast, glorious, and unholy USBM pandemonium. Brand new 2022 full-length album "Procreate Inverse" is the band’s latest excursion into the most liminal outer realms of total aural annihilation.
HEXEREI: Finnish Raw Black Metal Cult Unleashes Masterful and Psychotic Debut Album "Ancient Evil Spirits" Via Sentient Ruin - Full Stream and Pre-orders Available.
We’re proud to welcome Finnish raw black metal cult Hexerei into our family as we ready the exclusive release on physical formats for the first time ever of their masterful and psychotic 2021 debut album "Ancient Evil Spirits", to be officially released on February 25 2022 on LP, CD, tape and digital/streaming formats, and now all pre-order able and streaming in full via all our channels. Limited edition t-shirt will also be made available.
Berserk Finnish raw black metal disease Hexerei bring us their venom-soaked debut full-length abomination "Ancient Evil Spirits", a deranged aural gateway to unseen depths of madness and total hell that will reshape the listener's idea of terror and toss them into the outermost circles of insanity. Comprising of four primordial stabs of blown out homicidal cacophony, "Ancient Evil Spirits" overboils from the witches cauldron like an acid-drenched conjuration, invoking ancient evil forces, uncontrolled hysteria, and malignant curses to torment the listener with merciless violence and abandon. Reminiscent in its malevolence and primeval cruelty to ancient black metal cults like Darkthrone, Mayhem, Cultes Des Ghoules, and Katharsis, Hexerei push the limits of pestilent black metal even further and redefine the very concept of total aural filth by working the formula into a wider and more derailing canvas, with lengthier compositions, an even more perverse emphasis on primitivism, and a more unpredictable and erratic songwriting that has unearthed truly unsettling and terrifying new manifestations of this ancient and wicked aural craft.
Hexerei was formed in the deranged rural areas of nightside Finland in 2017 by three unnamed and deranged maniacs who set out to create ancient aural gateways to depths of madness and Hell. After two demonstrational self-released stabs of live captured black metal sorcery (the “Aural Abyss” 2018 demo and the ”Oath” demo from 2019) and countless hours of contemplating the forces of the Infernal planes and torments of flesh, a full-grown abomination came forth; a necromantical mockery of life from the witches' black cauldron called ”Ancient Evil Spirits”, embodying four venom dripping evil spells ridden with disease, intoxicated morbid visions through the eyes of possessed prophets of the most hideous of realms. A world of everlasting majestic terror, revelations howled in the shadow of the horns and the force of evil light, forever rejoicing the glorious opening of HELL!
VILE RITUAL: American Occult Death Metal Deformity Joins Sentient Ruin for Debut Album and "Tongues of the Exanimate" Compilation - Track Premiered at Decibel Magazine.
We’re proud to announce our partnership with emerging mysterious American Death Metal disfiguration Vile Ritual, as we prepare the ground for their late 2022 debut album “Caverns of Occultic Hatred”, which will be preceded on January 28 2022 by the "Tongues of the Exanimate" LP compilation, comprising a new thee-track demo on side A and remastered earlier demo tracks on side B.
The "Tongues of the Exanimate" LP compilation serves as a comprehensive introduction to the band’s abhorrent and hallucinating death metal formula and as anticipator to the band’s masterful official debut LP which will see the light later in the year. This compilation has been unveiled by Decibel Magazine who premiered the self-titled opening track stating that the release is “an absolute wrecking ball of dirty, hallucinatory death metal” and that “‘Tongues of the Exanimate’ takes the black/death metal format and adds a psychedelic layer to it, giving the music an ominous tone.“
The gruesome occult hymns of Vile Ritual churn with incantations of eons past to incarnate a most disfigured vision of deviated and perverse blackened death metal ritualism. Born of the black flame of ancient atrocious subterranean rites, "Tongues of the Exanimate" sees the sounds of ghostly utterances travel over cavernous ambiance to create a disembodied, trance-like state, while inhumanly crushing riffs bludgeon the listener and entomb them in a suffocating and grotesque aural burial. Both horrific yet timelessly evocative, Vile Ritual's esoteric blood-drenched blackened death metal melds the feral pestilence of 90's bestial black metal acts like Von and Beherit with hallucinatory atmospheres and the crushing low end of old school death metal butchers like Infester, Rippikoulu, and Imprecation to create a hideous yet hypnotic hallucination of gnarled arcane death metal savagery and abandon. "Tongues of the Exanimate" conjures similar ritual-drenched phantasmal death metal deformities as we've seen in other iconic deviant bands in the genre like Antediluvian, Necros Chrstos, Sect Pig and Chaos Echoes, and is the most recent manifestation in this obscure entity's foul but masterful reveling in total surrealistic ritual death metal barbarity; a 12" vinyl and cassette tape compilation LP envisioned by the band and Sentient Ruin unison that combines three brand new and previously unreleased rituals along with a completely remixed and remastered revision of Vile Ritual's masterful 2019 self-tiled debut demo tape.
Vile Ritual first emerged in 2019 with a defining self-titled and self-released digital EP of surreal and masterful dark atmospheric death metal combining the skull-crushing primitivism of bands like Archgoat and Black Witchery with the hallucinatory and diseased atmospheres of black metal bands like Beherit and Von and the esoteric sophistication of bands like Necros Christos, Sect Pig, and Antediluvian. Re-released on cassette in 2020 by Tempest Tome Tapes, the superlative offering introduced Vile ritual as an entity fully immersed in the darkest death metal craft and dedicated to harnessing the genre’s most timeless evocative power to unearth ancient forms of horrendous esoteric ritualism. In 2021 events came full circle when Vile Ritual and Sentient ruin identified an unholy alliance in each other's respective darkened and sinister ways. The collaborative encounter resulted in the staggering Tongues of the Exanimate" compilation, a meticulously crafted and comprehensive LP containing a re-mixed and remastered version of the aforementioned debut self-titled demo tape along with three brand new and previously unheard tracks. Meanwhile, as"Tongues of the Exanimate" was receiving its final art and master touches before hitting the pressing plant, the next chapter in Vile Ritual’s foul ritualistic death metal quest had already been set in motion, as “Caverns of Occultic Hatred” the first official Vile Ritual debut LP, already loomed on the horizon….
INVULTATION: Bone-vaporizing Second 2021 Full-length LP from American Abhorrent Death Metal Cataclysm Sees Its First Ever Vinyl Release via Sentient Ruin - Available Now Worldwide.
We’re proud to welcome into the family Ohio-based abhorrent death metal cataclysm Invultation, with the band’s masterful 2021 sophomore album "Unconquerable Death" released this month for the first time on vinyl and now available worldwide and the brand new third LP “Feral Legion” now at the pressing plant slated for a late 2022 release on all formats.
Originally self-released in early 2021, "Unconquerable Death" plumbs the depths of total aural savagery, manifesting death metal transmuted into one of its most feral and malefic forms yet. While the band's 2020 debut album "Wolfstrap" introduced Invultation as presence to reckon in the outer realms of bestial and lawless death metal, it is this release in particular - with its majestic wall of sound and chain reaction-like intensity - that has established the Columbus, OH-based one man project as an authentic scourge of creation. "Unconquerable Death" sees Invultation further refine its lupine/lycanthropic concept as a proclamation of total savagery and barbarity, while discharging a cataclysmic payload of unseen wrath and intensity into a thick as concrete production that pushes the atomic yield of death metal beyond is breaking point, materializing one of the most weaponized, devastating and animalistic death metal releases ever conceived in the underground. The album's cristalline production, unforgiving intensity and aggressively virtuosic execution exalted by crystalline leads and driven off the cliffs of oblivion by an arsenal of enormous death-bearing riffs, is an all-encompassing and celebratory end-times ritual to the glory of metal, and an unforgettable chapter, archetype and homage to its most extreme and destructive manifestations.
Invultation began its existence as an aural scourge of creation in Columbus, Ohio in 2015, conceived by solo artist, multi instrumentalist, and sole member and mastermind Andrew Lampe (The Wakedead Gathering, Echushkya, LONGBARROW). Influenced by legendary bands like Archgoat, Black Witchery, Revenge and Incantation, the project set out to conceive abominable hellscapes of utter destruction, an intent that became reality with the band’s self-titled debut demo, released that same year as a home-dubbed cassette released in a limited quantity. The project then sank back into the depths of silence until 2020 when it suddenly re-emerged with the release of its first proper full-length album, "Wolfstrap". This release saw the project morph into more of a death-metal driven entity, with the same bestial black/death metal roots still firmly anchored in its sound. It also displayed a denser and improved production/sound quality, as well as a more fine-tuned focus on its staple lycanthropic misanthropy aesthetic which would become ever so central later on. Without losing any momentum, Lampe unleashed the next bludgeoning Invultation full-length titled "Unconquerable Death" the following year, obscuring anything done until that point, and displaying an even more increased emphasis on production quality, songwriting, sheer tonnage of the riffs and just on all around yield of destruction in Invultation’s annihilating sound framework. "Unconquerable Death" continued and advanced the sound of "Wolfstrap", celebrating the end of all life with the ultimate metal of death. This second full-length offering was officially self-released in March 2021 to positive reception from the underground, which lead to a CD release via Born for Burning Productions that same month.
This is when the release came across the desk of Sentient Ruin and a vinyl release plan soon shaped up for early 2022. At the same time Lampe and Sentient Ruin began preparing the ground for the grand unleashing of Invultation’s third, cataclysmic full-length album, “Feral Legion”, tentatively planned for a late 2022 release.
CHAOS PERVERSION: Sentient Ruin Issues Chilean Black/Death Metal Legion's Light-Devouring Debut MLP "Petrified Against the Emanation" - Track Premiered at Decibel Magazine.
We’re proud to announce our allegiance with Chilean abhorrent black/death metal cataclysm Chaos Perversion as we ready the imminent January 21 2022 release of their debut offering "Petrified Against the Emanation" 10” vinyl MLP, digital and cassette tape formats. A CD version will also be made available via Mexican label Total Death.
The self-titled track from the MLP has been unveiled by Decibel Magazine, who in presenting the track explained that "Petrified Against the Emanation" is “a swirling amalgam of black and death metal that turns the instruments into a sonic force. The music is executed with a combination of precision and savagery that creates a vile atmosphere; if most death metal lives underground, then Chaos Perversion’s music lives in the darkest recesses of a sewer or in a remote cave.“. You can checkout their feature HERE.
Chaos Perversion emanate from the underworld of the glorious South American extreme metal scene with an aural declaration of war aimed straight at humanity like a hell-forged arsenal of complete mass destruction. Loyal and adherent to the tradition and reputation of the legendary and often far too overlooked Chilean black/death and speed metal cult, Chaos Perversion throw the entirely of their negativity and darkened vision into a nineteen-minute debut offering of feral and primal aural darkness worshipping the omnipotence and majesty of total chaos and inevitability. Originally circulated independently only locally in their scene back in 2019, the duo's debut EP "Petrified Against the Emanation" is now presented via Sentient Ruin and Total Death for global audiences as a limited edition vinyl 10", digital product. cassette tape and CD with a new master, brand new graphic layout and new cover art by famed dark tattoo artist Nekronikon (AKA Daniel Corcuera). The posthumously unearthed release introduces the Chilean legion to western/northern hemisphere audiences as a new lethal spearhead of their scene, joining the ranks of compatriot entities like Wrathprayer, Force of Darkness, and Invincible Force as ulterior fuel to the revered and undying dark flame of Chilean aural desecrating cults. Far from being however just a mere product of their scene, throughout Chaos Perversion's scorched hell-scape echoes of adjacent South American legendary cults like Sarcófago, Mystifier and early Sepultura reverberate throughout while the presence of European atrocities like Pseudogod and Grave Miasma reek from its wretched spires like a baneful presence signaling omens and premonitions of unseen black/death ritualism and disarray.
Chaos perversion was formed around 2016 in the city of Osorno (South of Chile) as a solo endeavor of Flauros, playing all instruments. A couple years later around 2018, artist Nox Fragor joined Flauros becoming Chaos Perversion's vocalist, also becoming the band's visual artist. Failing to successfully add a full lineup, the band continued as a duo indefinitely. Sonically, Chaos perversion is a ritual aimed at distilling the purest essence of darkness from various strains of extreme metal, and the band's sound is constructed on dense passages of death and doom metal generating a dense atmosphere full of chaotic, agonizing and gloomy dirges. With influences from Incantation, Blasphemy, Krypts, Katharsis, Cultes Des Dhoules and more, Chaos Perversion conjures visions radicated in the subconscious and oneiric planes, extracted from the dream subconscious, with lyrics focused on post-visualization dream manifestations, the labyrinth complexity of the mind, witchcraft and obscurantism. This dark and ominous cauldron of sonic and conceptual influences was stirred into their first ever release, the 2019 “Petrified Against the Emanation” EP, self-released as a limited tape and circulated only within the band’s local circle in Chile. The devastating EP however made its way to the surface via the internet, being noticed and picked up by Sentient Ruin for a worldwide 2022 release on vinyl and cassette reissue, remastered and with brand new artwork.
LUCIFIXION: American Raw Black Metal Scourge Anticipate 2022 Full-Length Album With Vitriolic Debut Demo Tape "Feral Mass" - Out Now and Streaming in Full.
LUCIFIXION PERPETRATES BLACK METAL TERROR EVER IN OBEISANCE TO THE TRINITY OF HIS EVER LOOMING TRIDENT.
DISGORGED FROM THE YAWNING MAW OF ABJECT DEATH, WE SHARPEN OUR BLADES AND BURN IN DEVOTION AND PASSION. THE WORK IS REPLETE IN MAELSTROMS OF RAW HELL, FANGS BARED AT GOD. POSSESSED BY THE SPIRIT OF VAUNTED LUMINARIES SUCH AS KATHARSIS, ARMAGEDDA, AND CRAFT. MANIC MAELSTROMS OF CHAOTIC RIFFS FRENETICALLY ASSAIL, AS THE LISTENER IS FORCED INTO OMNIPRESENT LUNACY BY WAY OF RIFFS SCOURGING FLESH FROM BONE. THIS IS BLACK METAL DONE THE OLD WAY, WITH AN ATTENTION TO BOTH COMPOSITION AND ATMOSPHERE, TEMPERED WITH FERAL OBEISANCE.
HERE LAYETH THE HAND THAT STIRS TO DEEDS OF BLOOD, THE THORNS THAT BLEED THE GODHEAD. RISE AND REVEAL!
We’re proud to welcome into our family enigmatic raw black metal pestilence Lucifixion, an authentic sonic scourge that has tasked Sentient Ruin with the abhorrent delivery of their face-shredding debut full-length album, to be released in mid/late 2022, and which is being preceded by the venomous debut demo tape “Feral Mass”, here presented.
A song extrapolated from said forthcoming album - the eleven-minute“Feral Mass” - has been re-recorded, mixed and mastered by the band themselves to be released immediately as the eponymous demo/promo tape to give the world a small hint of the utter sonic flailing Lucifixion have seething within their wretched womb, and which will find its full deflagration in the year to come under the form of their aforementioned debut album.
“Feral Mass” documents Lucifixion’s sudden emergence from the depths and obscurity of the USBM underground’s most remote crevices, as they revel in a state of unstable and embryonic chaos almost like a malefic premonition of war. A venomous prelude of greater things to come, the single-track demo is the band’s inaugural death rite, which, while providing unmistakeable clues to the band’s deconstructed and lawless state, is alo just a mere glimpse into the apocalyptic bedlam and aural disarray they have ready for listeners in the forthcoming months.
The staggering demo tape showcases the band accrete around a specific arsenal of influences that include majestic and transformative raw black metal bands like Armagedda, Craft and Katharsis, and then using these influences to shape a vision and identity that are expression of some otherworldly and feral plane of insanity. The eleven minute song “Feral Mass” itself exemplifies this boundless quest for total supremacy of chaos as Lucifixion launch into a series of lengthily and schizoid progressions that drag the listener to the edge of madness, exalting a virtuosic technicality and a highly ambitious songwriting which juxtaposed to the band’s raw and blown out sound materialize a majestic and senses-obliterating sonic plague.
The “Feral Mass” demo/promo was released on December 3 2021 on a limited edition cassette tape, and serves as prelude to the band’s debut full-length offering scheduled for a mid/late 2022 release.