URANIUM: American One-Man Black Industrial Terrorscaper Announces Bludgeoning New Album "Pure Nuclear Death" - Track Unveiled at Invisible Oranges.

American one-man nuclear black industrial weapon Uranium returns, transmuted into its most astonishing and terrifying form yet. A statement of unseen magnitude and scope, the second full length album "Pure Nuclear Death" sees the enigmatic East Coast visionary harness a realm of terror and death-torn sonic immensity rarely, if ever, seen before in this plane of reality.

The ghastly album has been teased by iconic underground metal blog Invisible Oranges, who in premiering the eight-minute closing track terroscape of “Black Knight Satellite”, have remarked how the track “wraps up the album with an especially torturous soundscape”, and how the song “creeps, crawls, and sometimes just seems to invade, blending pounding rhythm with hair-raising sound effects“ - you can check out the track and premiere HERE.

Clear from the title alone, "Pure Nuclear Death" embodies the triumph, definition and consecration of a vision and concept which in the span of a just a couple of years and releases so far has already become classic and by all standards and measures, simply unrivaled. Awe-inducing, imposing and inexorably devastating, "Pure Nuclear Death" comprises thirty six minutes, split up into five tracks, of omnipotent, death-heaving black industrial immensity designed to devour the listener and deliver to them a world-ending payload of absolute death. The legacy of bludgeoning, visionary post-industrial acts like Godflesh and early (Cop, Filth-era) SWANS transposed into total oblivion and coerced into a monstrous, lightless abyss of tectonic and crushing blackened electronics. An antihuman concept on nuclear energy and its most godly and terrifying traits incarnated in a sound which is its perfectly executed and envisioned embodiment. An indissolubile fusion reaction between a concept extrapolated from science, ethical literature and philosophy to convey realities of daunting scientific an technological darkness, and a god-like sound assembled from a critical mass of cataclysmic power electronics, apocalyptic industrial and black metal chained together into an otherworldly sonic weapon of absolute atomic death. "We knew the world would not be the same".

Inspired by the god-like ominous aura of nuclear energy, Uranium is the glorification of the great destroyer of civilizations, empires, and worlds. The atom which splits itself into the source of all creation and destruction. The decaying unravelling of molecules and DNA. The endless propagation of unstoppable death, deformities and destruction.

The project first emerged around 2020 as the solo endeavor of East Coast industrial artist AA with the debut full-length album “An Exacting Punishment” self released on Bandcamp digitally. This release was still heavily influenced by black metal with the industrial aspect more sublte compared to later releases. Meanwhile mastermind AA had already refined the project’s sound by shifting it more in the direction of power electronics and industrial noise and intended to showcase this evolution on the subsequent “Glorious Void” EP, also digitally self-released via Bandcamp. This faster than expected improvement in the band’s sound led AA and Sentient Ruin to take down the original “An Exacting Punishment”full-length, and have it remixed and remastered for a brand new release on vinyl which would better match and suit the band’s rapidly evolving black industrial sound. As a result, while waiting for the new version of the debut album to come out on vinyl, AA and Sentient Ruin bundled the “Glorious Void” EP with another brand new EP called “Wormboiler” into a cassette tape full length compilation, released with each EP on each side and eponymously titled “Wormboiler”. The “Wormboiler” cassette tape sold out instantly and was praised far and wide in the underground as a groundbreaking and transformative black industrial and power electronics release. Following over a year in delays caused by the COVID pandemic, finally the“An Exacting Punishment”full-length album was officially physically released worldwide in early 2023 in its restored/updated form, also gaining praise for its dismal industrial sound still heavily contaminated by the band’s early black metal influences. Meanwhile AA had been working away at his most deadly and magnificent work yet, the sophomore full-length album “Pure Nuclear Death”, and authentic weapon of mass extermination in sonic form, a majestic and annihilating work further refining the projects concept on nuclear annihilation and encompassing all of Uranium’s sounds and influences seen until that point, fusing both the crushing power electronics assault seen on “Wormboiler” and the black metal influences seen on “An Exacting Punishment”, while adding even more newly introduced elements to the plate, like the crushing force of experimental and no-wave bands like Swans, black/death metal in the vein of Teitanblood and Tetragrammacide, and even more oppressive and overbearing industrial load derived from the legend of bands like Godflesh, Brighter Death Now, and Scorn. This is its shadow, this is its void, this is URANIUM - American-made atom-glorifying weapon of total aural annihilation.

KONTUSION: East Coast Raw Death Metal/Punk Savages Issue 2022 Debut Demo for the First Time on CD and Vinyl - Pre-orders and Full Stream Available.

We’re proud to announce that East Coast raw death metal/punk savages Kontusion finally will release their pulverizing debut self-tiled demo on vinyl, CD and cassette (reissue) via Sentient Ruin in the wake of its original 2022 self-release on tape and digital formats. Upon release the four-track, seventeen-minute slab of necrotized terror saw the duo of drummer Chris Moore (Repulsion, Coke Bust) and of vocalist, guitarist and bassist Mark Bronzino (ANS, Mammoth Grinder) revel into a gore-splattered, chaos-torn disfiguration of lo-fi, blown out primitive death metal and punk-infused carnage reminiscent of (and influenced by) 80's and 90's bands like Terrorizer, Napalm Death, Discharge, and Convulse. The four skull-crushing tracks see Kontusion regress to a state of demented, feral abandon, incorporating influences from raw punk and hardcore to deconstruct death metal and reduce it to a mangled and scattered pulp reeking of terror and shrouded in destruction.

Kontusion’s debut self-tiled demo can be now pre-ordered on vinyl, CD and cassette formats via Sentient Ruin for a September 29 2023 worldwide release.

Moore and Bronzino formed Kontusion after years of being friends, throughout which the two would jam on riffs while staying at each other's places during stops on various respective tours. Finally around 2021, the duo had the time and energy to start a new band and bring to life years of ideas and interactions shared as friends and as mutual fans of bands like Terrorizer, Napalm Death, Discharge, and Convulse. The idea for Kontusion’s self-tiled 2022 demo (reissued in 2023 by Sentient Ruin) was inspired by the 80’s and 90’s demo tapes and early recordings of legendary death metal bands from that era and their raw, lo-fi sound and minimalist visuals.



ASH PRISON: American Dark Industrial Metal Usurpers Announce Pulverizing Debut Album "Future Torn" - Track Premiered at No Echo.

We’re proud to announce that American industrial metal conspirators Ash Prison (formed by Matt Auxier of electro-industrial act 6th Circle on guitars and electronics, by bassist J. Thompson of East Coast darkwave cult Child Ov Night, and by California-based Italian vocalist M. Alagna of Abstracter, Somnolent and ex-Atrament) arise with their pulverizing debut album "Future Torn", a collaborative, cross-genere usurpation of heavy industrial electronics, dark hardcore punk and black/heavy metal united under the black banner of total anarchy, chaos, and absolute retaliation.

The forthcoming debut long player has been anticipated by stalwart underground alternative and punk blog No Echo, who in premiering the track “Scorn” have remarked that that on the track “the combination of Ash Prison's cacophonous musical arrangements (often utilizing harsh electronic flourishes) and the extreme vocals is a match made in hell“ - you can read the feature and check out the track HERE.

Influenced by acts like Ministry, Skinny Puppy, G.I.S.M., Mayhem, Motörhead, Discharge and Godflesh, on the pummeling debut long player Ash Prison infer of a future, and soon to be, dystopian failed state fallen into complete anarchy and chaos, being paid back with violence and scorn for its own perpetration of injustice and corrupt societal squalor. Within this dark conceptual framework, a crushing barrage of cold sequences, torrential, obsessive drum machines, bulldozing bass lines and abrasive, distorted electronics serve as the backbone to a vitriolic onslaught of grinding guitars and hateful vocals reminiscent of and inspired by the iconic despisal of pioneering underground vocalists like Sakevi Yokoyama and Attila Csihar. A highly original, deadly, and thought-provoking syncretism of dark social commentary and sonic antagonism, "Future Torn" unites various eras, decades, and interpretations of musical insurrectionism to create its own divergent idea of "anarcho-punk", post-industrial dystopia, and heavy metal destruction to soundtrack and instigate the rise of turmoil, riots, violence, and widespread destruction. Elegant and subtle touches of adjacent influences coming from post-punk, gothic rock, power electronics, death industrial, dark ambient and darkwave punctuate the work throughout augmenting its dark aura and rendering the whole work diverse, dense and unpredictable throughout its tense and telluric thirty-plus minutes of grim upheaval.

"Future Torn" is slated for a September 22 2023 worldwide release via Sentient Ruin on LP, MC and digital products along with a full spread of album-themed on-demand apparel.

Ash Prison was formed around 2021 by Matt Auxier of electro-industrial act 6th Circle on guitars and electronics, by bassist J. Thompson of East Coast darkwave cult Child Ov Night, and by California-based Italian vocalist M. Alagna of Abstracter, Somnolent and ex-Atrament. Having met online after being both Sentient Ruin artists, Alagna and Auxier had gone back and forth for some time prior throwing around ideas for a dark metal-infused industrial project following their shared appreciation for bands like Ministry, Skinny Puppy, G.I.S.M. and Slayer, along with a mutual love for goth and darkwave, death industrial, and punk. Auxier wrote, composed and mixed the bulk of the band's 2023 debut full-length album "Future Torn" at his home studio in midst of the COVID pandemic while also handling guitars and all the electronics, while Thompson (an old friend of Auxier) was tasked with the bass tracks (also recorded remotely from the East Coast), and Alagna composed lyrics and recorded vocals from his home base of Oakland CA. The ensuing work materialized as a sonic molotov launched straight and bigotry, ignorance and corruption, with dark, spiteful political commentary in the lyrics delivered by a hateful, ominous vocal delivery inspired by black metal and Japanese punk, and a vitriolic onslaught of cold heavy industrial electronics, pummeling drum machines, scorching electric guitars and smoldering bass lines. "Future Torn" was complemented on the visual side by pertinent artwork by xerox/high contrast Canadian visual master P. Van Trigt, depicting an embittered, ominous corpse-like figure glaring through wires (an empty worthless remnant of the delusion of consumerism) while the mastering behind the album’s raw and blown out sound was handled by iconic underground punk audio engineer Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios.

EGREGORE: Utah-Based Dark Esoteric Grindcore Act Announces Pulverizing Debut Album "Synchronistic Delusions" - Track Premiered at Last Rites.

We’re proud to announce "Synchronistic Delusions", the debut album from dark esoteric Grindcore act Egregore (not to be confused with the Canadian black metal band), to be released in early September 2023 on LP, MC and digital formats along with a full spread of merch on demand.

The destructive forthcoming long player has been teased by poignant underground metal blog Last Rites, who in premiering the track “Birth of Death” have remarked that that the track “determinately carves melody inch by inch into a veneer of sheer brutality before coating it all in an extra finishing layer of rich darkness“ - you can read the feature and check out the track HERE.

With debut full-length album "Synchronistic Delusions" Egregore takes us into ominous realms rarely explored before by, and in the genre: those of metaphysical occultism and supernatural darkness; a descent into the immaterial self and into alterante realities to transform a tradition inspired by bands like Carcass, Discharge, Convulse, Demigod, Terrorizer and Napalm Death into a destructive psychic mind-weapon. Egregore's grim and mystical amalgam of 90's death metal, crust, and grind aims to use the timeless lesson cemented chiefly by Carcass's "Heartwork" and "Necroticism" albums to disintegrate the corporeal self, transfigure the soul and open the listener's third eye unto a superior reality dominated by obscure forces, invisible powers, and higher truths. A passageway album using sonic destruction as a key to dimensions above and beyond the self, "Synchronistic Delusions" continues the band's explorative synthesis into the unknown, bridging 90's death metal and grind, black metal, crust punk and esoteric projections derived from jungian philosophy, occultism, supernatural theology and paranormal cabalism to destroy reality and liberate the mind from its carnal prison.

Egregore is an extreme metal vibration created in 2020 in Ogden, Utah, by multi-instrumentalist solo artist M.A.E. handling all instruments and recordings duties on all his releases by himself. The solo project first emerged in April 2020 with the release of the 1st demo, “Ritual Consciousness”, on Astral Tulpa Records, a blinding obfuscation of blackened death-grind terror that immediately set the tone of the sheer force and vision of the project. The debut demo was soon followed in by the 2nd demo, “Dysthymic Gloom”, also released on Astral Tulpa Records in August 2020, which was an unmistakable step up from its predecessor in production quality and execution, further confirming the project’s bleak and perfectly executed vision. Musically and sonically, Egregore is influenced by a variety of bands in the realms of death metal, black metal, crust/d-beat, grindcore, and beyond. A few of  M.A.E.’s personal influences appearing through the project are Carcass, Darkthrone, Repulsion, Nihilist, Entombed, Sepultura, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Thin Lizzy, Discharge, Bolt Thrower, and Convulse, a broad spectrum of influences which has resulted in a devastating and exceptionally articulate sound. A great deal of importance is given to lyrical content and the project’s themes and symbolism. In Egregore M.A.E. focuses his creativity on the occult, mystical experiences, unexplained phenomena, metaphysics, and other strange encounters and philosophical phenomena permeating the unknown. The project’s name itself is also profoundly mystical and occult, and M.A.E will only provide you with the dictionary definition and will let the reader/listener determine what it means to their own chemically induced hallucinated, subjective human experience: “Egregore” (also Egregor) is an occult concept representing a "thoughtform" or "collective group mind", an autonomous psychic entity made up of, and influencing, the thoughts of a group of people. The breadth of all these concepts, influences, themes and experiences in self-producing and self-recording as a solo artist, soon paved the way to the devastating debut full-length album Synchronistic Delusions", a fully accomplished and perfectly executed long player envisioned by M.A.E. and released in late 2023 by Sentient Ruin worldwide.

"Synchronistic Delusions" is slated for a September 1 2023 release on LP, MC and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin along with a full spread of merch on demand.

ABHORRENCY: US Bestial Black/Death Metal Desecrators Issue 2022 Debut Album "Climax of Disgusting Impurities" on Vinyl - Pre-Orders and Full Stream Available.

Sentient Ruin is proud to bring you a hideous slab of bestial, pulverizing, black/death metal barbarity from the outermost realms of insanity. Sacramento, California-based desecrators Abhorrency bring us their humanity-ending debut full-length abomination, "Climax of Disgusting Impurities", thirty two minutes of complete savagery and bestial sonic abandon worshipping the deranged cult of bands like Death Worship, Conqueror, Bestial Warlust and Proclamation. Unrelenting and antihuman in every aspect imaginable, the nine-song audial weapon of mass extermination establishes a perpetual state of torment and terror within the listener through an unyielding death-bearing black, death, and grind-infused onslaught designed to demolish every human presence by any means necessary. A new cult of total death has risen, and Abhorrency are its new chaos-wielding prophets and emissaries!

"Climax of Disgusting Impurities" is slated for a September 1 2023 release on vinyl worldwide via Sentient Ruin.

Formed in 2019 and featuring current and former members of Rotten Funeral, Defecrator, Denunciation, Killgasm, and Larry David, Abhorrency are formed by veterans of Sacramento’s sprawling current extreme metal scene, and sit atop its stockpile of total musical death with the most hideous and animalistic sound the city has probably every seen. Influenced by everything bestial and deranged like Blasphemy, Archgoat, Black Witchery and Proclamation, Abhorrency are prophets of a shellshocking realm of chaos where humanity is banished and torment rules over everything with an iron fist. Their debut demo surfaced in 2019 with multi-format releases via Stygian Black Hand, Maggot Stomp and Unpure Records, while the debut full length album “Climax of Disgusting Impurities” came to decimate human ears in 2022 again via Stygian Black Hand on cassette, via Goat Throne Records on CD and later in 2023 via Sentient Ruin on vinyl, establishing and perpetrating a sound so vile and perverted to have become a cryptic underground banner to total sonic insanity.







INVULTATION: American Bestial Death Metal Berserker Announces Obliterating New Album "Feral Legion" - Track Unveiled at Toilet Ov Hell.

We’re proud to announce that American bestial death metal berserker Invultation returns with its second full-length abomination "Feral Legion", a thirty seven-minute siege of inescapable black/death ruin whose ominous nature and intents are already clear and evident from the album title alone.

The catastrophically violent record has been teased by underground metal blog Toilet ov Hell, who in premiering the track “Severed Umbilical Chaos” have remarked how on the track “the guitar riff that begins around 1:34 amidst a constantly shifting and blasting rhythm attack soon becomes, in all its malformed glory, the crooked backbone of an unmitigated neck-snapping breakdown.” and continuing that “This willingness to drop out of an unsustainable frenzy into a corrupted sense of straight-forward stomping is the formula for destruction at work on other album standouts such as ‘The Howling Convocation,’ title track ‘Feral Legion’ ‘Lower Beasts’, and ‘Mark of the Fang’. It is very much to the band’s credit that they harness these more traditional black and death metal tropes in their quest for uncivilized domination.” - you can check out the track and feature HERE.

“Feral Legion" takes us forward, or back, to a time once evoked by Einstein in his (supposed) famous words "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones". A time in which humanity's prolonged obsession for power through dominance has reduced the world to a lightless and inhuman prehistoric dark age where primeval animalistic instincts of survival and a complete lack of sanity are the only "logic" reigning. The music marvelously encapsulates this concept unfolding ten dehumanizing, life-scourging slabs of pure shellshock and complete sonic armageddon derived from the immortal legacy of black/death war cults like Blasphemy, Bestial Warlust and Angelcorpse. And while that is the premise and starting point, the means by which Invultation accomplishes its conquest is quite unprecedented for the standards of bestial extreme metal. The "chaos-for-chaos-sake" approach the genre has widely been known for is ignored in favor a hyper-realistic, (technical) death metal-derived approach with a crystalline production that exposes and exalts every moving part in the record, revealing an entity working within an evolved and sophisticated technical and compositional framework in which absolute destruction is achieved solely via the raw tonnage of the riffs and by the superb quality of the performative skill being wielded and weaponized to achieve its conquest of absolute bedlam. 

"Feral Legion" releases August 18 2023 on LP, CD, MC, digital/streaming formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin and is now pre-order able via all our channels.

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.



夢遊病者: Multinational Experimental Black Metal Visionaries Announce Mind-Bending New Album "Skopofoboexoskelett" - New Song Accompanied by Official Music Video Premiere Revealed at Last Rites

We’re proud to announce the renewal of our long lasting friendship and partnership with experimental black metal masters 夢遊病者 (Sleepwalker) and announce the imminent release of their mind-bending fourth full-length album “Skopofoboexoskelett”.

The mind-melting work has been teased by iconic underground metal blog Last Rites, who’ve premiered the official music video for the song “Silesian Fur Coat”, elaborating that “Skopofoboexoskelett” is “a craft of beautiful soundscapes born of memory, rife with tension and release, fluctuating emotions shifting both fluidly and on a whim as they weave these dense but digestible works.“ - you can watch the video, and check out the song and feature HERE.

Where does reality end and where does it begin? And who, or what, decides this? Multinational experimental black metal enigma 夢遊病者 (Sleepwalker) ripropose this question to us via their masterful fourth album "Skopofoboexoskelett", an enigmatic and playfully formulaic quandary of deconstructed visionary counter-music reminding us a simple concept: that reality is dictated by perception, and as such, by manipulating perception (via the arts), any reality is not only possible but also valid. And as is always the tradition with 夢遊病者, music is the alchemical key via which questions are raised and answers are found in the labyrinth of history, culture, lore and world traditions. In the case of "Skopofoboexoskelett", an exploration of the notions of self-reflection, intuition, phobia, luck, and failure in the context of the evil eye, its historical, cultural, physical and metaphysical meanings, as well as its psychological affects, carefully unraveled and revealed. Within this paradigm "Skopofoboexoskelett" takes 夢遊病者's vision, agenda, and intents, further than ever before, with musical boundaries shattered, definitions pulverized, genres, styles and aesthetics ridiculed into a masterful sensorial manipulation which draws the listener into the deceptive and subversive absurdity that is their own perception being stimulated in unprecedented ways. Drawing their own line and dictating the guidelines of music's end as we know it, 夢遊病者 use their unique sonic idealizations made of lysergic black metal excoriations, kraut, psych, noise rock, world music, improvised deconstructionism and schizoid free jazz to transcend conscience and reason, devastate the senses (particularly the auditory one) and open the mind unto a new plane of perception of which the only logic is illogicality, as only true and unquestionable experimental arts dictate and demand. 

“Skopofoboexoskelett”, is set to be released August 4 2023 worlwide on LP, CD, MC, digital/streaming formats, and can not be pre-ordered via all our channels along with a a full merch spread (limited edition screenprinted long sleeve shirt and merch on demand hoodie and tee).

CH'AHOM: German Black/Death Metal Legion Teases Forthcoming Debut Album With Massive Twelve Minute, Single-Song "Ts'ono'ot" Precursor EP - Full Stream Available From CVLT Nation.

We are extremely happy to announce that the new dawn of Ch'ahom is upon us. The German ritualistic black/death metal horde give us a taste of what will materialize on a full scale with their imminent debut album. The single-song "Ts'ono'ot" EP here presented is a colossal twelve minute death-ritual materialized from the same recording sessions of their aforementioned forthcoming debut full-length LP, and is the first real glimpse into the band's new and future shape to come, crystallized as apocalyptic omen via limited edition cassette presentation.

Leading up to its July 7 2023 official release on cassette tape and digital formats, the single-track twelve minute "Ts'ono'ot" EP has been premiered in full by CVLT Nation, with the illustrious underground music blog explaining that “the raw, lo-fi bestial metal-borderlining-on-noise chaos we’ve seen from the band so far is out the window entirely (or almost), replaced by a massive, thick and crystal clear production putting on full display a band at the top of their game and armed with an insane arsenal of destructiveness and inventive.” - you can read the full feature and check out the full stream HERE.

Indeed, completing the metamorphosis from their Von, Sadogoat, Beherit, and Blasphemy-influenced, noise-bordering raw bestial metal beginnings and groundwork, the behemoth track reveals Ch’ahom transfigured into a shapeshifting new mortal ritual weapon of absolute death. New presages are re-worked into the band's new multilayered canvas and into a newfound clearer and outward projecting sound, weaponized with a sophistication, complexity and unpredictability sourced from transformative early psych/prog-infused technical death metal bands like Demilich and Time Ghoul. The band's peculiar and parallel fascination with the golden era of UK 70's prog and particularly with bands like Camel, Yes, and Genesis has done the rest, setting the band's songwriting on a trajectory of inexorable and masterful intricacy, materializing in the end twelve monstrous and bludgeoning minutes of transmuted and kaleidoscopic progressive bestial death metal triumph. Yet, this is nothing but the beginning...

The origins of obscure German black/death metal cult Ch'ahom can be traced as far back as 2016, when the band begun issuing a steady string of cryptic demo tapes in the German underground, up until 2021. During this time frame the band had displayed a blown out, raw and feral sound clearly worshipping bands like Von, Sadomator, Sadogoat, Beherit and other similar primitive black/death gods. These demos captured the eye of Sentient Ruin who made contact with the band right when a change in their sound and songwriting was happening and the ground for a glorious and genre-defying debut album was being prepared. Perfect timing. While the tracks from all these earlier demos were later remastered by Sentient Ruin for a 2023 cassette tape restropective compilation titled “Camazotz Cult“, the once simple, short and fast songs from the band’s early days are now giving way to new compositions stretching out into atmospheric lengths and being punctuated and exalted by the unique technicality, atmospheres and more slowed down paces reminiscent of iconic US and Finish Death Metal bands like Morbid Angel, Infester, Demilich, and Abhorrence, creating a masterful symbiosis between the animalistic violence from their origins and the band’s newfound sense of atmosphere and evocative musical storytelling. Far from ending there, in recent times Ch'ahom's music has begun showcasing also marked prog influences derived from the band's appreciation of 70's English bands like Yes and Camel. This multilayered evolution is now creating a sound appearing vast, relentless, and frenzy-like, almost bordering on insanity, as showcased on their 2023 debut EP “Ts'ono'ot”, a glorious, ten-minute single track prelude to the majestic carnage lurking ahead later in the year with the advent of their official debut full-length album for Sentient Ruin,“Knots of Abhorrence”. This outreach toward more complex and unpredictable composition is completed and complemented by the band's long running theme and subject matter, offering a glimpse into a parallel dimension beyond the purely musical material itself: lyrical themes, concepts, and aesthetics dealing with different prehispanic cultures, their rituals and their art. With their music dowsed in magick, blood, and violence, Ch'ahom try to establish a connection to a subconscious horror we all face in our lives, still to this day, that has been a driving force behind many mythical and mystical traditions that have originated throughout the centuries all around the globe. The accumulation of these influences make this Essen, Germany-based horde a far more complex and thought-provoking entity than the average goat-worshipping black/death band most of us are used to being accustomed with. Ch'ahom are a nightmare simulation, a terror emanating from deep below, screaming from the caverns in the earth in which humanity has hid for centuries from the powers beyond our rational understanding, emanating from the crevices in our super-ego that reveal a direct pathway to the urges we repress. Ch'ahom are the opposite of meditation, an endless onslaught of thoughts, wishes, dreams, fears, impossible to shut out, an overwhelming and maddening samsara.

The single-song "Ts'ono'ot" EP is slated for a July 7 2023 release on limited edition cassette tape and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin.