RAW WAR: Defunct Canadian Crustcore Savages Finally Unleash Posthumous Debut Album "Total Raw War" - Track Unveiled at IDIOTEQ.

We’re proud to honor the legacy of defunct Canadian crustcore legion Raw War with a worldwide release of their long-lost debut full-length album and unreleased 7” EP, both conjoined in the final “Total Raw War” 12” vinyl and digital release.

The exclusive and long awaited work has been teased by iconic punk and hardcore blog IDIOTEQ who’ve revealed the song “Tsar Bomba”, remarking that the track “is a raw, unforgiving sonic assault that captures the essence of their primeval, bulldozing onslaught. Prepare to have your senses obliterated.“ - you can read the feature and check out the song HERE.

Victoria BC's Raw War were a lawless blown out nuclear crust assault that obliterated ears from 2009 to 2013. During that time the band decimated stages and spread total chaos all over the Pacific Northwest with pulverizing live sets and a sound made of pure apocalyptic terror doused in the ashes of humanity's end. Influenced by 80's and 90's UK D-beat and anarcho-punk bands like Doom and Discharge as well as by early Scandinavian crust bands like Anti Cimex and Totalitär, Raw War soon established widespread terror in their native British Columbia region, bringing their derailing and off the chain assault of primitive, ear-splitting noise-punk cacophony to its inevitable end and extreme conclusions. An unnamed full-length album and 7" EP tentatively tiled "Raw Terror" were recorded but never saw the light. Marred by debauchery, lineup instability and their very nature as an entity that far too soon had decided to explode in a shockwave rather than quietly fade away, Raw War disbanded sometime around 2013 leaving a thirty-five minute unforgiving, primeval, bulldozing, crustcore onslaught unreleased and completely unheard of for ten long years. Fast forward to 2023, and Sentient Ruin stepped in to honor the legacy and work of one of BC's most uncompromising and visceral hardcore crust bands by finishing the work and releasing the entirety of the band's long-unreleased material (the untitled full-length album and the "Raw Terror" EP) as the comprehensive 12" vinyl/digital full-length release "Total Raw War".

Total Raw War is scheduled for a February 9 2024 release worldwide via Sentient Ruin on 12” vinyl LP and digital formats and can now be pre-ordered via all our channels.

Raw War were started in Victoria BC. The band immediately distinguished itself in the region for their off the rails nuclear crust assault, the apocalyptic vibe of their songs, and the raw intensity of their live performances. This reputation as a primal and lawless force in the Pacific Northwest punk scene was further cemented by the release of their 2010 debut 7" titled "Population Control", which lead to more shows, tours, debauchery and opening slots for bands like Oi Polloi and Doom, all of which in turn began to stir up even more attention around the band, generating considerable label interest. On the heels of label agreements and continued interest from the punk scene, Raw War decided to enter the studio and record a full length album, immediately following those recording sessions with further recordings, this time in the form of a planned second 7" tentatively titled "Raw Terror". However, neither of these two releases ever surfaced.

Frustrated by the departure of then bassist Justin and by the inability to maintain a solid bassist slot (bassists Brandon and Alan had already preceded him), the founding unit of guitarist Cordie, drummer Bryce and vocalist Dylan opted instead to continue as a trio and changed the band's name to Kaiten, relocating it to Vancouver BC in the process. This change generated hesitation from labels, and threw the two recently recorded and still unfinished Raw War releases into a limbo, that would last for ten long years. Ten years that were declared over when Sentient Ruin stepped in to have the entire unreleased recorded output mastered and released on vinyl/digital as the posthumous “Total Raw War” 12” containing both the untitled debut full-length album and the “Raw Terror” 7” tracks, to give proper homage, peace, and resting place to one of the most decimating and unforgiving hardcore crust entities to ever desecrate Northwestern soil. Long live the Raw War. Long live TOTAL. RAW. WAR.

ABERRATION / DIABOLIC OATH: American Black/Death Metal Surrealists Send Ominous Presages of Bigger Things to Come With Imminent “Divinations” Split 7" - Audio Preview Unveiled at No Clean Singing.

In anticipation of greater, more horrific things to come in the new year, we proudly bring you the “Divinations” split 7” between Aberration and Diabolic Oath, two rising forces of US surrealistic extreme metal darkness.

The twelve-minute split has been teased by No Clean Singing who have revealed a minute-long sample of each of the band’s respective tracks, remarking that the collaborative effort is “evil to the core, as raw and filthy as week-old roadkill, and as oppressive and abyssal as it is berserk, but it’s technically accomplished as well as disturbing and disorienting.“ - you can read the feature and check out the audio previews HERE.

Slated for a January 5 2024 release, this two-song declaration of war upon human psyche showcases the two US-based sorcerers of omnipotent aural terror in complete command of control of their respective crafts as they summon each their own staple idealization of humongous and hallucinatory black/death deformations. “Divinations” serves as a precursor and taste to what's to come, namely the spring 2024 release of the bands’ two new full length albums, Aberration’s colossal “Refracture", and Diabolic Oath’s still secretive but completed second full length abomination.

With influences coming from surrealistic extreme metal beasts like Antediluvian, Altarage, Portal and Impetuous Ritual, Minneapolis MN dark death metal obscurators Aberration debuted via Sentient Ruin with their self-titled 2021 debut 10" EP, an aural pact with total darkness that established them as one of the most imaginative and intimidating new entities in American underground extreme metal. No newcomers to game, Aberration formed in late 2019 with JH of Void Rot on guitar and vocals, DH of Suffering Hour on bass and vocals, AW of Nothingness on guitar, and EC of Tvaer on drums and threw the sum of their talents and influences into an obfuscating sonic glorification of total darkness and oblivion, combining death, doom, dissonant black metal and tenebrous ambient/drone to create an imposing aural hellscape of all-devouring terror. Their surrealistic interpretation of dark abstract death metal will find its absolute triumph and sublimation with “Refracture”, the band’s debut full-length album for Sentient Ruin slated for a spring 2024 release.

Diabolic Oath was begotten in Portland, Oregon in late 2017 by the will of The Temple and of Ominous Void. Almost immediately, Cthonian Incursor was summoned to join, providing blasphemous vitriol and unholy thunderous percussion. The trio soon recorded the first offering, “MMXVIII”, and began the first incursions of unforgettably bleak and bludgeoning live rituals. Soon after, the band began writing new material which coalesced to become their mind-bending and flesh-battering first full-length album, “Profane Death Exodus” released in 2020 by Sentient Ruin. To make this album it was decided early on to implement the unique and unorthodox approach of fretless bass and guitar instruments combined with a triple vocal attack delivered by all members of the group, often simultaneously, to harness something unseen and unheard of before then in extreme metal, and completely ungovernable and unhinged. The band’s sound at this point began to flow as free-form sonic death ritual, beginning to assume abominable and experimental traits, and yielding an imposing sound drenched in lawlessness and chaos. Around the same time an anonymous, ritualistic approach to the live setting was adopted, incorporating in live perfomances meditations on death accompanied by obscure offerings, to further shape the creature’s essence in a realm of mysticism, chaos, and absurdity. The sound of Diabolic Oath is the culmination of a meticulous distillation of influences and styles ranging from black, death, and war metal to doom, and with certain influences (new and old) such as Teitanblood, Morbid Angel, and Bestial Warlust creeping into the mix alternating more pronounced references to more subtle ones. The band has worked tirelessly to carve its Diabolic path, playing shows to support high-caliber underground acts across the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and Mexico. With the debut full-length, “Profane Death Exodus”, the band was intuitively poised to conquer, destroy, and seal the oath, a feat accomplished which paved the way to the next generation of their wretched incantations, namely the cryptic and highly destructive 2022 MLP “Aischrolatreia” (also released on all formats by Sentient Ruin), but mostly, the sublimation of it all, Diabolic Oath’s still unnamed but already ominously looming new heirloom of unconquerable chaos: their immense 2024 sophomore full-length abomination.


JUNTA: NYC Hardcore Punk Insurgents Announce Pulverizing Self-Titled Debut Full-length Album - Track Premiered at DIY Conspiracy.

We’re proud to announce the imminent release of the obliterating debut self-tiled album by NYC dark hardcore punk dissidents Junta, slated for a January 26 2024 release date on LP, digital and cassette formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin.

The release has been announced in collaboration with iconic European punk zine DYI Conspiracy who in premiering the track “Mi Violencia” have remarked that“the upcoming eleven-track album is a powerful statement of social upheaval and dissent, reflecting the band’s deep connection to marginalized and indigenous communities fragmented by segregation and injustice. It’s a raw and intense manifesto of struggle that blends hardcore punk aggression with the poetry of the dispossessed, embodying both idealism and stark realpolitik in their music.“ - you can check out the feature and track HERE.

Raw hardcore punk insurgents Junta arise from the concrete purgatory of New York City with their pulverizing debut self-titled full-length offering, a twenty-minute incursion of blistering upheaval and caustic retaliation. This dark document of crystalline urban terror introduces the NYC four-piece at the height of their rage as they emanate a grim edict against imperialism, genocide, capitalism and social injustice. Junta's uncompromising and militant vision has been known for years in New York City, frequently manifesting with benefit shows across the city aimed at the empowerment and defense of the city's vibrant multicultural underground to which they belong and have committed unconditional militancy. The self-tiled eleven-track weapon of social unrest and abject refusal represents the band's sense of belonging and commitment to a social fabric torn by segregation and injustice and their strenuous combat against powers much larger than themselves which has resulted in a bleak manifesto of cultural warfare. The work encompasses the most bitter aspects of idealism and realism, with this ambivalent concept animating a raw onslaught of blown out, dissonant hardcore aggression interwoven with passages of poetry and spoken word that define and exalt an existence spent at the forefront of strugge and in a perpetual fight for enlightenment and retribution.

Formed in 2015, Junta is a hardcore punk band from New York City with its roots stemming, and running beyond. Over the years the band has brought its dark, dissonant and caustic raw hardcore attack and uncompromising commentary to many stages in and around NYC, playing endless shows with bands Like Dead Heat, Regional Justice Center, Skourge, Spy, Blu Anxiety, Jarhead Fertilizer, Deli Girls and many more. In joy and resistance, the band has also played numerous benefit shows over the years as a motive and drive for continuing their fight. The band then prepared to release its debut album on Sentient Ruin in early 2024, a record that is a focused demonstration and byproduct of the cruelty from our past, the community of our present and the obstacles of our future.

CHAOS ECHŒS: Defunct French Experimental Death Metal Legends Commemorate 2012 Debut Offering "Tone of Things to Come" With Exclusive 10th Anniversary Vinyl Reissue - Pre-orders Available.

We’re proud to commemorate the ten year anniversary of Chaos Echœs' first ever release, 2012’ “Tone of Things to Come”, celebrated as a limited edition vinyl reissue with enhanced artwork to homage and consecrate the origin of an unforgettable legacy that will never fade our memory's reach. Vinyl and digital pre-orders are already open with a ship date set to December 22 2023.

With "Tone of Things to Come" Chaos Echœs instantly established themselves as the very future of underground extreme metal, elaborating a formula rooted in arcane sepulchral dark death metal characterized by lengthy instrumentals and innovative detours deep into remote areas of history, art, culture and lore that would dictate the rhythm and tempo of a staggering metamorphosis of ascension. Still rooted in the legacy of Incantation, Morbid Angel, and Immolation, at its inception "Tone of Things to Come" had however already revealed widespread mutations in the fabric of conventional extreme metal and opened the eye of transformation, with its omniscient glare gazing through a spectral veil concealing abhorrent forms of ritualism and exploration within it. Enigmatic minimalisms crafted from unconventional instrumentations and improvisational free-flowing jam sessions were an already well established means of transcendence and transmutation within this earliest form of the band, and "Tone of Things to Come"'s oracular load of experimentation was already foreboding musical changes in consciousness and perception on a massive scale lurking not too far away on the horizon. A would-be future for extreme metal which we all now too-well know, love, and will forever miss.

There will never again be an entity quite like Chaos Echœs, one capable of opening worlds within the listener and which had become such a synonym of transformation and of the fearless defiance of dogmas and conventions. A beacon for metamorphosis and boundary-dissolvement bridging effortlessly the sidereal distances between performance art, world music, ritualism, and death metal, that would help cement thereafter the undeniable and manifested explorative genetics of extreme metal. And as the sands of time and the immortality of this legacy fixate the greatness and majesty of those who dare, burning them forever into our minds, "Tone of Things to Come" remains a reminder for all that great legacies are built on great transformations, and the courage that motivates them. 

From NUCLEAR WAR NOW! PRODS.: "Deriving their name from the last album by their predecessors, Bloody Sign, Chaos Echœs established themselves as France’s masters of Avant Garde Death after quietly releasing a series of EPs featuring the band’s characteristically unorthodox material. Combining magnificent complexity, an exceptionally high degree of musicianship, and a distinct sense of experimentalism, Chaos Echœs is among the most captivating bands in the underground – a band truly incapable of simple categorization."

France's Chaos Echœs were truly one of the most unique, forward-thinking, mind-bending, and genre defying metal bands to emerge in the underground in recent times. Their ritualistic death metal found such a high degree of expression nowhere else, while their keen sense of experimentalism and free-form approach to extreme metal has always yielded time after a time an utterly magnificent, mesmerizing, and extremely profound body of work. Within their framework of jazz-laden, lysergic, and almost unpredictable death metal one can always distill the purest essence of improvisation, as it is meant to be only in the most ambitious and purest forms of unshackled artistry. With no boundaries or rules limiting them, Chaos Echœs have always reached beyond and tapped into the unknown, bringing together time after time some of the most extraordinary and unsettling forms of musical synthesis ever achieved by extreme metal. With songs blending death, doom and black metal, prog, kraut, free-jazz, drone, and immaterial tribal ritualism, demos and EPs released as live improvised recordings, full-length albums always showing a fathomless ambition and experimentalism, and artwork always lying on the border between the absurd and the grandiose, Chaos Echœs were consistently from 2011 to 2019 one of the greatest bands in experimental underground metal.



SULFURIC HATRED: American Warnoise Terrorists Announce Decimating Self-Titled Debut Album - Track Premiered at Machine Music.

We’re very excited to announce the debut self-titled album by emerging East Coast chaos-mongering warnoise terrorists Sulfuric Hatred (formed by vocalist Alexander Jones of Undeath, guitarist/bassist Liam McMahon of Vile Ritual, and Sam Shereck of Stabbed, Exsanguinated, Bowel Erosion, Blame God, ex-Pink Mass, ex-Reeking Aura etc. ), scheduled for a December 15 release on LP, MC, CD, and digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin.

The cataclysmic debut offering has been teased by always attentive music blog Machine Music, who in premiering the song “Foul Poison Insatiable” have remarked how the release represents “one of the best, most ferocious death metal albums of the year.“ - you can read the feature and check out the song HERE.

The self-titled Sulfuric Hatred album brings a new meaning and purpose to the concept of dehumanizing music and of its forced transmutation into a weapon. Bringing the listener to their knees to surrender, succumb and dissolve before the omnipotency and immensity of absolute armageddon, across its elven tracks and thirty four minutes of musical terrorism, Sulfuric Hatred experiment on human senses the limits and effects of complete audial insanity. Black metal, grindcore, and death metal in this context can be used as nothing more than simplistic references for the sake of generalization, as the actual and true fabric really materializing this abomination is something that can hardly be associated to music and which is actually closer to pure noise, to other forms of experimental sensorial warfare or to abstract idealizations of pure terror. An underlying contradiction that can not be overlooked defines this senseless display of audial savagery: where in most bands and subgenera of extreme music an antihuman aspect is sought out musically, in the case of Sulfuric Hatred, the formula of bass, guitar, drums and vocals is actually the last human thing standing. The incessant carpet-bombing blasting, the ear-splitting screams, and the mangled, chaotic guitar carnage, in the chaos-torn world of Sulfuric Hatred are nothing but the last shred of humanity left. Everything else being engulfed and devoured in this blown out, noise-broken abomination, is the embodiment of absolute, abstract, and conceptual antihuman bedlam.

Sulfuric Hatred formed in late 2021 from the dismal imagination of guitarist/bassist Liam McMahon (Vile Ritual), and vocalist Alexander Jones (Undeath), who had envisioned a weaponized form of audio terrorism inspired by black/death metal bands like Angelcorpse, Blasphemy and Conqueror, but with an augmented load of ruin brought forth by their parallel interest in powerviolence and industrial noise. The duo set out to create a debut demo to test their ideas, which materialized as the 2022 "Demo MMXXII" cassette tape released via Transylvanian Recordings. This release cemented the duo's vision and ambition to explore their war-mongering creation further, so drummer Sam Shereck (of Stabbed, Exsanguinated, Bowel Erosion, Blame God, ex-Pink Mass, ex-Reeking Aura etc.) was brought on board to free the band of the studio-only environment and transform it into free-raging weapon of mass annihilation that could decimate stages and assume a more dynamic and self-sustained band form. This new lineup as a trio found immediate alchemy and set out to write and record their official self-titled debut album released by Sentient Ruin in late 2023, an ear-splitting cauldron of noise-ravaged black/death metal terror compounded from pure chaos and spread across eleven tracks and over thirty six minutes of cataclysmic audial warfare.




ABYSSAL RIFT: US Dark Death-Doom Monstrosity Reveal Crushing Debut Album "Extirpation Dirge" - Track Premiered At Decibel Magazine.

Abyssal Rift emerges from the bowels of hell with its debut-full length monstrosity, "Extirpation Dirge", a thirty six-minute miasmatic behemoth of dark and antihuman death-doom conceived by Columbus, Ohio-based multi-instrumentalist Matt Auxier (of industrial acts 6th Circle and Ash Prison) handling all instruments, songwriting and recording, with the exception of drums (performed and recorded remotely by David Mahony of Irish black/grind terrorists Unyielding Love).

A hint of things to come has been given by Decibel Magazine, who in premiering the track “The Scourge” have remarked how “some of the best death metal is experimental but still straightforward, striking a balance that comes easily to few. Abyssal Rift achieve just that with this record.” - you can hear the track and check out the feature HERE.

Abyssal Rift is the manifestation of Auxier's long-running history as a metalhead and of his extensive appreciation (parallel to that for industrial music) for dark and atmospheric death metal bands like Incantation, Disembowelment and Immolation as well as for 60's and 70's prog bands like Goblin, King Crimson, Eloy, and Amon Düül II, which in the context of his expertise and knowledge as a producer and home studio owner, has yielded a dense and disorienting dark death metal beast shrouded in surreal atmospheres and an hallucinatory form of dirge-like experimentalism. An all-devouring obfuscation of abyssic crush depth, "Extirpation Dirge" seems horizonless and bottomless as it propagates and gravitates downward like a churning maelstrom, alternating moments of obliterating machine-like dark death metal destruction to others of misery-torn doom and cinematic widescreen experimentalism, with dense synth work alternating contemplative passages of clean guitars and ominous presages of spectral dark ambience. 

"Extirpation Dirge" is slated for a December 1 2023 release date on LP, MC, CD, digital formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin.

Abyssal Rift started in Columbus, Ohio, started in 2022. The brainchild of multi instrumentalist Max Auxier (6th Circle, Ash Prison). While primarily known as an industrial musician/producer, Abyssal Rift is the manifestation of Auxier’s long running history as a metalhead and fan of warped, abysmal death metal, particularly that of bands like Incantation, Immolation and Disembowelment, and of his lengthy experience as a music producer. Conceived within his Columbus OH home studio during the COVID pandemic, the band’s debut album “Extirpation Dirge” features Auxier has sole songwriter, also handling all guitars, basses, vocals and keys/synths on the album, with only the drum parts being outsourced to seasoned grindcore drummer (David Mahony of Unyielding Love). The tracks were then sent to Will Killingsworth of Dead Air for mix/master, completing Abyssal Rift’s debut abomination “Extirpation Dirge”, a thirty six-minute behemoth of abyssic, dark death metal shrouded in hallucinatory atmospheres and broken up by desolate, slow-crawling dark ambient-infused doom dirges. As a long time Sentient Ruin artist via his industrial projects 6th Circle and Ash Prison, Auxier joined the label’s ranks also with Abyssal Rift, and “Extirpation Dirge” saw the light in late 2023. At the same time Auxier began recruiting other musicians in the Columbus area to assemble a live lineup for the band and bring Abyssal Rift to a stage.






CEREMONIAL BLOODBATH: Vancouver BC-Based Bestial Death Metal Horde Announce Second Full-Length Abomination "Genesis of Malignant Entropy" - Track Unveiled at Toilet Ov Hell.

“Born beneath a black hole. Callers of nuclear Armageddon. From beyond, decipherers of the unnameable sickness. Driven mad by unholy flute and war drums of a sadistic deity. Mindless automatons, blind worship. Fornicators and abusers of dirt and moral filth. Desecrators of the holy man's moral oasis and extractors of perverse soul.”

We’re honored and proud to renew our unholy pact with Canadian bestial death metal nightmare Ceremonial Bloodbath, and announce the imminent release of the band’s devastating second full-length album “Genesis of Malignant Entropy”, to be released November 17 2023 on LP, CD, MC and digital/streaming services worldwide.

The abominable work has been teased by reputable underground metal blog Toilet Ov Hell, who have premiered the song “Bloodlust Raids of Vengeance“ remarking that the upcoming work is a “a sharpened onslaught of twisted steel and death appeal“ - you can check out the feature and the track HERE.

War-mongering bestial black/death metal cult Ceremonial Bloodbath re-emerge from the fetid underground of Vancouver, BC with their sophomore full-length abomination, "Genesis of Malignant Entropy", an all-devouring, abyss-like monstrosity conceived from pure terror and insanity. Seemingly dwelling on a plane of atrocity entirely its own, "Genesis of Malignant Entropy" sees the Canadian horde once again draw its primeval life-force from the iconic legend of bands like Blasphemy, Bestial Warlust and Proclamation, but reworking it across a broader, more enigmatic canvas laced with a consciousness-obliterating amount of disassociatives and hallucinogens. Nothing less than an authentic horror of creation, this is a work in which the feral and animalistic traits of its main influences appear to be exaggerated to the point of acephalic bestiality, while a hideously deformed and surrealistic aura is achieved via pure sensorial torment and a complete deconstruction of reality. A fuming cauldron of skull-stomping neanderthalian drums, tortured howls, and on onslaught of demented, mangled guitars shrouded in destruction emerges from this unholy conception, rendering the listener nothing less than meat to be violently torn in an otherworldly primitive ritual disembodiment. The utter atrocity conceived and the strange and unorthodox ways through which such carnage was conceived will leave the listener butchered and sensorially violated in an authentic delirium of destruction.

Ceremonial Bloodbath are a Vancouver BC elite horde of abominable sonic extermination, featuring members of Scum Division Cult, Nightfucker, Encoffinate, Radioactive Vomit, Grave Infestation, Mass Grave, Temple of Abandonment, Deathwinds etc. The band come together around 2016 to summon a darkened scourge of complete death metal bestiality and aural abandon. The debut LP “The Tides of Blood” was relased on Sentient Ruin in late 2020, the 7” demo “Mutilation of Sacrifice” followed in 2022, while the sophomore full-length abomination “Genesis of Malignant Entropy” will devour human ears in late 2023. Yet there is no end to the torment-ridden, all-consuming bestial death metal nightmare nightmare headed into the end times…..

CH'AHOM: Progressive Black/Death Metal Horde Announce Bludgeoning Debut Album "Knots of Abhorrence" - Track Revealed at Decibel Magazine.

We’re extremely proud to announce that hallucinatory prog-infested bestial black/death metal horde Ch'ahom will unchain absolute chaos-wielding sorcery this November with their debut full-length album "Knots of Abhorrence", a triumphant arrival point of sorts testifying a long and transformative sonic journey started almost a decade ago, and now finally reaching its pinnacle and absolute consecration.

The mind-expanding debut album has been teased by Decibel Magazine via an exclusive premiere of the second track from the album “Chavín de Huántar“ - you can check out the feature and the track HERE.

Having started as far back as 2015 and existed for many years as a raw, bestial obscure war cult following in the steps of bands like Sadogoat, Blasphemy, Beherit, and Proclamation, in recent times Ch'ahom have been undergoing an expansive metamorphosis of their sound and songwriting, now juxtaposing a crisp and dense production quality to their primeval terrorscape, that exalts new elements incorporated from early 90's technical death metal in the vein of Timeghoul and Demilich, as well as from 70's UK prog influences derived from the band's peculiar interest in acts like Yes, Camel and Genesis. Ch'ahom's long running mesoamerican concept about pre-columbian rituals and death cults has also conversely benefitted from this recent sonic transfiguration, with their staple tribal contaminations and ornamental interludes (written and performed by the members themselves with traditional instruments) now assuming a whole new presence against the backdrop of the album's devastating scope and vision. Across it's sprawling forty-plus minutes and five dismal tracks, "Knots of Abhorrence" unfolds a pure masterclass of rare violence, atmosphere and intensity, carrying the listener across a gruesome wormhole and into another dimension of history's past where violence, carnage, bloodshed, magic and ritualism incarnate the sum of mankind's biggest and most ancestral fears. Those lurking in our subconscious and within the hidden cracks of our ego and which have often transmuted into madness and ravaged and derailed human society, culture and sanity and created some of the darkest and most chaotic eras of our history.

"Knots of Abhorrence" is officially scheduled for a November 3 2023 release worldwide via Sentient Ruin on LP, MC, CD, and via all main digital/streaming services.

The origins of obscure German black/death metal cult Ch'ahom can be traced as far back as 2016, when the band spent the next five years up until 2021 issuing a steady string of cryptic demo tapes in the German underground. 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 cults. 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 had begun 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 a marked prog influence derived from the band's appreciation of 70's English bands like Yes and Camel. This multilayered syncretism of styles gave birth to a sound appearing vast, relentless, and frenzy-like, almost bordering on insanity, as showcased on their 2023 debut EP “Ts'ono'ot”, a glorious, twelve-minute single track prelude to the majestic carnage lurking ahead with the advent of their official debut full-length album for Sentient Ruin,“Knots of Abhorrence”, released later the same year in late 2023. This outreach toward more complex and unpredictable composition was 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.