MAURDA
Formed by reclusive members Atypus and KHL, enigmatic German black/death metal cult Maurda first emerged around 2019 with a self-released debut demo tape titled “Errega”, a raw and emaciated document of inscrutable DSBM-infused primitive war metal that hinted at potentially catastrophic developments to follow. The band’s original and cryptic formula was indeed developed further with the 2022 followup MLP "Cultus Brachypter", a sixteen-minute, six-track cataclysm of inward-annihilating, noise-devoured extreme metal shrouded in cryptic onomatopoeic and metaphorical semantics about self-induced winglessness and losing one’s ability to fly, or in other words, to thrive and succeed. This release possibly showed the full realization of the band’s soul-tearing formula: a metastatic abstraction of bludgeoning war metal in the vein of Teitanblood or Pseudogod, eroded away and consumed by the despair and dehumanizing alienation of DSBM acts like Pa Vesh En. A form of aural chaos consumed by misery and degenerated into a claustrophobic inner abstraction devoid of reference points and blurred into the isolationist grimness and hopelessness of pure noise.