DISIMPERIUM
Portland, Oregon black/death/grind horde Dismperium join the Sentient Ruin ranks to unleash their otherworldly aural apocalypse upon mankind. Formed by members of Misrule and Ascended Dead and treading the same outer limits of musical cruelty of bands like Knelt Rote, Impetuous Ritual and Damaar, Dismperium emerged in 2021 with the “Malefic Obliteration” EP, a blinding assault of feral and dark blackened death metal destruction propelled toward oblivion by the barbaric ferocity of grindcore’s most uncompromising fringe. Disimperium have been in some way linked to Sentient Ruin even far before their existence. The band’s origins can be traced back to the grindcore solo project Misrule, by East Coast native and now Oregon-based multi-instrumentalist and visual artist S. Mahoney. Misrule emerged in 2018 with its debut demo tape “Forced to Suffer”, issued by Sentient Ruin to positive reviews in the wake of its ferocious and unrelenting aural attack. The success of “Forced to Suffer” lead Mahoney to seek out live members to expand the project’s scope of action beyond his home studio. This lead to a string of local musicians to be briefly involved until members of Ascended Dead and of other local extreme metal bands came in contact with the project, and the union pushed the premises into a darker and even more violent territory which prompted everyone involved to start fresh with a new name and project that would take on a life and sound of its own. The original grindcore influences coming from Knelt Rote and Vermin Womb were thus completed and enhanced by other elements inspired by black and death metal bands like Adversarial, Archgoat, and Impetuous Ritual, which lead the forging of Disimperium’s dark and inhuman aural weapon of total mass extermination and became ever so evident on the band’s 2021 debut “Malefic Obliteration” EP 7”. On the heels of such a catastrophically extreme sound and accomplished vision Disimperium garnered recognition and attention in their scene and began playing live shows more consistently bringing their inhuman assault to crowds spread about the entire Northwest. Two years later their debut full-length album "Grand Insurgence Upon Despotic Altars" was released in summer 2023 gaining acclaim from underground press and establishing them as one of the most violent and confrontational entities to appear in the West Coast’s underground extreme music scene in recent years.