NEKUS | Death Apophenia
NEKUS | Death Apophenia
Release date: November 15 2024
Catalog: SRUIN235
Genre: Death-Doom
Format: full-length album
Versions: LP | CD | MC | Digital
Band Info
EXCLUSIVE DISCOUNTED 3LP VINYL BUNDLE: SAVE $10! GET BOTH OF NEKUS' ONLY FULL-LENGTH ALBUM VINYL RELEASES SO FAR + BANDCAMP DIGITAL RELEASE FOR BOTH. INCLUDES:
1. New album “Death Apophenia”: 12" LP on colored or black vinyl
2. "Sepulchral Divination": 2023 debut 3-sided 2LP with silkscreened D-side and gatefold sleeve. Listen/view here.
DIE-HARD TEST PRESSING PACKAGE: two of only seven made - available for sale here. Comes in a custom made black fold-over cover silkscreened with metallic gold ink. Hand-numbered and with all release info hand-written with metallic gold felt-tip pen, signed and stamped with the SR sigil in gold ink. Includes secret mystery silkscreened graphic inside.
VINYL: limited edition ashen swirl colored vinyl (100 units worldwide - direct label retail item not wholesaled or distributed) or standard black vinyl inside a matte laminated sleeve with black flood inside the pocket, black poly-lined inner bags and download card.
CD: limited edition jewel case CD with clear tray and full color booklet.
EXCLUSIVE DISCOUNTED 2CD BUNDLE: SAVE $5! GET BOTH OF NEKUS' ONLY FULL-LENGTH ALBUM CD RELEASES SO FAR. INCLUDES:
1. New album “Death Apophenia” jewelcase CD
2. "Sepulchral Divination" 2023 jewelcase CD. Listen/view here.
CASSETTE TAPE: limited edition cassette tape with full color j-card and download card.
The German underworld lurkers of humongous subsonic death return with "Death Apophenia", a death-scarred sonic interment into absolute subterranean torment, and their most lightless and catacombal statement to date. The colossal sophomore full-length entombment expands on the putrid and crushing heaviness of its critically acclaimed predecessor “Sepulchral Divination”, taking the band's formula of droning sepulchral death doom to its most inevitable and horrendous triumph yet. With its forty-plus minute running time split up in just five pachydermic movements, "Death Apophenia" casts the listener down into an aphotic sunken abyss to be torn apart by immense tidal forces and crushed by catastrophic tectonic pressure. The band’s staple use of reverb to create immense, growling subterranean hallways reaches the pinnacle of its mastership, and so does their ability to construct humongously grotesque atmospheres that make the listener feel like they are being devoured by the earth and mummified alive. Tortured screams drenched in feedback and enormous and solemn sounding drum shells create a ritual-like telluric funeral march into the underworld, while slabs of inhumanly crushing and downtuned guitars bore a massive hole into the earth like molten lava melting the crust and sinking downward into the blackest chasm, evoking the sensation of an enormous, planet-sized horrendous burial taking place. Nothing can escape the sheer tonnage and crushing force of this immense sonic beast, and while Nekus are shown to be diligently delving further into the redefinition and delineation of their own personal idea of death metal as a monolithic and cinematic sentence to complete aural entombment, the comparisons to bands like Grave Upheaval, early Temple Nightside, Moss, Anatomia and The Funeral Orchestra, due to the surreal hideousness of the atmospheres and sheer heaviness of the music, will be many and not far from truth.
Digital download included with the purchase of analog physical copies.
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