Its been over 20 years in the making, but New Zealand death metal machines Sinistrous Diabolus have finally unleashed their full length debut upon the hapless ears of humankind. Formed with ties to infamous occult acts Witchrist and Diocletian, Sinistrous Diabolus pay homage to a soundscape invoked in 1993 that pushed forth with the idealism of absolute soul crushing blasphemy. Total Doom // Desecration is 40-minutes of ritualized misery spanning across scathing constructs that push an atmosphere wrought with trepidation, and utter decay. Within, Sinistrous Diabolus reinvent older tracks, shaping them into a form that become a mesmerizing void, drawing all into its monolithic gaze.
Defined by the abhorrence of divine doctrine, Total Doom // Desecration maintains an aura of intense dispair that negate luminescent drones, and bury them in filth. Personified by torturous harmonies that dwell in the recesses of the mind, stagnating within putrid noise screeching amidst torrential waves of endless torment. Barbaric by design, this is an album that is enveloped by creeping movements that bore themselves into the chasms of your most desperate pleas, inexorably building towards a swirling downfall littered with apprehensive dread. Perverse passages give way to further doom that punishes throughout, offset by somber lachrymose undertones that hold no reverence for comfort.
We are so stoked to bring you this special edition of our Artist to Artist Interview series! AJ from Brooklyn’s Sannhet filmed and edited an awesome conversation between Colin Marston (Krallice) and Chris Todd (Sannhet), who talk to each other about recording at The Thousand Caves in Queens, NY. Check out this rad interview below!
On May 14th, the mighty ORCHID release their new album The Mouths of Madness via Nuclear Blast Records and from what I have heard its the bomb! Today we want you doomedelic humans to peep their new video for “Wizard Of War”! Stay tuned, we have something special in the works with ORCHID soon…Pre-order The Mouths of Madness HERE!
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New DISPIRIT Track
“All Paths End The Same”2
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“111112″, The latest release from The Mysterious Dark Bay Area Quartet, Dispirit, is now available to order directly from the band at info@dispirit.org/.
This band is truly something special. This is the latest release from the Artist behind The Gault, Weakling, & Asunder. All of which are incredible and should be essential listening for anyone trying to expand their dark musical horizons. When you have a pedigree like that with the new addition of Sixes, your listening experience is going to be otherworldly.
This is a preview of a frightening track titled, “All Paths End The Same”. There’s a continuation of the romanticism of misery and absolute horror involved in their trademark soundscaping style and now it’s even denser and more methodically controlled. Unnerving, Hypnotic Bliss. Enjoy the preview and make sure to support the band.
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Ides of Gemini and Ghost BC
at the El Rey
Adam Murray Photo Essay0
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Whatever Ghost BC is doing, they seem to be excelling at it. I can’t say I’m a fan, but this show was sold out weeks in advance. The venue, not small by any means, was packed full of smiling fans singing along. The merch line was no less than 90 people long until everyone had a thirty dollar shirt and an LP in their hands. Those LPs sold out not more than a week or so into tour. I’m sure the dildos will sell out too, if they haven’t already. Now, I could attempt to delve into the Ghost spectacle, hypothesize the mystery, who/why and so on, but I think there’s been enough of that circulating already so I won’t bore you with more of it here. On with the show…
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CVLT Nation Streaming
DEMON LUNG “Eyes of Zamiel”1
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Excuse me as I take in the resin-coated riffs of DEMON LUNG into my brain. On June 4th, the band releases their new album entitled The Hundredth Name via Candlelight Records. Over 8 songs, DEMON LUNG casts their doomadelic spell that will leave you feeling high as fuck in their doom-laden slumber. Adam Myatt and Billy Anderson (Neurosis, The Melvins, Sleep) handle production duties while English illustrator Tom Bates (Vision of Disorder, Amorphis) drew their amazing cover. CVLT Nation is honored to be streaming DEMON LUNG’s new tune “Eyes of Zamiel” below!
KYLESA has just released another anthem, “We’re Taking This,” off of their soon-to-be-released album Ultraviolet (pre-order HERE). Press play and find out why this record is going to stick with you once you hear it! CVLT Nation is proud to be a part of KYLESA’s tour that starts on May 10th (tour poster below). To psych yourself up for their impending tour, have a listen to “We’re Taking This” and ride their dirge into space!
Two days ago, one of our favorite bands had their record release party in Brooklyn. I’m talking about BATILLUS, who performed their new album Concrete Sustain in full! Pit Full of Shit was on hand to capture their intense performance of this outstanding album. If I write the list for the top 6 Doom records of 2013, BATILLUS’ Concrete Sustain has earned a spot in my book! In the meantime, check this radical show and if you do not have this album you can go HERE to pick it up…I have my white vinyl version in our collection and it gets blasted on the regular! Check out the CVLT Nation review of Concrete Sustain!
Look at the artwork that adorns this split release. It’s a forest or hillside that, at any other time would, have been a picturesque scene but here it is now, engulfed in a sea of flames, a conflagration that is burning this once serene area of nature to the ground, leaving only ash and sorrow in its wake. If there ever was a fitting image to complement the music held within the record this is it. This is the split cassette between Amarok and Hell.
Both bands have always offered their own brands of diseased doom metal with drone and sludge elements and each released noteworthy split records last year respectively, Amarok with Pyramido and Hell with Thou, so their pairing for this split makes perfect sense and easily gives their predecessor records a run for their money.
Amarok serve up a 20 minute dirge of harrowing sludge in the form of ‘V: Red Oak Wisdom’. It wastes no time whatsoever, erupting with a cataclysmic riff that ushers us into a dreary world of doom that trudges along with Thou-like riffs that would move tectonic plates. This is until around the eight minute mark where the band fearlessly recoils into sombre territory where piano and strings take centre stage, crafting an entirely different world for the listener.
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ROADBURN 2013 Day 20
Posted In Apocalyptic Blues,Art,Avant Garde,Doom,Music,Photography,Sludge
All photos & text by Luana Magalhães
Amenra
Arguably the most intense, harrowing performance of the whole festival, Amenra were pure catharsis – the outpouring of pain and anguish was evident in each blood-curding Colin Eeckhout scream and every resounding note of their instruments. Most massive sound of the weekend too – the soundcheck before the show alone was enough to nearly rearrange internal organs.
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