Cthonica - Lesser Incantations of Chthonic Lore

Sepulchral black death metal from Caracas Venezuela, second offering.

Premonições: Inferno - PARADEIGMA (Phosphenes of Aphotic Eternity)

 

"PARADEIGMA (Phosphenes of Aphotic Eternity)" is the definitive work from idiosyncratic Czech avant-Black Metal band INFERNO. Burrowing further into the dense, hypnotic soundworlds initiated on 2017’s "Gnosis Kardias", this newest emission formulates an alluring new language from the isolationist syntax of Black Metal, blending the contemplative and the disturbing into a mesmeric journey through veiled psychic recesses and towards the infinite. Using layers of guitar tracks, abstruse vocal and sound textures, intricate martial rhythms and ominous dynamism, INFERNO have produced a surreal dreamscape inspired in part by the most obscure, forward-thinking records of BLUT AUS NORD and THE CURE, 70s-80s Post-punk and the ingenuity/sheer fanaticism found within the Black Metal canon. Conceptually "PARADEIGMA" goes deep into psychology, cosmology and horror - primarily influenced by "The Cosmos as Self-Creation" from Czech writer Michal Ajvaz, "Time Reborn" by the physicist Lee Smolin and above all "The Red Book" of Carl Jung - to conjure, in the words of the band: “abstract visions of semi-liquid currents moving within a vast ontological structure where individual layers interact in unceasing cosmic dynamics”. Mournful and oppressive, delirious and strangely uplifting; "PARADEIGMA" is a dank, paradoxical and uniquely immersive piece of Luciferian art which opens a portal to the beyond.

Ixaxaar Nexia - Demo MMXX

"The Toronto-based quantum death quartet shred genre distinctions, ear drums and listener expectations within the opening moments of their three-track deadly, alien artifact of a demo. Faster than black metal, more brutal and break-neck than death metal and far too intelligent for what we’ve come to consider war metal, Ixaxaar Nexia slay apex chaos nearly beyond human comprehension. Like Quo Vadis on DMT, or Mitochondrion’s collective brain transplanted into Anaal Nathrakh’s body, Ixaxaar Nexia’s demo is extinction-goading, intergalactic war metal".

Medicação 2020

"We saw the light fall from your eyes and heard the last call from all your voices."

Internacional

1 - Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou - May Our Chambers Be Full

2 - Inquisition - Black Mass for a Mass Grave 

3 - Turia - Degen Van Licht 

4 - Häxenzijrkell - Die Nachtseite

5 - Precambrian - Tectonics 

6 - Kraken Duumvirate - The Stars Below, the Seas Above

7 - Battle Dagorath - Abyss Horizons

8 - Ayr - The Dark

9 - Abigor - Totschläger (A Saintslayer's Songbook)

10 - Gryftigæn - Graven til Måneåpenbaringer

11 - Nexion - Seven Oracles

12 - My Dying Bride - The Ghost of Orion

13 - Paysage d'Hiver - Im Wald

14 - The Spirit - Cosmic Terror

15 - Khthoniik Cerviiks - Æequiizoiikum

Demos/Ep/Splits/Digital

1 - Hadopelagyal/Thorybos - Conjuring Subterranean Vortex

2 - إستدعاء الرياح السوداء القديمة - الجن

3 - Writhing - Eternalised In Rot

4 - Shaidar Logoth - Chapter III The Void God

5 - Amenra - The Cradle (Demos)

6 - Noroth - It Dwells Amongst Us

7 - Ahna - Crimson Dawn

8 - Yaotl Mictlan - Sagrada Tierra del Jaguar

9 - Proscrito - Llagas y estigmas

10 - Gneterswart - Gneterswart

11 - Ringarë - Sorrow Befell

12 - Maquahuitl - At the Altar of Mictlampa

13 - Vaeok - Vaeok 

14 - Sign of Evil - Psychodelic Horror

15 - Vaki - Kuolleen Maan Omaksi

Portugal

1 - Lord Sin - Portrait of the Devil

2 - Necrobode - Sob o Feitiço do Necrobode

3 - Via Sinistra - Silencioso Culto Do Abismo

4 - Spitgrave - Purge

5 - Summon - Helios

6 - Irae - Lurking in the Depths

7 - Sacred Sin - Born Suffer Die

8 - Skinning - Homicidal Experimentations

9 - ThrashWall - ThrashWall

10 - Adverso - Descent

11 - Narcömancer - Narcömancer

12 - Vectis - No Mercy for the Weak

13 - Dogma - Mallevs Maleficarvm 

14 - Nevoa - Towards Belief

15 - Armnatt - Dense Fog