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Jagged
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 23, 2018 5:15 am 
 

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ATAVISMA - The Chthonic Rituals CD [MEMENTO-LXXIII]
The highly anticipated debut full-length of this French band. Hailing from the new breed of exquisite French Death Metal darkness, Atavisma formed in late 2013 and promptly set to work perfecting their assiduously doomed-out craft. Founders G. (guitar) and L. (vocals) wanted to create a band devoted to old school Death Metal, and with the addition of C. (drums) and W. (bass) shortly thereafter, the quartet's compositions progressively shifted towards a Death/Doom Metal approach with a penchant for lyrics that mainly deal with the relationship between man and nature, ancient cultures and spirituality. Wisely prizing quality over quantity, Atavisma's sparse discography comprises a debut single in 2014 and a four-song demo that same year, a split 7" with Maur in 2015, and a two-song 7" last year. During all this, the band took their craft to the stage alongside such bands as Archgoat, Merrimack, Inferno, Ritualization, Ataraxie, Mercyless and Mourning Dawn, and as recently as February/March 2017, they embarked on their first French tour and supported Blood Incantation and Cruciamentum during their European tour. With their chops finely honed in the studio and on the live front, at last comes the time for Atavisma's momentous debut album: "The Chthonic Rituals". The album's title not-so-subtly serves as a clarion call for the quartet's aesthetic to date, and where that aesthetic can fully go when given a long-form format. Ridiculously filthy and yet exuding a startling sense of clarity, Atavisma here conjure a forever-roiling, fatally-swirling whirlpool of murk and total 'n' utter darkness. Riffs are doled out like sick 'n' slithering creatures that soon overtake their master, devouring both body and soul with salacious delight. Thus armed, compositions take on obscene forms, utilizing both über-heavy hooks and labyrinthine detours, hackle-raising tension and hypnotic quasi-melodicism, winding the listener down caverns most foul, warping any sense of sanity. And although the band's attack has gotten progressively doomier, there's never a moment of inertia; all is forward momentum, and it all leads toward an abyss with literally no end. The 11-minute closer says everything in its title: "A Subterranean Life". Totality is reached in both cover art (courtesy of E. Muskie), mixing by Johan Bijaoui at Mannaz Records, and mastering by the elite Javier Felez at Moontower Studios. Maniacs of Incantation, Cianide, Grave, Disma, Winter, Funebre, Encoffination and classic Convulse, hereby meet your new masters: Atavisma. Let The Chthonic Rituals begin...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GdVexGvz_k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_N5QjWl638
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsJ7GawxOAc

DAMNATORY - The Complete Disgoregraphy 1991-2003 CD [MEMENTO-LXXIV]
A CD that compiles the body of work of this old, obscure Swiss Death Metal band. "The Complete Disgoregraphy 1991-2003" features the "The Persistence of Archaic Dogma..." demo (1991), the "In My Darkest Vision..." promo (1991), the "Hybridized Deformity" EP (1992), the "Docta Ignorantia" EP (1993) and the "The Second Side of the Coin..." demo (2003). To depict Damnatory's own brand of Death Metal ain't no simple task, for it encapsulates a number of different features and influences, namely the grinding brutality of early Pungent Stench, the fondness for intricacy of early Disharmonic Orchestra, the rawness and the filth of early Grave, and the uncanniness of Mangled Torsos, molding a Death Metal mongrel that bounces back and forth from sick tremolo-picked riffs, to thrashy headbanging sections and to slow, doomish passages. The casket has yet again been opened for all zealots of the early 90's undeground Death Metal to inhale the odor of the lifeless ones! All songs restored and mastered by Patrick Engel (of Hatespawn fame) at Temple of Disharmony, Germany. Artwork and layout by Marco Gemmet, the band's vocalist on the 1992 EP and the 2003 demo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LarmhmYOUCw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR67oDcw2ZM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciaZUM29Iek


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CARDIAC ARREST - A Parallel Dimension of Despair CD [MEMENTO-LXX]
Death Metal from U.S.A. 6th full-length album.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChHTHj ... 9UqrABF7WA

PETRIFICATION - Hollow of the Void CD [MEMENTO-LXXI]
Death Metal from U.S.A. Debut full-length album.
https://sentientruin.bandcamp.com/album ... f-the-void

SHRINE OF THE SERPENT - Entropic Disillusion CD [MEMENTO-LXXII]
Death/Doom Metal from U.S.A. Debut full-length album.
https://shrineoftheserpent.bandcamp.com ... isillusion
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 30, 2018 5:09 am 
 

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2018 12:56 pm 
 

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