(written by Islander)
As you can see, we’re about to premiere a song named “Tetemek tava… lidércek tánca” by the Hungarian band Rothadás. It’s from their forthcoming second album Töviskert… a kísértés örök érzete… lidércharang, which will be jointly released by Me Saco Un Ono Records and Pulvesized Records on March 21st.
According to an online translation tool, the title of the song means “Lake of corpses… dance of ghosts” in English, and the album title translates to “Thorn Garden… the eternal feeling of temptation… a ghostly melody.” Those words point the way to the experience of the music, but we ought to quote from the press materials for the album, because they eloquently point the way in greater detail:
Immediately tendrils of decrepit and morbid death metal will pull you into the abyssal atmospherics the band so vibrantly conjure from the depths. Sepulchral guitars and reverberate drums contort into a monstrosity of festering evil while the macabre vocals permeate and resonate through the crushing mix. Everything constantly moving, shifting, into darker realms; you will be constantly thrown into new realms of horror with each passing moment. From their blasting cacophonies of rotten splendour to the eldritch doom that fills the air with anguish, each second has purpose in painting a picture of terror and charnel mystery in this superb follow-up to their impressive debut album.
And now let’s get to the song, which proves to be foul, ferocious, and fraught with suffering — a bone-fracturing, muscle-convulsing piece of thuggery, a deranged frenzy, and a slow and shadowed stagger through abysmal miseries.
Armed with guitars tuned to the tone of toxicity and rhythmic implements that sound capable of punching through concrete walls, Rothadás quickly create an experience that’s primal, primitive, and monstrous. The drums boom and rumble, the riffing miserably whines and brutishly jolts, and the vocals growl the words from cold chasmic depths.
As the slugfest continues, the whine of the riffing grows more feverish, more deranged, and the drums more vividly assaulting. The band reach a zenith of madness through the eruption of blast-beats and a boiling and writhing tremolo’d whir. The drummer also inflicts knee-capping strikes while the bass mimics a jackhammer and the guitar sounds like a carnivorous insect swarm.
The comes the doom. The rhythmic punch, still megaton heavy, converts into a dying stomp. The guitars wail and moan, creating a harmony of agony. Soon enough, the band revert to their violent spasms, and back and forth they go — dismally lurching and violently convulsing, before uniting the phases in a massive crushfest laced with poisonous riffage and ghastly howls, like the expulsions of a furious ghost.
Me Saco Un Ojo will release the new album in a vinyl LP edition (classic black and dark blue), while Pulverised will handle the CD edition. For more info and to order, check the links below, and also lend your ears to the first song released from the record, “Vértükör“.
https://mesacounojo.bandcamp.com/album/t-viskert-a-k-s-rt-s-r-k-rzete-lid-rcharang
https://store.pulverised.net/
https://rothadasdeathdoom.bandcamp.com