AN NCS PREMIERE: IN CORPORE MORTIS — “IGNEOUS CURRENTS PERVADE THE AETHYR”

(written by Islander)

Twelve years after their full-length debut Neverwards, and five years following their Eons of Attrition EP, the Italian black metal band In Corpore Mortis are returning with a second album named Umbræ Ignis that’s now scheduled for co-release next month by Satanath Records and Wine and Fog Productions.

One song from the new album has already debuted, and today we’re premiering a second one. Both of them are representations of supernatural evil, both of them insidiously infectious as well as frightening, and they both reveal other facets of chilling mood, including shades of ghostly gothic horror.

The first preview song from the album was, “Defiling Life’s Sacrality“. It throbs with a heavy pulse, and the low-toned, fuzz-drenched riffing generates dense swarms of sinister menace, rising and falling like apparitions of evil, while fiendish snarls and caustic screams eject the words.

An ecstatically swirling guitar, piercing in tone, provides a bridge, and the band then surge ahead, commanded by berserk screams, with drums furiously hammering and those evil riffs becoming both more frantic and more coldly ominous.

Ethereal keys and a frantically spiraling lead guitar add elements of gothic horror to the affair, leading toward a finale of imperious malevolence capped by a mad scream.

And now we’ll turn to the song we’re premiering today, “Igneous Currents Pervade the Aethyr“. This one extends to nearly nine minutes, giving In Corpore Mortis more room to create skin-freezing and blood-congealing horrors. The vocals are again terrorizing, like fiends in bedlam, and the thick, vibrating riffing rapidly undulates around battering percussion in a way that channels diabolical exuberance.

The music reveals a blazing and hungering pulse, rising even higher in its ascending and descending course and driving the jubilantly wicked riffage even deeper into the listener’s head.

When the band change course about halfway through, a trilling lead guitar manifests along with an elegant piano melody, and together they create a different shade of darkness in the music — more bereaved, more haunting — and the riffing begins to sound dismal too.

The pacing slows to a stagger, paving the way for a wailing guitar solo that pulls the mood even deeper into sorrow. But the song’s evil won’t be subdued for long, and both the drums and the bass (very nimble in its nuances) drive a surging pulse again. The band bring it all together — including layered guitars and keys, and lycanthropic and vampiric vocals — to create a closing crescendo of madness.

IN CORPORE MORTIS is:
Jörmundgand – vocals, bass, synth; rhythm/harmony guitars (4); acoustic guitar (8)
König Asket – lead/rhythm guitars; acoustic guitar (4)
Agaliarept – lead/rhythm guitars
Pandæmonium – drums/percussion

Satanath and Wine and Fog will release the album on September 27th, both digitally and in a jewel-box CD edition with a 12-page booklet (limited to 300 copies).

PRE-ORDER INFO:
https://satanath.bandcamp.com/album/sat403-in-corpore-mortis-umbr-ignis-2025
https://www.instagram.com/wine.and.fog/

IN CORPORE MORTIS:
https://incorporemortis1.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/incorporemortis
https://www.instagram.com/incorporemortis_blackmetal