(written by Islander)
Take it from someone who’s been struggling to write about music for 16+ years: It’s not easy to capture sounds in words, or to represent how they alter feelings and inspire the imagination without running afoul of triteness or tedium. A humbling challenge to be sure, but even more humbling when we run across the prose of the honcho behind Sentient Ruin Laboratories. Here, as a pertinent example, is an excerpt from the label’s linguistic preview of an album that’s the source of a song we’re about to premiere:
Chilean bestial goregrind terror-cult Mors.Void.Discipline emerge from the bottomless dungeons of South America’s extreme metal underground with their debut full-length monstrosity Txketh)ëké, a twenty-minute obfuscation of terror-spawning bestial war metal destruction swathed in the flesh-eating violence and maggot-infested putridity of 90’s goregrind.
Cryptic and malignant beyond thresholds comprehensible to man, Txketh)ëké projects forth a cancerous aural perversion in which the war-mongering assaults of Blasphemy collide with early Carcass’ mangled and deconstructed sonic butchery. Its astonishing hideousness and violence are not only shaped by its unequivocal descendancy, but further complexed by the peculiar antediluvian and occult aura historically permeating Chile’s underground scene, as well as by the band’s enigmatic inner workings and imagination harvesting perversions from beyond the reach of sanity.
You see?
A wiser person would leave things there and immediately insert the song stream, but the wiser writers here are otherwise occupied, so on we go!
The name of the song we’re premiering is “Sanguinem In Anum Caprae Putrescentis Eiaculans“. In case your Latin is rusty, Google Translate tells us it means “Ejaculating Blood Into the Anus of a Rotting Goat”. What a lovely image! The music is equally lovely.
The riffing manifests as dense tidal flows of churning abrasion, rising in cruelty and falling in misery, casting a dark and suffocating pall on listeners. From within those grinding and heaving masses of sound, a second guitar maniacally flickers as a bass humongously moans and the drums shift from steady beats to furious fills.
The riffing accelerates into a boiling acid-strength frenzy and the drums erupt in a blasting tirade, as accompaniment to the advent of utterly macabre, grotesquely distorted gutturals that gurgle, croak, and snarl. The band also inflict brutish pile-driver blows within the sizzling miasma of backing sound, and they unleash episodes of freakishly swarming mayhem.
It’s all inhuman, it’s all unhinged, it’s all hideously toxic. And it’s exhilarating, muscle-moving, well-structured and perversely addictive.
TRACK LISTING:
1. Morde Faciem Cherubi
2. Bestialitas In Conventu Et Viscerum Expositio
3. Impurae Cantus Cruentarum Portalis
4. Calix Bilis Benedictae
5. Sanguinem In Anum Caprae Putrescentis Eiaculans
6. Reliquiae Humanae Ad Caerimoniam Ultimam
7. Decapitatio Rabini Et Mutilatio Genitalium
8. Cultus Abominationum Nigrarum
In case you’re wondering about the name of the album (and of course you are), Sentient Ruin explains: “The album’s title is an anagram of words related to Solomon’s demonology and multicultural esoteric warfare, and the band’s concept and lyrics metastasize within the terrorscape as a deranged worship of evil reclaiming sacrifice through the destruction of human anatomy.”
Sentient Ruin will release Txketh)ëké on March 13th, on LP vinyl, cassette tape, CD, and digital formats. Pre-orders are available now:
PRE-ORDER:
https://sentientruin.bandcamp.com/album/txketh-k
http://sentientruin.com/releases
MORS.VOID.DISCIPLINE:
https://morsvoiddiscipline.bandcamp.com