(written by Islander)
The Italian black/death marauders Ignobleth admit that their first EP, Voidspawn Sacrifice, could be likened to “Blasphemy and Archgoat worship”. But their sound and style have morphed since then, and the music on their forthcoming debut album Manor of Primitive Anticreation is a much more twisted, unpredictable, and unsettling beast — still capable of reaching ruinous heights of war metal bestiality but also transporting listeners deep into mind-warping and blood-freezing nightmare realms.
As a sign of these changes we have for you today the premiere of the debut album’s second single, “Proseylte Pig I“, in advance of the album’s release by Caligari Records on April 17th.
In this song, as almost everywhere else on the album, Ignobleth constantly shove listeners off-balance with sudden changes in tempo and in the methods and magnitudes of violence, while never letting us forget that this fast-turning labyrinth is located in some hideously macabre dimension far away (either far above or far below) the world we think we know.
The song immediately raises goosebumps with a shrill siren-whine soaring above dismal low frequencies that massively groan and crashing percussive detonations. With an abyssal growl signaling a change, the drums shift into a skipping beat, the gnarled riffing miserably churns, and those ethereal siren-like tones continue to pierce through.
The drums begin heavily rumbling and pounding, and then finally unleash fury as the dense concatenation of other instruments becomes catastrophic, rising like the elevating of madness. A monstrous throat roars the words from cavernous depths, and the pacing and drum patterns continue mutating within the hideous miasma of seething and slaughtering riffage, still overlaid with spectral and searing radiations in the music’s far upper reaches.
The music staggers and stomps, and glitchy electronics join in — a short prelude to both a maelstrom of even more excessive violence and a surprising drum-kit gallop. The monstrous vocals seem to bellow a chant; a guitar vividly quivers and screams; and the vocals scream too as the music erupts in yet another convulsion of eye-popping violence and insanity — punctuated by massive crashes and ending with a short episode of chilling ambience (which on the album will carry listeners into the second Part of this two-part nightmare).
To provide a few more insights into what the album delivers, we’ll share these words from PR materials now circulating:
The song structuring may be seem scattershot at first or at least bewildering, but there’s order in chaos within this Manor of Primitive Anticreation: constant changes in pace and atmosphere, with frequent variations in BPM, different sound effects to embellish the tracks, vocal styles ranging from cavernous growls to high screams of anguish, more distorted bass, longer songs, ambient interludes (including a collaboration with Gnaw Their Tongues), occasional guitar harmonies, and plenty more are all threaded together with a delirious sort of magick. Which is all informed by an outlook and lyrics based on Kabbalistic magick, Sumerian mythology, Egyptian mysteries, and Lovecraftian abominations, altogether elevated from their old works….
Manor of Primitive Anticreation was recorded, mixed, and mastered at Macabro Bunker, and it features striking cover art by Bryan Maita. Caligari will release the album on limited-edition CD, limited-edition cassette tape, and digital formats. Visit the locations linked below for pre-orders and more info, and then also lend you mangled ears to the album’s first single, the aptly named “Warped Abyssal Architectures“.
PRE-ORDER:
https://caligarirecords.bandcamp.com/album/manor-of-primitive-anticreation
IGNOBLETH:
https://www.instagram.com/ignoblethband
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552939026856