(written by Islander)
Denver-based Crypts of Golgotha began to form up in late 2022 when the band-members were still teenagers. By their own admission, at that time they were “without an inherent vision.” Initially they were drawn to old school death metal, but began to incorporate influences from other death-metal off-shoots, including brutal death metal and deathcore.
Their first releases were EPs — including Paths Against Divinity (released in October 2024), and The Cavernous Crypts (a March 2025 split with Cavernous) — but now they have recorded a debut album with a revised lineup. Titled Disembodied In the Arms of Perdition, it’s set for release on June 26th through DSFP Records and Return Trip Records.
One single from the album (“Elegy for a Forgotten God“) premiered last month at New Noise, and today we’re bringing you a second one, “Order to Comply“, which is the track that closes out the album.
Although the band members might no longer be teenagers, they’re obviously still young. But as you’re about to find out (if you don’t already know), they’ve got a mature grasp of songwriting dynamism — and a firm hold on musical weapons of bludgeoning brutality and eviscerating madness.
In this new song’s overture the drums slug hard enough to bring down walls, the bass booms like detonating explosives, and the abrasive riffing both viciously surges and seems to wail in pain.
After a quick pause the drums start popping like rhythmic gunshots, and the riffing writhes and squeals while continuing to jab and roar — and speaking of roars, the guttural vocals are monstrous. But the band also continually change tempos, drum patterns, and the methods of their slashing and mauling fretwork, and those roars explode into screams.
The music convulses and contorts, seems dismal and cold but also hulking and enraged, and leads to a bridge-collapsing breakdown… which continues to break down, and to become thuggishly destructive. In the way the song ends, you get the feeling that not much has survived the assault.
In the seven songs that precede this one Crypts of Golgotha’s rhythm section continue to inflict brutalizing (and muscle-moving) punishment, but also to demonstrate notable dexterity and nuance, and the riffing continues to both ravage and warp in ways that channel an array of disturbing and even unearthly sensations, while the two-tone vocals continue creating monstrous visions.
As in the song we’ve just premiered, the others also incorporate lots of tempo changes, as well as bouts of brutal death metal punishment, fleet-fingered fretwork spasms, and moods both gruesome and diabolically ecstatic. The music veers from the primitive to the elaborate, from episodes that would undoubtedly generate circle-pit mayhem to others that are head-spinning.
The music is sharply executed and evenly mixed, but still very damned heavy. It calls to mind memories of Suffocation and Dying Fetus, as well as Defeated Sanity and early Job For A Cowboy.
CRYPTS OF GOLGOTHA are:
Gabriel Aragon – Guitar/Vocals
Dominik Dworak – guitars
Joaquin Aragon – Drums
Cooper Jones – Bass
Disembodied In the Arms of Perdition was written, recorded, and performed by the band. It was mixed and mastered by Austin Minney at All Aces Studios, and it features cover art and logo by Liam Day (@harass_arachnids).
The album will be released on CD by DSFP Records and on vinyl by Return Trip Records. It’s available for pre-order now:
PRE-ORDER:
https://dsfprecords.com/products/crypts-of-golgotha-disembodied-in-the-arms-of-perdition-cd
https://www.returntriprecords.com/product/crypts-of-goglothia-disembodied-in-the-arms-of-predition
CRYPTS OF GOLGOTHA:
https://linktr.ee/cryptsofgolgotha