(written by Islander)
More than 20 years ago Sadael began life in Yerevan, Armenia as the death/doom metal brainchild of multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Vahe Soghomonyan. Since then Sadael has amassed an extensive discography that includes 20 albums and many shorter releases.
Vahe now lives in Austria, but the changes in Sadael’s life include more than the geographic shift. For Sadael’s newest album, Paralytic Thrall, he recruited experienced U.S. vocalist Andrew Gossard (Nekrofade, Putrefaction), changed the logo, and created a conceptual underpinning for the album as well as alterations in musical style.
The new album is now set for release on December 28th by a trio of labels, and they preview the album this way:
The band merges elements of brutal death metal, slam, and technical death metal into a sound defined by dense riffs, suffocating intensity, and a dark, immersive atmosphere….
Across nine interconnected chapters, Paralytic Thrall dissects annihilation from every angle — the decay of flesh, erasure of identity, collapse of reason, nightmare demons that feed on terror, a world devoured by fire and hunger, and finally, transcendence through arcane knowledge as the flesh is abandoned and consciousness becomes the apocrypha itself.
What we have for you today, as a further preview of the new album, is the premiere of its second single, “Erasure“.
Musically, “Erasure” initially comes across like a humongous hulking beast, lumbering forward in a gruesome stomp and gurgling from its gut. Its movements slowly become more feverish and ravenous, its growls more inflamed. The riffing begins to maniacally writhe; the drums surge in bursts; and with starts and stops, the song also inflicts brutalizing slams.
Sadael also begin to shroud their beastly creation with eerily swirling sounds in the music’s upper reaches, and they bring in an exotic guitar solo that adds to the unearthly atmosphere shrouding the monstrosity. But they don’t let us forget the pulverizing beast at the song’s core, and rapidly darting fretwork coupled with battering percussion near the song’s end underscores how dangerous it is.
Paralytic Thrall is a co-release among official distributor Satanath Records (Georgia), Holy Mountains Music (Armenia), and More Hate Productions (Russia). They are offering it in a jewel-box CD edition with a 6-page booklet (500 limited copies), as well as digitally. It comes recommended for fans of Katalepsy, Abominable Putridity, and Behemoth.
For more info, check the links below — and also give a listen to the album’s first single, “Absolute Silence“.
SATANATH:
http://satanath.com/distro
https://satanath.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/satanath
HOLY MOUNTAINS:
https://holymountains.bandcamp.com/album/hm003-sadael-paralytic-thrall-2025
https://www.instagram.com/holymountainsmusic
MORE HATE:
http://www.morehate.com
SADAEL:
https://www.facebook.com/sadaeldoom/
https://sadaelofficial.bandcamp.com/