(written by Islander)
Ancestros is a new Seville-based collective of musicians, writers, and visual artists, whose musical performers have been associated with such bands as Orthodox, Pylar, and Voidescent (among others). The name of their decidedly unorthodox debut album is Blasfemia Austral, and it’s set for release on November 16th by Cavsas, a division of Cyclic Law.
The label’s description of the music makes comparative references to the likes of Portal, Deathspell Omega, Teitanblood, Oranssi Pazuzu, Reverorum ib Malacht, Hellhammer, and Bathory, which should generate intrigue.
One song from the album surfaced earlier this month, and today we’re premiering a video for a second one — “Icognitum Hactenus“. But before we get to them, we want to share a more complete description of the album’s thematic conception drawn from the press materials circulated on behalf of the Cavsas label, because it is a further source of intrigue: Continue reading »
