AN NCS PREMIERE: CRYPTORIUM — “REVOLTING OBSESSION”

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Sep 142026
 

(written by Islander)

It’s so nice to begin a new week at NCS by installing a piece of hellishly eye-catching cover art at the top of the page. We have an intricate layout of skull-headed abominations that seem to be feeding on their own intestines, plus spikes, tendrils, and a ghastly glowing light that signifies worse things might lie ahead. We bow in the direction of the artist Slimeweaver for creating such a ghoulish delight.

Even better, the album that the artwork adorns is itself a ghoulish delight, one that will hold special appeal for fans of deathless Swedish death metal, the cemetery spawn of such bands as Dismember, Entombed, Carnage, and Grave. That album will lead listeners Through The Bowels Of Ceaseless Dissonance, and our fiendish guides are the Swedish band Cryptorium.

What we have for you today is the premiere of a song called “Revolting Obsession” in advance of the October 30 album release by Transcending Obscurity Records. Continue reading »

AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: CRYPTORIUM — “HORRID EXULTATION”

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Oct 292024
 

(written by Islander)

Let’s dive right into the video and song we’re premiering today from Descent Into Lunacy, the debut album of the Swedish death metal band Cryptorium, and then come back to fill in the details.

“Horrid Exultation” is the name of the song, and that title is the epitome of truth-in-advertising: There is not one thing about the song that’s sane, not one thing amenable to reason or mercy, only the kind of demented and frenzied viciousness that spawns ghastly visions — and a finale that brings horrors of a different kind. Continue reading »