(written by Islander)

Gaze upon the daunting cover art above for Locus Damnatorum, the debut album from the diabolical Slovakian band Goholor — whose name is an Enochian word for “ascend” and begin to imagine what primordial terrors it holds in store. The album follows by a decade the band’s debut EP In Saeculis Obscuris, and it seized the attention of the esteemed Personal Records, which will release the album on May 8th.

On behalf of the label, the press materials describe the album’s music by invoking such names as Unanimated, Necrophobic, Sacramentum, Gates of Ishtar, and Sweden’s Sacrilege, and more general references to “black/death’s late ’90s heyday”. They also divulge that the album’s themes “focus on the dark and demonic side of society, such as hypocrisy, perversion, insensitivity, and obsession with religion.”

To delve further into the album’s marauding madness, what we have for you today is the premiere of its second single, “Divine Blood Invocation“. Continue reading »