(written by Islander)

In an age when online porn is as easy to get as water from a faucet, the Silesian band Sexmag‘s name seems like an anachronism. Does anyone buy sex mag’s any more? Does anyone still publish them? Maybe there’s a museum for them somewhere?

It’s fair to say that the band’s music is also a throwback, in the sense that it summons the old spirits of bands like Sarcófago, Tormentor, Bulldozer, and Destruction. But don’t think listening is like wandering through a heavy metal museum or a museum of quaint publications with pinups in the centerfold. It’s more like being thrown into a filthy, blood-spraying orgy where the degenerate participants are vicious devils and demonesses.

But as you’ll already know if you threw yourselves into Sexmag‘s 2021 EP Sex Metal (which we gleefully premiered here), there’s more going on in their music than lewd and crude pentagram-draped romps, and that’s even more evident on their new album Sexorcyzm, whose title track we’re premiering through a video today.

And by the way, though we’re having fun with their name, they reportedly chose it in honor of an important old Polish heavy metal band named Kat (the Polish word for “executioner”), who recorded a song named… “Mag-Sex”. And based on that song’s lyrics, which tell a tale of a man raised by witches, its title might be better understood as… “magic sex“. Continue reading »