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IRKALLIAN ORACLE Grave Ekstasis LP

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(Nuclear War Now! Productions)
*** This is a new and unplayed item, direct from the CRUCIAL BLAST shop. ***


DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
  Ensconced in evocative symbolist-influenced artwork (some of the most impressive I've seen on a recent death metal album) and surrealistic lyrical images, Irkallian Oracle's debut tape Grave Ekstasis has now been reissued on CD and LP, bringing their sick, discordant death metal to an expanded audience via Nuclear War Now. This Swedish band traffics in a similar plasmic blackness as groups like Mitochondrion and Abyssal, but they bring their own fecund ritualistic aesthetic to this sound, producing an impressive debut of surrealist death metal.
   As ceremonial drums pound out a slow death-march somewhere in the depths, and howling winds race across the horizon, "Ekstasis" slowly surges out of the blackness, unleashing its churning sludgy riffage and crushing doom-laden crawl. This opening track is sickeningly heavy, the diabolic, delay-drenched howls of the vocalist adding to the already hallucinatory feel of Irkallian Oracle's convulsive blackened death metal. The almost tribal feel of the drumming on this album gives it a unique touch as well, elevating this beyond the level of just another murky Incantation clone. On tracks like "Iconoclasm" and "Dispersion ", however, the band erupts into a hurricane of wind-tunnel blastbeats and deformed atonal riffage, lurching violently between these stretches of high-speed tornadic mayhem and the moments when everything bottoms out into that monstrous double-bass driven sludginess and those onslaughts of turbid tribal rhythms. The guitars are massive and mold-encrusted, splintering into harsh dissonant riffs that can occasionally have a whiff of an alien, almost Obscura-esque quality. The rest of the album delivers more of that chaotic black blast and discordant doomed crush, and closes with the sprawling thirteen minute horror of "Absentia Animi", which reveals some of the band's more experimental tendencies in regards to crafting their suffocating, nightmarish soundscapes. At first, the song discharges some of the album's heaviest slow-motion riffage as the band drops into a lurching, spasmodic dirge, a massive rumbling slow-motion deathmarch that gradually weaves into hypnotic repetition. As the track continues to expand, however, eerie high drones begin to streak above the misshapen black sludge, the sound of a Buddhist prayer bowl singing it's resonant tones overhead. Swells of rumbling low-end noise begin to appear, crashing across that now trancelike riff, and the drums slip into powerful, almost martial rhythms for awhile, until it leads this into the final stretch of crushing discordant death metal.
  Grave Ekstasis delivers a foul, heady blast of discordant death metal steeped in pungent erotic imagery and an atmosphere of enigmatic occult philosophy, and stands out amid a growing plague of sound -alikes and unimaginative Incanto-clones; this is very much worth checking out if you've been digging the other, similarly surreal death metal albums that have been recently surfacing on this label. The CD edition comes in slipcase packaging for the first edition of the disc.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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