New mini-album, “Exxekratus”, out on February 12th!
Since their formation in 2009, Germany’s DYSANGELIUM have patiently unveiled their vision – each recording a tactical strike, a treatise building upon the last but always imparting ancient wisdoms. Indeed, the Germans’ sound throughout those many years has reinvigorated and refined the orthodox black metal idiom that took the underground by storm in the mid-2000s. But far from being blinkered to the past or some hackneyed nostalgia act, DYSANGELIUM fortify the boundless abyss of arcane understanding central to true, classics-minded BLACK METAL.
And while they’ve been quiet on the recording front since 2019’s monumental Death Leading full-length, DYSANGELIUM at last stir the cauldron of activity with a new mini-album titled Exxekratus. Totaling four tracks across 27 minutes, Exxekratus carries forward the plausible maturity found on that album predecessor: stark, strident, cleaner in tone but dirtier in content. With the same lineup in place, their iron-clad, surging-and-striking sound is largely unchanged, but for the increased clarity found here on Exxekratus comes an even-more-urgent aspect, their ceremonial melodicism instilling a palpitating tension that makes the three brand-new songs here especially haunting. Underlining the ties to their proud past is the muscular closer “Delirious Transcendence,” which was recorded in 2014 for Thánatos Áskesis but was cut due to that album’s vinyl length. And Exxekratus is but a mere foretaste for DYSANGELIUM’s forthcoming third album, which will spread its wings of doom soon enough…
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