This stormy and wrathful Black and Death Metal duo reveals themselves as a banner as well as an alliance with their long-awaited, scathing third album.

Hailing from the frontiers of southern Chile in a bloody transfixion that decomposes and darkens the veins of everything created under the stormy and wrathful Black and Death Metal that’s been inoculated all along the last decade, Temuco, Araucania-based entity Cenotafio reveals themselves as a banner as well as an alliance with their long-awaited third album, titled La Escisión Acausal: Por La Vía Inversa Hacia La Descarnación, English for “the acausal cleavage: through the inverted way to the fleshing out,” the follow-up to their 2019 sophomore opus Larvae Tedeum Teratos. Across the 43-minute album’s six tracks, the duo formed of Daniel Hermosilla on vocals, guitars and bass, and Patricio Kusnir on drums and vocals lays bare a supremely sepulchral landscape where genre delineations become irrelevant. Black Metal devours Death Metal, then vice-versa, all while a roiling undercurrent of Doom Metal provides the rhythmic sturm under drang that’s seemingly scattershot but eventually reveals its restless genius.

Atrabilis Taenia Solivm carries a cadaverous name for a song, starting in the most Blackened Doom manner imaginable before exploding into a chaotic blend of Black Metal led by their demonic vociferations and the ruthless drums by Patricio. Speaking of sluggish doom, I love it when a band that’s known for long, doomed songs decides to blast our faces with a sharp and shorter-than-usual tune like Osario, with Daniel delivering an overdose of insanity through his riffs and bass lines, resulting in a song not recommended for the faint at heart. And Nigredo Transfixión keeps the atmosphere as grim and unfriendly as possible, another caustic fusion of Black, Death and Doom Metal by the duo where Patricio steals the spotlight with his demented blast beats.

They continue to darken our minds and thoughts with the bludgeoning Acausal Escisión, presenting a caustic, visceral slab of Blackened Death Metal; and it’s time to enter a pit of deadly snakes in Viperidarium, offering our putrid ears a massive wall of sounds which end up boosting their Mephistophelian guttural to a whole new level of obscurity. And as the icing on their dark cake, we have Orbis Coagula, a multi-layered, evil, Stygian and brutal aria presenting the darkest elements of Doom Metal intertwined with the most vicious Black and Death Metal sounds, with Daniel ‘s riffs sounding absolutely disturbing and evil until the song’s climatic, vile end, sending shivers down our spines.

After immersing yourself into the dark and doomed waters of La Escisión Acausal: Por La Vía Inversa Hacia La Descarnación, you’ll quickly notice the wait for a new album by Chile’s monster Cenotafio was absolutely worth it. Buried under miles of Blackened Death and Doom Metal ash, the duo sounds on fire from start to finish, and if you want to show them your utmost support you can find those talented musicians on Facebook and on Instagram, stream their caustic music on Spotify, and purchase their sulfurous new album from their own BandCamp or from the Demoniac Productions’ BandCamp. Cenotafio are among us to spread sheer obscurity, blackening their Death Metal sounds while also turning their Black Metal vein even deadlier, with La Escisión Acausal: Por La Vía Inversa Hacia La Descarnación embracing us all in absolute darkness.

Best moments of the album: Osario and Orbis Coagula.

Worst moments of the album: None.

Released in 2026 Demoniac Productions

Track listing
1. Atrabilis Taenia Solivm 8:47
2. Osario 5:11
3. Nigredo Transfixión 7:30
4. Acausal Escisión 5:58
5. Viperidarium 5:13
6. Orbis Coagula 10:17

Band members
Daniel Hermosilla – vocals, guitars, bass
Patricio Kusnir – drums, vocals

Guest musician
Jimmy Henríquez – bass (live)