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Album Review – Cenotafio / La Escisión Acausal: Por La Vía Inversa Hacia La Descarnación (2026)

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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)

Album Review – Thaumaturgy / Pestilential Hymns (2025)

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This cryptic American beast returns from the underworld with its sophomore opus, offering more of its vicious blend of dark, doom-laden, chasmic, and cavernous Death Metal.

Spawned in the American Midwest by an enigmatic musician that goes under the alias KT, driven by the urge to play a vicious blend of dark, doom-laden, chasmic, and cavernous Death Metal, taking influence from a wide range of outsider music, Kansas, United States-based Blackened Death/Doom Metal outfit Thaumaturgy continues to push the boundaries beyond the genre’s forerunners in order to invoke contemplation upon the super-mundane realms that their name implies in their new offering titled Pestilential Hymns, following up on his 2023 vile debut  Tenebrous Oblations. Now a power-trio after the addition of TG and DS to their ranks, the band has morphed into an entity whose new musical offering is crammed with furious, ripping riffs, contrasted by crushing, echoing doom passages, as well as a surprising element of dark melody, all embraced by the suitably ancient cover artwork by Daniel Hermosilla of Nox Fragor Art.

Devilish, visceral riffs ignite the band’s black mass in Neuroticism Triumphant, with KT’s harsh vociferations adding sheer insanity to their already demented sound, blasting our minds and faces mercilessly. The Oncologist’s Hymn carries a weird name for a song, but as the music is what really matters we face an avalanche of primeval Death Metal by the trio, followed by The Shadow Approaches, bringing forward elements from the most hellish form of Doom Metal while still being deeply rooted in Death Metal. Needless to say, KT yet again sounds inhumane on vocals. And Plague Ritual sounds absolutely dissonant, evil and unrelenting from start to finish, with its cryptic, vile vocals, riffs and drums penetrating deep inside our minds while also showcasing haunting background keys and melodies.

Then the guttural by KT gets even deeper and more bestial in Awaken Ares, supported by an overdose of harsh riffage, rumbling bass lines and nonstop beats and fills, or in other words, it’s an ode to the vilest form of Death Metal. It’s pedal to the metal in the sonic attack entitled Entropic Hegemony, with its riffs reeking of Black Metal, therefore adding even more obscurity to the band’s core sound; whereas a melodic yet evil guitar kicks off the Doom Metal-infused interlude An Ignominious End, a bit too long for my taste, warming us up for Forced March, ending the album majestically, a destructive force of Death Metal spearheaded by KT’s grim vocal lines while the music remain as heavy and obscure as possible before all fades into oblivion.

To qualify Thaumaturgy as “blackened” would not be unfair, but Pestilential Hymns as a (w)hole wholly feels like a Death Metal record, just one on the fringes of unorthodoxy and angularity, unbound but never belabored. Still, despite this forward-thinking approach, the band retains a sense of the ancient, of elder days in the underground when diabolism truly began to bloom in Death Metal, and you can join such an uncanny creature form the abyss in its quest for extreme music on Instagram, stream the band’s scorching, visceral creations on Spotify, and of course put your putrid hands on Pestilential Hymns from the band’s own BandCamp, as well as from Memento Mori. Pestilential Hymns brings to our avid ears first-class music to mangle our minds, and you better be warned that once you begin your descent into the underworld together with those evil creatures, there’s no turning back.

Best moments of the album: Neuroticism Triumphant, Plague Ritual and Forced March.

Worst moments of the album: An Ignominious End.

Released in 2025 Memento Mori

Track listing
1. Neuroticism Triumphant 5:20
2. The Oncologist’s Hymn 5:52
3. The Shadow Approaches 5:32
4. Plague Ritual 6:34
5. Awaken Ares 6:26
6. Entropic Hegemony 6:05
7. An Ignominious End 2:28
8. Forced March 7:23

Band members
KT – vocals, guitars, bass
TG – guitars
DS – drums

Album Review – Vøidwomb / Spiritual Apotheosis (2024)

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Deliver your soul to this nine-track immersive Black Metal experience that will guide you through the inherent utter darkness of human condition and the cathartic search for enlightenment.

“SIC ITUR AD ASTRA”

On the shores of Portugal, deep in the north of the country, a creature lurks in the shadow. Forged in the fires of Barroselas, Viana do Castelo in 2019, Vøidwomb are a Black Metal quintet who’s back to the light after three years in the shades with their first full-length opus, titled Spiritual Apotheosis. Mixed and mastered by Diogo Santana at Noise Portrait Studios, with a cover painting by prolific painter Daniel Hermosilla of Nox Fragor Art, the follow-up to their debut EP Altars of Cosmic Devotion is a record about understanding darkness and sacrificing self to reach transcendence, a nine-track immersive Black Metal experience that will guide you through the inherent utter darkness of human condition and the cathartic search for enlightenment, all carefully brought into being by vocalist M.S.Vøid, guitarists Lord and Fractal, bassist F.S.Void, and drummer Noctvs.

Ominous and grim from the very first second, the extended intro Exordium will darken the skies before the band begins their vile black mass in Metempsychosis, featuring guest vocals by Diogo Santana (Fustilarian, Necrobode, Raw Decimating Brutality), offering us all five minutes of absolute darkness and hatred spearheaded by the Black Metal beats by Noctvs, while M.S.Vøid distills his venomous gnarls nonstop together with Diogo. Black Putrescence feels even more primeval and demonic than the opening track, with the guitars by Lord and Fractal piercing our damned souls mercilessly; whereas Liberation keeps the sulfur flowing majestically in the album, with the vociferations by M.S.Vøid matching perfectly with the massive, Stygian sounds blasted by his infernal bandmates, flowing like an uncontrolled, vile beast from the underworld until the very end.

The band then offers a cryptic (and way too long) interlude simply titled Interludium, once again blackening our minds and souls before those Portuguese metallers attack our senses with Vesselvoid, bringing forward seven minutes of sheer despair and void, with M.S.Vøid roaring from the depths of the underworld while F.S.Void and Noctvs sound thunderous with their respective bass and drums, resulting in a lecture in Black and Death Metal by the band. Then the atmosphere switches from the epicness of longer tunes to the violence of a short and devastating one titled Azoth, where the entire band sounds evil and tight during its less than three minutes of savagery, with of course Noctvs sounding beyond brutal on drums. Lastly, they blast our ears with another six-minute feast of Black and Death Metal entitled Coagulation, with their strident riffs and rumbling bass generating a menacing atmosphere perfect for M.S.Vøid’s eerie growls and gnarls, morphing into the outro Epilogus, presenting three minutes of desolate passages, grim sounds and tones, and an absolute sense of nothingness.

As mentioned, Vøidwomb will guide you through pitch black darkness in their excellent new album, and you can get to know more about such promising name of the current Portuguese scene by following them on Facebook and on Instagram, by streaming more of their eerie creations on Spotify or on any other streaming service, and above all that, by purchasing Spiritual Apotheosis from the Avantgarde Music’s BandCamp page, from Sound Cave, or by clicking HERE. In other words, let the Black Metal darkly crafted by Vøidwomb in Spiritual Apotheosis reach deep inside your rotten soul, joining them in darkness for all eternity. And so we go to the stars.

Best moments of the album: Metempsychosis, Vesselvoid and Azoth.

Worst moments of the album: Interludium.

Released in 2024 Avantgarde Music

Track listing
1. Exordium (Intro) 3:53
2. Metempsychosis 5:09
3. Black Putrescence 4:36
4. Liberation 4:51
5. Interludium 3:29
6. Vesselvoid 7:04
7. Azoth 2:41
8. Coagulation 6:19
9. Epilogus (Outro) 3:02

Band members
M.S.Vøid – vocals
Lord – guitars
Fractal – guitars
F.S.Void – bass, backing vocals
Noctvs – drums

Guest musician
Diogo Santana – vocals on “Metempsychosis”