Watch ÆNIGMATUM’s “Animus Reflection” bass playthrough HERE.
Portland, Oregon technical death metal outfit ÆNIGMATUM
has just issued a scorching playthrough video of bassist Brian Rush
mauling the song “Animus Reflection.” The track is found on the band’s Deconsecrate LP, issued last August through 20 Buck Spin
Following their well-received eponymous debut, the idiosyncratic methodology of ÆNIGMATUM is instantly apparent from the whip-start blast of Deconsecrate’s
opening track “Forged From Bedlam.” While the pace is frenetic, speed
is never a crutch to be relied upon but rather one deliberate device in a
sprawling collection of melodically precise and technically riveting
fragmented death shards.
The eight songs on Deconsecrate
constitute a labyrinthian structure of twisting nuanced complexity and
intricate explosive chaos. Blood-freezing and incandescently beautiful
at once, ÆNIGMATUM
tempers their withering elaborate intensity with astonishingly elegant
melodic passages carved into the mind like towering marble
hallucinations. Immersing in Deconsecrate,
one might be forgiven assuming they’d stumbled upon a lost obscurity of
mid-1990s Gothenburg, the dark harmonies, the dual guitars, the
staggering rhythm section; but in fact, ÆNIGMATUM
has bequeathed a startlingly ambitious paragon of mystifying esoteric
death metal magnificence. This one should not be missed by fans of
Eucharist, The Chasm, At The Gates, Dark Tranquillity, Necrophobic,
Atrocity, Death, and early Opeth.
Deconsecrate’s
drums and some of the rhythm guitars were engineered by Charlie Koryn
at Toadhouse Studio, the rest of the rhythm as well as lead guitars,
bass, drums, and vocals were engineered by the band’s Brian Rush at
various locations. The album was re-amped by Leon Del Muerte (Impaled)
at Beastman Audio, mixed by Charlie Koryn at The Underworld Studio,
mastered by Julian Silva at On-Air Mastering, and completed with surreal
artwork by Ivory Crux (Voidceremony) and layout by Dan Fried.
Watch ÆNIGMATUM’s bassist Brian Rush deftly navigate the perilous web of “Animus Reflection” RIGHT HERE.
Deconsecrate is available on LP, CD, cassette, and digital formats through 20 Buck Spin’s label webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE.
Watch for updates from ÆNIGMATUM throughout the year.
“Though
the band themselves avoid references as much as possible to their sheer
instrumental mastery, it’s really a lot of why this album is so
impressive. It’s hard to write stuff that’s complex without it coming
across wrong, or feeling weak, but ÆNIGMATUM
tie together weird and difficult riffs alongside wicked bass and some
of the fastest drums in the genre to give something that, despite
evoking a few specific names (The Chasm, Alf-era At The Gates, Cynic)
has something that is undeniably their own sound.” - Invisible Oranges
"...there's a strange twist to AENIGMATUM.
They're tech and a hair unorthodox, as if they've studied Nechrophagist
and Archspire's master theses while jamming the fuck out of 'Raped By
The Light Of Christ' and 'Ever-Opening Flower' as background music." -
Decibel Magazine
"On Deconsecrate, the second album from Portland death-metal quartet ÆNIGMATUM,
that ambient horror slowly begins to take over, clouding the band’s
joyful mutations as they careen along the borders of black, death,
speed, tech, melodic—basically any high-velocity form of metal." -
Pitchfork
"...truly
excellent. It’s one of the best sounding death metal albums I’ve heard
in a while... It’s aggressive, it’s cohesive, and it wastes exactly zero
of your time in getting to the point which is something hyper-intricate
and engaging death metal." - Heavy Blog Is Heavy
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