Label: Deanwell Global Music
Track Listing:
1. Anti-Phoenix Descent
(5:43)
2. Serpent's Shroud
(3:14)
3. Vicissitudes Ov Fate
(3:40)
4. Tomb Creeper (2:59)
5. Faith In Darkness
(3:59)
6. Black Void (4:30)
7. Subterranean Goat
Transfiguration (3:25)
8. Everdark Calling
(2:38)
9. Awakening Ancient
Power (3:16)
10. Psychocosm (4:59)
With the ambiguity of
their striking album cover a dark, complex visual work plunges straight into
the occult and ritualistic aesthetic of Black Metal. It depicts a grotesque
chimera, combining attributes of various predatory and mythological animals to
create a fusion that is both bestial and divine an image that appropriates the
traditional iconography associated with the devil and demons.
Atlanta (GA) - U.S.
Black Metal band Überchriist relesed
their second full-length album, Dæmonic
Apotheosis, on September 25 via Deanwell
Global Music.
formed in 2010, Überchriist formed with the purpose of
transcending the boundaries between human, demon and god. Dæmonic Apotheosis. What phantasmagorical wonders and horrors the
thread running through Dæmonic
Apotheosis. Ten tracks, 38:23, and most of them pull downward. Apotheosis is elevation to the divine,
and on this record the road there runs straight down
Musically, this is
classic black metal featuring blast beats, tremolo picking, and an atmosphere
of icy coldness, paired with a dark sonic and visual aesthetic. The band makes
room for melody whenever a track calls for it, and one can detect a genuine
influence from old-school heavy metal within the riffs. The production is
organic and raw, executed with great skill, even the classic black metal
aesthetic and imagery corpse paint, spikes, swords, and axes are present,
standing in contrast to many modern acts that have abandoned these foundational
traditions of the underground scene.
Dæmonic Apotheosis is a dark work exploring spiritual elevation through
a descent into the abyss the occult and the subterranean tombs and everything
that goes with them.
The album opens with Anti-Phoenix Descent which sets the
stage for the content that follows, succeeded by Serpent's Shroud a raw black metal track with a steady, mid-tempo
rhythm that concludes with a subtle melody.
Vicissitudes Ov Fate is a heavier, more melodic track featuring well-timed
tempo shifts (tempo changes at right time), while Tomb Creeper alternates between blast beats, a raw tempo, and
melodic passages. Faith in Darkness
evokes an ambient, atmospheric sense of obscurity Subterranean Goat Transfiguration is perhaps the track that best
encapsulates the album’s themes, according to my research, it signifies the
culmination of a physical and spiritual metamorphosis achieved through an
occult ritual performed deep underground and invokes the classic imagery of the
goat.
Psychocosm serves as the closing track.
Notable tracks to look
out for or to pay attention : Anti-Phoenix
Descent, Tomb Creeper and Black Void
Dæmonic Apotheosis is a spiritual work that celebrates enlightenment through darkness an occult journey into the abyss, you can now add Dæmonic Apotheosis to your collection.
