
Today, Caligari Records announces April 17th as the international release date for Ignobleth's highly anticipated debut album, Manor of Primitive Anticreation, on CD and cassette tape formats.
Formed in 2022 in the plains of northern Italy, Ignobleth are a power-trio currently comprising A.L. on guitar, A.B. on bass and vocals, and M.O. on drums. At the beginning, the band's influences squarely focused on such bestial / war metal pillars as Blasphemy, Archgoat, and Conqueror. Eventually, their sound mutated a bit to include more angular gnarliness like Teitanblood, Kerasphorus, and Antediluvian. In their words, "Our music resides in the cavities and the ravines where death and black metal coexist in (dis)harmony…"
Ignobleth took to the stage in 2023 and released a demo, Rot in the Cave, onto YouTube. The following year came their first EP, Voidspawn Sacrifice, showing a distinctly savage understanding of what's black and white and red all over. Still, massive potential lurked within said cavities and ravines, and they've at last manifested in Manor of Primitive Anticreation.
Ignobleth's full-length debut, Manor of Primitive Anticreation is conspicuously beyond their more idiomatic early work: now, morbid and downtuned kabbalistic death / black metal. While the ideas for this debut album had been forming in their heads since 2023, the desire to do something completely different from the preceding EP intensified as time went on. Grittier in sound and style, Ignobleth here opt for more dissonant riffing, contrasting the low rapturous & fast patterns, with more frenetic drumming and a more twisted compositional style. The song structuring may be seem scattershot at first or at least bewildering, but there's order in chaos within this Manor of Primitive Anticreation: constant changes in pace and atmosphere, with frequent variations in BPM, different sound effects to embellish the tracks, vocal styles ranging from cavernous growls to high screams of anguish, more distorted bass, longer songs, ambient interludes (including a collaboration with Gnaw Their Tongues), occasional guitar harmonies, and plenty more are all threaded together with a delirious sort of magick. Which is all informed by an outlook and lyrics based on Kabbalistic magick, Sumerian mythology, Egyptian mysteries, and Lovecraftian abominations, altogether elevated from their old works, which the band admittedly liken to "Blasphemy and Archgoat worship " - a veritable ouroboros of form and content, art and artlessness, high and low, above and below. Dare you step into Ignobleth's Manor of Primitive Anticreation?
"Reversion to primaeval forms, capable of maddening at sight, erect protuberances filled with phlegm, virgin vulvas vomiting snakes, they sense blood with their forked tongues…"
In the meantime, hear the brand-new track "Warped Abyssal Architectures"
HERE at Caligari's Bandcamp, where the album can also be preordered. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Ignobleth's Manor of Primitive Anticreation
1. Cults Of The Undead and Profane Necrolatry
2. Obelisk Of Deformity
3. Warped Abyssal Architectures
4. Spores
5. Forked Tongues
6. And The Lunar Mass Shatters
7. Interlude: Lecherous Sex Magick
8. Proselyte Pig I
9. Proselyte Pig II
10. Manor Of Primitive Anticreation
11. Among The Seventy-Two Embalmed Ekpyrotic Gods