On March 28th internationally, Putrid Cult is proud to
present Chthonic Cult's highly
anticipated second album, Become Seekers for Death.
The roots of Chthonic Cult lay
in both Berlin and Wroclaw, but those are merely earthly bindings, for the
all-enveloping soundworld of the band's debut album, I Am the Scourge of Eternity,
resolutely laid in the Beyond. Released in 2015 by Iron Bonehead, Chthonic Cult's first public
work comprised four monolithic tracks in a soul-draining 47 minutes. An
orgiastic feast for the ears as well as eyes, drawing together bulldozing black
metal, bestial death metal, and smokestacked doom metal into a hypnotizing
whole, I Am the Scourge of Eternity was
celebrated across the underground, all before Chthonic Cult seemingly
returned to the grave.
But alas, "seemingly," for they arrive seven years later into a worse
world with Become Seekers for Death. Aptly
titled, Become Seekers for Death is
the sound of Chthonic Cult diving
deep into the realm of sheer and total DEATH METAL, torching its parameters,
and rearranging the ashes into their own twisted design. Indeed, the band's
ways and means here are fiercely focused and fine-tuned into the spectrum of
crushing-yet-classy Metal of Death: power and professionalism are the
watchwords here, and yet for however more "approachable" Chthonic Cult may appear to be,
the resultant conflagration is actually more potent, and startlingly so. As
such, the 40-minute album is judiciously sliced into eight track-sized chunks,
making their attack more compact and concise. Still, within their blackened
death bestiality-unto-bulldozing reveals a similarly vortextural maw like its
towering predecessor - but, by comparison, perhaps Become Seekers for Death is
the rotten, rippling soil beneath that tower. Less "head music,"
then, as full-body music...and that body is summarily CRUSHED.
"Blackened death metal" may be a dicey and oft-misleading term, but
there's still stern adepts drawing from the wells of the ancients in these
increasingly modern times. Chthonic Cult return
when the fates deemed it right, and from beyond the veil did they bring
back Become Seekers for Death.
Begin seeking with the brand-new track "Ironclad Nemesis" HERE
at Putrid Cult's official YouTube
channel. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting
for Chthonic Cult's Become Seekers for Death
1. Ironclad Nemesis
2. On the Wings of Drought
3. The Thunder Spoke to the Spirit
4. When the Ancients Speak
5. Become Seekers for Death
6. In the Seventh Hour
7. Crimson Streams of Sacrifice
8. The Hunt of the Light-Bearer
1. Ironclad Nemesis
2. On the Wings of Drought
3. The Thunder Spoke to the Spirit
4. When the Ancients Speak
5. Become Seekers for Death
6. In the Seventh Hour
7. Crimson Streams of Sacrifice
8. The Hunt of the Light-Bearer
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