Metallurgical Fire
When one of the best extreme labels out there started doing death metal as well, I knew I had to pay attention. Claustrum competes quite favorably with any releases on your death metal label of choice. The production is clear, heavy, and menacing. Drums are an artillery barrage, riffs are eclectic, and vocals are appropriately grotesque. A necessary acquisition for fans of the genre.
Favorite track: Destined To Rot.
Lorenzo
Grotesque old school death metal from Italy honouring the doomier legends of the genre. Hammering with filthy riffs and drumming, Claustrum wastes no time in their deranged delivery that is more or less 25 minutes of pure violence.
YomaBarr
Reminds me of Sepulchral Curse 🖤 (but doomier) in their mastering of the noble art of guitar harmonies in death metal.
And a debut. Should've known. Best albums of 2023 are debuts...
bmurator
Italian Death Metal. There is something quite unique about debuts, apart from the obvious. When a band gives you everything they have & then some. Plus, every now & then these debuts hit all the right places... :) So it is here - love the vocals & the instrumentation! Brilliant DM & I am very excited where they will go next! Highly recommended!!!
Taiyat
Cool. The weekend is about to start and I just got kicked in the guts and punched in the kisser. I’ll gently groove along though. Good stuff, this.
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To be released on our Death Metal imprint Unorthodox Emanations
Claustrum is an old school death metal trio born someplace between Trieste and Gorizia, in north-eastern Italy, featuring members from Grime, Affliction Vector, Fierce and Dromme, all brought together by a feral passion for the death metal of old. Drawing their inspiration from sci-fi, horror, authors like Poe and Lovecraft and the misery of human existence, in their debut, self-titled album Claustrum delivers some crypt-reeking, disturbing death metal, heralding the impending Apocalypse.
The Latin word Claustrum stands for a thin sheet of gray matter that connects to cortical and subcortical regions. It is considered the most interconnected structure within the telencephalon, that allows for the integration of multiple cortical stimuli, such as visual, acoustic and tactile. It is commonly considered the area of the human brain where the soul resides.
But Claustrum is also an enclosed space, a fence, a prison. As the band explained: “Claustrum to us also means separation from the rest of the world. The record was born during a period of confinement due to the pandemic and for this reason it is above all an outlet, something authentic and spontaneous with which to release negative energies that have been compressed for too long. That's why during this separation for us it was paramount to rely on certainties. And those certainties are liturgies written by Autopsy, Asphyx, Death and Incantation”.
credits
released June 9, 2023
About the artwork, artist Davide “Dartworks” Mancini commented: “I created this piece thinking about the environmental impact of industries and the role they play in the climate crisis. This is the vision of a gloomy, melted scenario, where mud spontaneously shapes grotesque figures crossed by rusty pipes and smokestacks, the only remnant of civilization and probably the arsonist of the upcoming major fire which Greek philosophers called Ekpyrosis, referring to the end of the world by a great conflagration”.
Recorded by Francesco Bardy at Trackterminal Studio, Trieste.
Mixed and mastered by Gabriele Gramaglia (Cosmic Putrefaction, Vertebra Atlantis & more).
Intro by Morgan Bellini (Vanessa Van Basten, Angela Martyr), outro by Morbid Philosopher.
Cover art by Davide ‘Dart Works’ Mancini.
The first 30 seconds of "Revenge by Fire" convinced me to get the whole album! It is a face-melting blend of speed and black metal, reminiscent of Hellripper! KVAEN is a Swedish solo project much like Hellripper but many known guest musicians helped J. Björnfot in his endeavor. Altogether it is really a solid debut album, I loved the melodies and the pace changes in the second half too, ending with a "calm" instrumental one. Well-done!! sashavonkarl74
Wow!! I'm at a loss for words as every album of NONE's is a masterpiece!! I hope some my friends here can check them out if not already familiar with NONE 🖤 MP