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DECONSEKRATED
Ascension In The Altar Of Condemned

Iron, Blood And Death Corporation (2024)
Rating: 8/10

The Chilean scene has another worthy addition to its roster as four-piece Deconsekrated unleashes its rather short (28 minutes) debut album. The effect here is something akin to a glut of howling winds as the combo rattles windows, bows doors and snaps trees with its vigorous parade of unholiness.

The South American scene has always had that organic knack of channelling the most underground and primitive designs, so it’s no surprise then that Ascension In The Altar Of Condemned is such a blanket of encompassing evil. A track such as ‘Spectral Rites’ is downright terrifying, a haul of driving drums that surge betwixt stormy bass, the gust of riffs and those surging vocal gasps.

It’s not as if this album is particularly murky or filthy but its aggressive nature cannot be denied; black torrents of demonic rage snake their way like vicious, snapping rivers of anguish. The furious blasts exhibited on ‘Impure Glorification’ and ‘Ancestral Voice’ showcase the blasphemous extremes band members Gûl Evokator (vocals), Agorh Skullptor (guitar), Fides Naash (bass) and Rigor Mortis (drums) are willing to go to.

The lyrics are typically impious and anti everything, but that’s what you get with such crushing, profane extreme metal. ‘Litany Of The Blasphemous’ is the musical equivalent to being trapped inside an ancient monastery haunted by spectral monks initially and leads into the spiralling coldness of stark riffs. ‘Consumed By Emptiness’ simply spikes the tumult with extra layers of raging, primeval darkness.

This is an inescapable frenzy of frothing, sneering rhythms that originate from the frostiest plateaus, so approach with caution.

Neil Arnold

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