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SEPULCRUM
Lamentation Of Immolated Souls

Chaos / Canometal / Burning Coffin (2023)
Rating: 8/10

The bowels of South America continue to burp up quality death metal and this time it is Chilean posse Sepulcrum who formed in 2019. Nicolás Miranda (vocals and rhythm guitar), Oscar Gibert (lead guitar), Nicolás Espinoza (bass) and Sebastián Zúñiga (drums) are the guys responsible for this debut full-length and they deliver ten death metal rants in the vein of Morbid Angel at their most furious and demonic.

Raw, primitive vocal barks fuse frantically with wild spasmodic solos, gushing riffs of coldness and enough percussive frenzy to leave you foaming at the mouth. In a sense, this is classic South American darkness fused with Floridian evil. The band even more aggressive than they were on their 2020 EP Corpse Diving Holes, although you still get those weird cavernous leads which echo through the dank chambers that also reverberate to those nasty riffs.

Much of what is on offer is fast, grim and primitive with occasional drifts towards a black / death aesthetic. The likes of ‘Orbital Teratoma’, ‘Schizophrenic Amputation’, ‘Arousing The Putrid Flesh’ and ‘Sick Delusion’ all get the same macabre treatment – often fast-paced flurries dripping with a filthy bass and dragged through the blizzard by those throaty vocal bursts.

This is extreme metal of great familiarity but such is its potency and wickedness of its tone and attitude that to discard it onto the pile of other soundalikes would be a crime. As always, Chile offers something organic, infernal and riveting via old school values, suggesting that what is both in the water and in the blood originates from some hellish domain so as to produce such unflinching and chaotic chemistry.

Neil Arnold

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