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DECREPISY     “Deific Mourning”

By Dr. Abner Mality

Some extremely serious and disturbing death-doom is on tap from this new conglomeration of vile metallic talent. “Deific Mourning” goes a level deeper than just “cavernous”...this stuff is so heavy it could rearrange tectonic plates like furniture.

Members hail from units like VASTUM, ACEPHALIX, ASCENDED DEAD and similar fun-loving bands. The sound has a resemblance to all of those acts, especially VASTUM, yet somehow manages to be even more grim and weighty, with odd and uneasy guitar atmospheres added to crushing doom riffs and subterranean groans. Perhaps this is because main songwriter Kyle House of ACEPHALIX spent several years of almost complete incapacity due to a botched vaccine reaction. This music sounds like it is on the edge of death’s abyss and House has personal experience with living on that edge. That makes this authentically creepy.

Six of the seven songs are absolute bone-crushers combining suffocating doom with burst of ferocious aggression. Eerie synth tones and the occasional vocals of Leila Abdul-Rauf add to atmosphere. There’s more than just plodding riffs going on, there’s a commitment to otherworldly vibes. I can’t really pick a fave from the first six, but “Spiritual Decay, ¼ Dead” struck a nerve. The record ends with a much more Gothic track “Afterhours” ,which combines GODFLESH plod with a dreary kind of BAUHAUS feel. Despite being notably different, it fits with the rest of the album.

This is sure to be one of the better death metal offerings of 2025.

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