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Tetragrammacide | Typho-Tantric Aphorisms from the Arachneophidian Qur'an | 2023

Indian Black Death Metal

Artwork by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule

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black metal-vinyl: black cilice - “transfixion of spirits”. released via iron bonehead productions in 2019. this is a copy of the 2020 repress.

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Tetragrammacide — Tantric Aphorisms from the Arachneophidian Qu’ran (Iron Bonehead)

Death metal act Tetragrammacide likes to deal in maximalist gestures. If you think Tantric Aphorisms from the Arachneophidian Qu’ran is a hifalutin mouthful of syllables and concepts, check out a couple of the monikers the band has hung on its songs: “Mandelbrot Scarab of Fractal Manifestation Trapped in the Arachnid Webs, Spun above the Hidden Pathways into Non-Euclidean Interbetweenness” and “Intoxicated Bees of Sekhet-Aarhu Circumambulate the Abode of Self Beheaded One Who Forever Danceth in Her Shaktisexual Ecstasy.” Say what? And also: thanks, dudes. Now I have a baseline schema for what a Mandelbrot Set is (but it’s tough to understand thoroughly without some advanced maths) and that Shaktisexual energy is a thing among the New Age types (marginally more useful knowledge to this intrepid adventurer…). All that is stimulating, and sort of fun, but what does any of it have to do with death metal?

Even after repeated spins of Tantric Aphorisms from the Arachneophidian Qu’ran, this reviewer can provide little enlightenment — though some sort of spiritual experience, likely involving rapacious sexual desire and significant acts of property damage, seems very much at stake in the music. Tetragrammacide is part of the ever-evolving death metal scene in Kolkata, and like fellow West Bengali band Aparthiva Raktadhara, the band seems intent on articulating a malign underside to India’s rich religious and cultic traditions. While the band’s semiotic antics seem superficially more suited to the perversely playful energies of dissonant tech death, on this record Tetragrammacide has pushed further into the black/death aesthetics they have explored for close to a decade.

That is: there is more speed and burl to this music than there is absurd complexity or an acrobatic, linear compositional sense. The riffs ring clear, and the rhythmic are flexible but driving. Tunes like “Fundamental Reconciliation between Maya and Yama through Perpetual Okbish-Ouroboric Cunnilingus” are less bestial, more ecstatic (no shit…). But that’s in the ear of the listener — and Tetragrammacide is taking a chance interweaving terms and concepts like Yama and Qu’ran in India’s current social and cultural climate. Some listeners might find those thought experiments more blasphemous than bestial, or criminally bestial in their blasphemy. In nations like the US or Sweden, adventurous death metal has always been intent on shattering taboos and offending moral sensibilities. In Modi’s India? The stakes of those intents and acts seem a lot higher.

Jonathan Shaw

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CRUCIFIER "Led Astray" LP 2024 (A killer third full-length album of truly underground blasphemic Death Metal the ancient way. Hail Crucifier !)

1. Smite... 2. Feed the Furnace 3. In Hircine Splendor 4. Biers of Catholic Bones 5. With Cornu and Peccant Breath 6. Trafficking with the Devil 7. Serenaded by the Angels' Shrills 8. Harbingers of Apollyon 9. An Endeavour of Rats

Crucifier - Led Astray | Iron Bonehead Productions (bandcamp.com)

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Weregoat - The Devil's Lust (EP 2022)

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Rope Sect is about seclusion. Renunciation of society. A dance on ruins. A doomsday revel. Naked spite. Eleutheromania. Obedience... Venerate the rope! Fear the rope!

- Rope Sect -

ROPE SECT

The Great Flood (2020)

Iron Bonehead Productions

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Verberis - Vexamen (Iron Bonehead Productions, 2016)

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Review 59: House of Atreus - Orations

House of AtreusOrationsIron Bonehead ProductionsReleased: 2/1/24 –1 – Orations/Reascension of Mastery2 – Thy Wounded Sovereignty3 – Under an Accursed Dynasty4 – Morphos of Degeneration5 – Cathedral of Ancestry6 – Riding the Storm (Running Wild cover)– House of Atreus are a sweeping, combat-worthy melodic death metal band hailing from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Formed in 2010 under the moniker of…

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Italian Black Metallers ABHOR To Release New Album, 'Sex Sex Sex (Ceremonia Daemonis Antichristi)' This September!

Italian Black Metallers ABHOR To Release New Album, ‘Sex Sex Sex (Ceremonia Daemonis Antichristi)’ This September!

Padua, Veneto Italy-based black metal unit ABHOR will release their eighth album, Sex Sex Sex (Ceremonia Daemonis Antichristi) on September 23rd on Iron Bonehead Productions! The band has also dropped the first single, “Evil Mentor”. Get more details down below after the jump. From The Press Release Today, Iron Bonehead Productions announces September 23rd as the international release date…

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Pa Vesh En | Martyrs | 19th May, 2023

Belarusian Raw Black Metal

Releasing via Iron Bonehead Productions

Links to follow...

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An under rated skill of goku's is his general awareness. Generally speaking, he's very good at noticing power. That's why when he lets his foes reach full power (like Frieza) he's the one who clowns them, unlike Vegeta who gets clowned whenever he does that.

With that in mind, it's very fitting that he knows Instant Transmission. It's a skill whose fundemental requirement is being able to sense the strength of others

It's worth noting that Vegeta and Goku's situations there are starkly different - though not as much as you might think.

Frieza up to that point has been so courteous as to provide a running tally of how much ki he's using at a given point.

Goku can make a confident assumption of what 100% Frieza will look like because he's already experienced 50% Frieza. Nonetheless, Goku's motives were the same as Vegeta's all the same.

Like Vegeta, Goku was drunk on Saiyan battle-lust when he decided to both a) let Frieza power up to 100% and b) remain on Namek while everyone else was being whisked off to the safety of Earth. Though Goku's battle-lust was also driven by a desire for revenge.

But, as Kaio points out, the battle-lust of the Super Saiyan's taken hold of Goku's senses. Given the choice between revenge and a fight, Goku's more interested in the latter.

By contrast, at the time Vegeta made this boneheaded decision:

Nobody had any idea what Perfect Cell would be like. Not even Cell.

Notably, both Goku and Vegeta at their respective times were also channeling the Super Saiyan, which - as Kaio noted above - includes among its effects heightened aggression and impaired decision-making.

After being told multiple times that the Super Saiyan is a hyper-aggressive ultra-warrior, Goku finally had the chance to experience it on Namek. His assessment was "Gohan needs to leave before this form makes me do things to him too."

In an ironic twist, we even see the arrogant cruelty of the Super Saiyan intermix with Goku's own pleasant demeanor in the form of the cruel mercy he offers Frieza.

Goku's never cared about shredding someone's pride before. He's in it for love of the game. He just wants a good fight.

But here, he's like, "I've broken your spirit, your body, and your will. Run off and cower under a rock and spend the rest of your life agonizing in terror about your pathetic inadequacies, you useless trash mongrel."

He doesn't even want Frieza to train up and come back to fight him again like Piccolo and Vegeta; He's legit telling Frieza to go wallow in defeat. And that's. Just. Not how Goku talks to people he's beaten. Super Saiyan Goku is a very sore winner.

Letting Vegeta become a Super Saiyan is like getting a squirrel high on speed. He was battle-hungry and aggressive enough already, but now he's battle-hungry and aggressive squared.

Goku, for his part, worked hard on controlling this enhanced aggression. When Gohan first became a Super Saiyan, Goku tried to coach him through managing it as well.

This was part of the purpose behind Goku and Gohan's mastery of the state during their RoSaT training. After giving up on the idea of breaking the Super Saiyan's limits, part of the purpose behind mastering the Super Saiyan itself was to eliminate the enhanced aggression.

Get rid of the ki bleeding, get rid of the psychological byproducts, and normalize it so that it's as natural as their base states. There's even a cool visual effect you can pick up with it.

When a character turns Super Saiyan, their eyes turn sharp and angular to indicate their enhanced ferocity.

It's a look characters get when they're mad or focused, but the Super Saiyan always looks like that. Even when contemplative or scared, a Super Saiyan looks pissed as hell.

But once Goku and Gohan master the state, they're able to have gentler, rounder eyes in this form even while they keep the angular Super Saiyan eyebrows.

This is a man who is no longer resisting a compulsion to start throwing hands at everyone in the immediate area. The Super Saiyan answers entirely to him now, with no drawbacks.

...but when Gohan's rage boosts mix with the ultra-fury of a limit-broken Super Saiyan to form Super Saiyan 2, all of that bad decision making comes sweeping in again. The aggression...

...and the cruelty.

So. Yeah. Super Saiyan is a hell of a drug.

So far as Goku and Vegeta go, however, there is one other interesting point of comparison to be made. Against Frieza and Cell, they made similar choices, but their circumstances are admittedly a little different. Though it's worth noting that there is one other data point of interest.

For that, we turn to Majin Buu. Here, Goku and Vegeta make similar choices to forego Kaioshin's quest to thwart Majin Buu, instead choosing to have their long-awaited rematch with one another. Vegeta starts it when he throws a fit during Gohan's fight with Dabra, condemning this whole thing as a waste of time.

Borrowing the same power from Uranai Baba that once let his Grandpa Gohan face him in the ring of martial arts and say goodbye, Goku has a 24-hour reprieve from death so that he and everyone who loves him can have their closure. Appropriately, he chose to spend it at the Tenkaichi Budokai - before all this Kaioshin nonsense happened.

For Vegeta, this meant an opportunity to face Goku in the Tenkaichi Budokai. To have one last chance to truly surpass his rival, rather than living with the uncertainty of never measuring up to a gravestone. And all of this nonsense is denying him that.

But it's not quite so innocent as "I want one last fight with my rival." Vegeta wants to win that fight. By his own later admission, the hissy fit he throws here is a ruse meant to attract Babidi's attention. He's seen firsthand that Babidi can bring out incredible power and cruelty from people, and wants Babidi to fix him.

Vegeta wanted this fight. And he wanted to win it. He wanted to be the version of himself that could win it. Nothing else mattered.

As for Goku? Well.

Goku wants this fight too. Kaioshin pleads with Goku, telling him that he'll have to go through him. Goku accepts those terms and intimidates Kaioshin into surrendering and letting the fight happen.

Goku, notably, does still care about thwarting Buu. He sends Gohan and Kaioshin off to deal with that while he faces off with Vegeta. Goku is a complicated man. He wants good things for people and to have thrilling battles, and when the fists begin flying, he's visibly having the time of his life.

He just. He thinks they can afford to get away with this. Neither Goku nor Vegeta takes the threat of Majin Buu seriously. This much was evident when they started playing Janken to decide who fights Babidi's minions in the first place.

As Vegeta explains once Buu does awaken and they do start to sense his ki:

Goku and Vegeta are powerful beyond even the reckoning of the highest gods at this point (pre-DBS). And so even when Kaioshin begs and pleads with them to take this seriously, that Majin Buu is truly dangerous, his words fall on deaf ears.

Goku takes it more seriously than Vegeta does. He starts this fight insisting that he's going to go Full Power against Vegeta from the get-go to try and end this as fast as possible.

But he still plays along. He's been playing along.

This is the tragedy of the early Buu arc. Neither of them really cared about thwarting Majin Buu. They just. Assumed they could handle it. Because they were so powerful that they made everyone Kaioshin was intimidated by look like jokes, and they expected no different of Buu.

Just like with Frieza. Just like with Cell. At least they're consistent.

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Black Cilice — Esoteric Atavism (Iron Bonehead)

Iron BoneHead Productions · Black Cilice - Channeling Old Power

“Beyond the Veil” is the first song on this new LP from Black Cilice, and the phrase will do for a sort of mission statement, for the music’s aesthetics and for the listener. The Portuguese project seems to be among those black metal bands that really mean it, so its negative affect is intended as a vector of spiritual transport, opening portals to ominous, nefarious zones of horror and damnation — not necessarily Pandemonium, or rural New Jersey, but you get the idea. Those same sounds present the casual listener with a set of challenges: how to penetrate the deep murk of the recording, its strangely brittle pummeling and all the warping, pulsing waves of what must be guitars. There’s music here, after a fashion, but it’s almost entirely buried beneath a haze. A veil.

Given Black Cilice’s chosen genre, that’s sort of the point. A lot of raw black metal sounds like it has been recorded in someone’s musty toolshed with crap, third-hand equipment. Going beyond those too-refined conditions, Esoteric Atavism seems to have been captured on a taped-over Maxell UR 90 (some of you know…) with a barely functioning boombox, positioned in a sub-basement adjacent the one in which the band played — a thick cement foundation between them. Lo-fi? This is no-fi, a purposeful intensification of early Scandi black metal’s preference for production techniques that might make the music sound closer to death. Black Cilice appears to be less interested in the romance of utter destruction, and more engaged by the weirding possibilities of cultic experience. Songs are titled “Triumph over Eternity” and “Spiritual Poisoning”; those could be playful representations of mortal dread, or they could be paradoxes, suspending final conclusions in favor of suspension itself — a blankness, a void. 

Even for a self-consciously extreme version of what some folks insist on calling extreme music, Black Cilice makes difficult, disorienting sounds. It’s easy to get lost in the filmy miasma. You think you’re listening to “Atavistic Reconnection” (nice title), but you find that you’re actually halfway through “Towards Transcendence.” Perhaps that’s the desired effect, a sort of ritual hypnosis, a trance. Many listeners may encounter something different: a flattened and ultimately tedious stream of vaguely discernable noise. That noted, anyone with an interest in how sound and texture can involve each other in synesthetic confusions may wish to see where Esoteric Atavism can take them. If you have black cowls and candelabra set up nearby your stereo equipment — well, here are your weekend plans. 

Jonathan Shaw

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CRUCIFIER “Say your prayers” MCD/MLP 2022 (Hell yeah ! At last some new Crucifier material four years after the excellent “Thy Sulfur Throne on High” ; and it’s still Heavy, aggressive - yet sufficiently melodic - and blasphemously inspired as you can expect it. Not to mention the killer guitar solos, an awesome cover of legendary Carnivore, and of course, the unmistakable drumming & vocals of Cazz ‘The Black Lourde of Crucifixion’ Grant himself. Hail Black/Death Metal Underground ! Hail Crucifier !)

1. My Soul to Take 2. Foul Deeds Will Rise 3. Into Ash 4. Chime of the Goat's Head Bell 5. Jesus Hitler (Carnivore cover)

“One of the longest-running entities in the American underground, CRUCIFIER was formed in 1990 by vocalist/drummer Cazz Grant. While myriad lineups would come and go - and the band's eventual debut album, ‘Stronger Than Passing Time’, wouldn't be released until 2003 - CRUCIFIER have kept consistent to their blasphemous, blackened Death Metal style steeped in the truly ancient and most underground ways. Now, four years after their last recording (the full-length ‘Thy Sulfur Throne on High’), CRUCIFIER return to ruin everyone's day with a five-song/26-minute mini-album titled ‘Say Your Prayers’. Primal but not primitive, weird and wandering but fully locked-in and never forgetting the METAL aspect, the quartet create a ghastly, grimy experience here, with Grant's vocals in particular stunning in their diabolic delirium. Furthering that delirium are the mind-mangled leads by Spencer "Madman" Murphy, also aided by Grant, altogether proving that CRUCIFIER's eldritch sound is eternal. Concluded by a Carnivore cover, CRUCIFIER never stop the madness, so Say Your Prayers !” (Iron Bonehead)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGBGB9DcS-k

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