Today, Italian black/death cult Demonomancy premiere the new video “The Day of the Lord”. The track hails from the band’s highly anticipated second album, Poisoned Atonement, recently released to international acclaim via via Invictus Productions. In lieu of a full-scale European tour beginning next week (dates below), see & hear Demonomancy’s “The Day of the Lord” below
For a decade now, Demonomancy have been steadfast pillars of the bestial metal idiom, perfecting it over the course of two EPs and 2013’s definitive debut album, Throne of Demonic Proselytism. However, whilst working with the same strident fundaments – ancient South American black/death, the rigorous Blasphemy/Beherit axiom, early proponents of metal primitivism like Profanatica and VON – hereby with Poisoned Atonement do the power-trio leave behind all pretenders and stake out a new, defiant claim of sulfurous metal magick.
Portended by the ominous new track on the 2016 split with Finnish comrades Witchcraft, Poisoned Atonement portrays a Demonomancy no longer bounded by subgenre dictates. Here, they explore all the craggiest corners of their songwriting acumen, finessing forth an endlessly burly yet richly dynamic soundfield that verily approximates the most mysterious echoes of the grand abyss. Smothering, mind-melting violence collides head on with vortextural ritualism, wild-child heavy metal abandon with austere, locked-in grind: Demonomancy not so much leave no stone unturned as they do simply CRUSH it into feeble dust under their massive, ever-masterful boots. To begin understanding the multi-layered miasma of Poisoned Atonement is to gaze deeply into its cover art…
As such, Demonomancy is the sublimation of primitive human impulses morphed into aural spears that suffocate consciousness in a perennial leprous embrace. Corrosive verses burn superficial organic tissues, revealing the pulsating flesh exposed in its primordial obscenity. In this atoning pilgrimage, the unbearable guilt gives birth to inner demons that lacerate the mendacious drape covering our hidden and irrational world. “We praise the morbid and forbidden Bestiality to be rejoined with our primeval dimension,” state the band. “We praise the diseased and torbid Spirit bounded by the mortal coil’s festering chains. The body is merely a monumental epitaph. Metal of Death – Methodical Chaos.”
Bow in fealty and begin your Poisoned Atonement with Demonomancy… Visual atonement can be found HERE,
Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Demonomancy’s Poisoned Atonement
1. Intro – Revelation 21.8
2. Fiery Herald Unbound (The Victorious Predator)
3. Archaic Remnants of the Numinous
4. The Day of the Lord
5. Poisoned Atonement (Purged in Molten Gold)
6. The Last Hymn to Eschaton
7. Fathomless Region of Total Eclipse
8. Nefarious Spawn of Methodical Chaos
DEMONOMANCY European tour dates
22.03 – NANTES, FR – Ferrailleur
23.03 – PARIS, FR – Backstage
24.03 – LONDON, UK – Boston Arms
25.03 – AMSTERDAM, NL – P60
26.03 – GENT, BE – Asgaard
27.03 – COPENHAGUE, DK – KB18
29.03 – POZNAN, POL – U Bazyla
30.03 – LODZ, POL – Magnetofon
31.03 – KRAKOW, POL – Ze Pe Te
01.04 – VIENNA, AU – Viper Room
02.04 – SALZBURG, AU – Rockhouse
03.04 – FIRENZE, IT – Circus
04.04 – PESCARA, IT – Tikitaka Village
05.04 – MILANO, IT – Circolo Svolta
06.04 – BAAL, CH – Sommer Casino