Today, Werewolf Records announces September 13th as the international release date for Dead Flesh Stigma‘s striking debut album, Necrocosmic Death Ritual, on CD format.
Masterminded by Vargrav / Druadan Forest mainman V-Khaoz, Dead Flesh Stigma is a psilocybin-fueled plunge into the vast-yet-oft-unexplored abyss of industrialized black metal. Joining him are a number of esteemed guest vocalists, including Hellwind (Grieve, Embyronic Slumber et. al.), Narqath and J13 from Azaghal, and the notorious Graf Werwolf von Armageddon.
The collective’s first public work, Necrocosmic Death Ritual is an aptly titled album: in space, no one can hear you scream. With rusty robotic pistons pumping and torched tones searing above and below, Dead Flesh Stigma‘s debut album seeks to overwhelm the senses, and succeeds with devilish ease. Granted, one perhaps has to be acclimated to that rarefied idiom – one pioneered by Mysticum’s landmark In the Streams of Inferno, the most obvious influence here, and then expounded upon by the likes of early Blacklodge, Traumatic Voyage, Diapsiquir, later Trollheims Grott, and of course Dodheimsgard’s 666 International – to truly immerse themselves in this rippling body high (or negation?). But as with all things that bear V-Khaoz’s touch, form and content intertwine in a symphony of totality, synthetic and caustic in equal measure.
Industrial BM is both alive and dead with Dead Flesh Stigma‘s Necrocosmic Death Ritual!
In the meantime, hear the brand-new track “Worms and Eyes, Eyes as Worms” here:
Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Dead Flesh Stigma’s Necrocosmic Death Ritual
1. Worms and Eyes, Eyes as Worms
2. Farewell to the Flesh
3. Interlude – Cipher for Self-Destruction
4. Black Harvest
5. The Weak Wept Below
6. Interlude – Life Lies Bleeding
7. The House of Satan Pt.1 – Pure Denial of Life
8. Necrocosmic Death Ritual
9. Interlude – The Chamber of Faceless Angels
10. In the Shadow of the Conquerors
11. The House of Satan Pt.2 – The Dreamlike Triumph of Rebirth
12. Outro – Trapped in False Reality
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