Today, Me Saco Un Ojo Records and Rotted Life Records announce March 15th as the international release date for Décryptal‘s striking debut demo, Sabazios Culte, on cassette tape format. Me Saco Un Ojo will release the tape in Europe while Rotted Life will release it in North America.
From the Canadian catacombs sprawls a new entity. Lurking in the darkest corners, Décryptal may contain seasoned veterans of the underground, but is itself a brand-new band. Much like the cover art might suggest, they play a foreboding and eerie style of death metal that will choke you on your own feelings of dread while there are elements of the grotesque that seep into your skin just as effectively. This cacophonous blend is chunky, putrid, and yet has substance in the form of a real eldritch atmosphere that lingers in the air. A deformed array of mangled riffing and spasming drums and warped bass lines will hook themselves into your cerebellum while maliciously evil vocals rip through with just as much potency. Altogether, this crypt stench is almost too thick to traverse as a mere mortal…
If, like many, you seek truly malignant music that has grooves, hooks, and memorability but also a truly putrescent and dastardly feeling to it, then Décryptal is essential listening. Like a combination of all of our favorite death metal ideals without feeling contrived, these Canadian brutes deliver a pungent debut offering that is an immediate statement of intent to all things morbid, ectoplasmic, and gruesome. Like a Lovecraftian horror that emits radiant cosmic chaos upon a sepulchral realm of decay, there is no running away from the ever-growing shadow cast by the towering Sabazios Culte. Fester in the crypts of horror as you witness a demo unfurl which is to become a favored gem of the underground. [text by Jørgen Sven Kirby, Nattskog webzine]
In the meantime, hear the brand-new track “Virulence Ectoplasmique” HERE at Me Saco Un Ojo‘s Bandcamp. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Décryptal’s Sabazios Culte
1. Pendu par Phobethor
2. Virulence Ectoplasmique
3. Les Barques Volantes de Sarnath
4. Flétrissement
5. Sabazios Culte