One and a half weeks before the official release of PESTILENGTH’s third album, “Solar Clorex“, the Basque Country corrosive Death Metal duo presents the full album stream.
Delve into an impeccable sequence of tense, cryptic songs-of-decay where grotesque vocals combust, choke and reignite; barbed riffs – each with a sting in the tail – creep, crawl and shapeshift into electrifying violence; merciless rhythms transition from cavern-dwelling churn to jolting frenzy, skewed grooves to pure brutality:
Composer M. shares insights on “Solar Clorex“:
“It could be considered as the third of a trinity: “Eilatik” was the furthest picture of befouled empires, anomalous creatures, oozing sulfurous fumes, not a welcoming landscape, whereas “Basom Gryphos” introduced one to the biggest entities dwelling in the nether, powerful, from the depths and mixing chemical substances around natural ones, wood, chrome, steel, molten tephra; a dangerous mixture of horrors. The eyes make the mistake of looking at it, and then it’s too late. Finally, the ‘Suhbem Legm’ single introduced another hidden monster that seems silent, but its frequencies resonate even motionless, chaos is its preceding cataclysm: “Solar Clorex“, thus, is the inevitable destruction of everything, just dormant enough to awake at the right time to reset any minuscule particle of life. Sound-wise we worked hard to improve certain thorns in our veins. We worked at El Submarino Records studios and then The Empty Hall Studios mastered it. It was a pretty intense and nonstop week of recording, but thanks to that, the organic and natural sound is top notch!“
Discover all the details about “Solar Clorex” here!
“Solar Clorex” will be released via CD, vinyl and digital formats – alongside merchandising – on February 16th, 2024. Pre-orders are possible via the label’s EU, US (no merch) and Bandcamp shops.
In early 2018 the anonymous duo PESTILENGTH emerged from the Basque Country with a twisted, contemporary-yet-classic style of extremity which they called ‘corrosive Death Metal’.
After a well-received series of demos and singles, in 2020 the band released first full-length, “Eilatik“, described by No Clean Singing webzine as: “…absolutely vicious at all times. It rips and tears in a frenzy, and pounds without mercy or remorse.“
By the end of 2020, the band had received worldwide attention among labels, blogs, and musicians. Additional EP “Apore Flesh” was enthusiastically praised by LEVIATHAN‘s Jef Whitehead for reaching “… far beyond the world of copycats of the ‘underground'” in “khaotick shards of thought-provoking metalz of dementia“. A split with Mexican band REVERENCE TO PAROXYSM had followed soon afterwards the same year.
In August 2021, PESTILENGTH‘s monstrous sophomore album “Basom Gryphos” was unleashed to widespread critical acclaim. The album contained eight new songs whose cerebral slithering brutality was mirrored in the striking cover art by Namurian Visions.
In 2023 the band inked a deal with Debemur Morti Productions for the release of their upcoming next-level third album.