
We’re very proud to celebrate the re-emergence of Spain’s black metal contortion Délirant from the depths of subconsciousness, the return of which reanimates a crawling ascent of mind and soul destruction through the medium of auditory disfigurement. Shrouded in dissonance and swathed in nightmares, the band’s long awaited new album “Thoughteater” is a sonic dissection of the abyss conceived by long running black metal recluse D.B. (also of Negativa and Hässlig), which will see the light via Sentient Ruin in mid-February 2025.
In the meantime Délirant’s new auditory hallucination has been teased by respected underground metal blog Invisible Oranges, who in premiering the track “Thoughteater IV” have remarked how the work is “a vortex of chaos that clamors for attention and consumes it” and is a “a carefully planned route toward insanity” – you can check out the track and future HERE.
This sophomore full-length offering is a surreal descent into the darkest corners of the subconscious, the hypnagogic state, lucid dreaming, and deviant states of perception, achieved through the unorthodox but regal medium of twisting, dissonant black metal. Of the same abominable and shapeshifting breed as that wielded and perfected by acts like Blut Aus Nord, Akhlys, Deathspell Omega, Abigor And Mispyrming to harness superior realms of imaginative destruction and auditory deception, and which has redefined metal music in this peculiar form as an unparalleled vector for all-devouring musical surrealism. The obsession of becoming one with the void is the zenith of the work, its median and most abyssic turning point after the initial descent. Once the absolute depth of interior horror has been reached, the second half of the album unfolds embodied as a cathartic pilgrimage to seek the light through darkness, overcoming fear and doubt, anxiety and panic. In the grand masterplan of the album’s deeply intimate and self-explorative nature, light and hope are contemplated, but absolutely crushing and abysmal realms of darkness and suffering must be endured before this re-emergence can be achieved, rendering “Thoughteater” essentially a personal expiation through the penitence of absolute torment.
“Thoughteater” is slated for a February 14 2025 release worldwide on LP, CD, MC, digital formats worldwide, all of which are now pre-orderable via all our channels.