DESECRATION OF THE CAPITAL V
Exhumed once again for annual death worship, this edition sees the most extreme and destructive manifestation and will occur over two nights.
April 25/26
Featuring:
IMPETUOUS RITUAL (AUS)
GRAVE UPHEAVAL (AUS)
TEMPLE NIGHTSIDE (AUS)
SINISTROUS DIABOLUS (CHCH)
DUNGEONS OF BLOOD ( AUS)
SHALLOW GRAVE (AKL)
VESICANT
TREPANATION (AKLCHCH)
CENOSPHERE
PRISONER OF WAR (AKL)
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IMPETUOUS RITUAL (AUS) - Demented, horrifying and oppressive, IMPETUOUS RITUAL are one of the most destructive bands in Death Metal. A devastating act both live and on record contorting realms of unhinged violent obliteration with desolate threnodies of utter despair.
Taken from their label Profound Lore Records: Australia’s IMPETUOUS RITUAL have already been recognized as one of the most demented, insane, and darkest death metal entities in the underground today. From their levelling jaw dropping destructive live performances to their style of ultra devastating brutal atmospheric occult-driven destroyer of worlds death metal that was introduced to the world on their “Relentless Execution Of Ceremonial Excrescence” debut album, there is no death metal planet that captures such a vibe, aura, and aesthetic as IMPETUOUS RITUAL.
Listen to their masterful second album here: http://profoundlorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/unholy-congregation-of-hypocritical-ambivalence
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GRAVE UPHEAVAL (AUS) - Australia's GRAVE UPHEAVAL are one of the most ominous, oppressive and suffocating Death Metal bands to exist. Both live and on record, they evoke an utterly claustrophobic atmosphere which can be likened to a torturous live burial.
Taken from their label Nuclear War Now! Productions: The accentuation of ambience rather than technique is Grave Upheaval’s greatest strength and makes the music immediately arresting to the listener without the need to engage in repeat listens before it even begins to set in. The song writing and performance on the album is primal and severe, while the exquisitely disorienting haze in which the songs are drenched produces a hallucinatory effect. Forms emerge and retreat into the sonic miasma producing a textural richness rarely achieved in Death Metal.
https://nuclearwarnowproductions.bandcamp.com/album/no-title
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TEMPLE NIGHTSIDE (AUS) - Aptly described as 'Ritualistic Death Metal Necromancy, TEMPLE NIGHTSIDE's churning, sinister and hypnotic atmosphere is something few current bands are able to evoke. The brilliant Condemnation album, splits with Antediluvian and Vassafor as well as their performance at Black Conjuration which established them as one of the most ritualistic, heavy and mesmerising current bands in BlackDeath. This marks their first appearance in New Zealand.
Listen to them here: https://templenightside.bandcamp.com/
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SINISTROUS DIABOLUS (CHCH) - One of NZ's oldest and most cult Death Metal acts, SINISTROUS DIABOLUS return to consummate arcane rites of abyssal, funerary Death Doom. Monolithically bleak, SINISTROUS DIABOLUS will drag you within the howling void of oblivion.
Listen to their discography here: http://sinistrousdiabolus.bandcamp.com/
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DUNGEONS OF BLOOD (AUS) - Dark, menacing and cavernous Death Metal out of Brisbane Australia played in the old way. Their sepulchral Forlorn Graves demo released in 2014 has distinguished them as promising new cult, this will be their first incursion on NZ soil.
Listen to their demo here: http://dungeonsofblood.bandcamp.com/releases
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SHALLOW GRAVE (AKL) - Apocalyptic Doom Metal which beckons forth the coming Dark Age.
https://shallowgravedoom.bandcamp.com/
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VESICANT - Ominous, suffocating BlackDeathDoom from the void...
Listen here: http://vesicantcult.bandcamp.com/releases
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TREPANATION (AKL/CHCH) - An unrelenting maelstrom of grinding War Metal.
Listen here: http://trepanation666.bandcamp.com/
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CENOSPHERE - Savage, unrelenting Brutal Death Metal
Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch'v=oiqd_GgwgFg
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Prisoner of War - DeathThrash Metal in the tradition which established the genre. Fast beats and sewer riffs from the arsehole of the world.
Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch'v=xgkmHGIsyVs
