On April 1st internationally, Demoniac Productions is proud to present Cenotafio’s third album, La Escisión Acausal: Por La Vía Inversa Hacia La Descarnación, on CD and vinyl LP formats.
Cenotafio hail from the frontiers of southern Chile, in a bloody transfixion that decomposes and darkens the veins of everything created under the stormy & wrathful black / death metal that’s been inoculated all along the last decade. To date, the band’s two full-lengths have cemented Cenotafio’s position as one of Chile’s best new-breed black / death bands – no mean feat, given the rich history of Chilean underground metal and its ever-thriving scene that’s arguably even stronger today. Then again, the duo of Daniel Hermosilla and Patricio Kusnir are no mere newcomers, as both men have been playing in a number of hordes for well over a decade, including the cult Invehertex.
Now, after six years since their last full-length, Cenotafio reveal themselves as a banner as well as an alliance with their long-awaited third album. Titled La Escisión Acausal: Por La Vía Inversa Hacia La Descarnación (English: „The Acausal Cleavage, through the inverted way to the fleshing out“), the record’s weighty title is accordingly illustrated by its foul, feral contents. Across the 43-minute album’s six tracks, Cenotafio lay bare a supremely sepulchral landscape where genre delineations become irrelevant. Black metal devours death metal, then vice versa, all while a roiling undercurrent of doom provides the rhythmic sturm under drang that’s seemingly scattershot but eventually reveals its restless genius. Sprawling and demanding, to be sure, but those of a hardier constitution are rewarded by La Escisión Acausal’s depraved sonic and spiritual depths. One could even liken the album to the Ouroboros, buried under miles of ash: blackened death metal, deathened black metal, blackdeathdoom…all spiraling in hypnotic lockstep, all consuming and all-consuming, in salacious delight. It’s an understatement, then, to say that this wait for Cenotafio’s return has been worth it.
