Extirpation Dirge, by ABYSSAL RIFT

Extirpation Dirge

by ABYSSAL RIFT

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YomaBarr Well, well, well. Possible list wrecker in December, and the best release on SR this year imho.
Since Blood Incantation apparently decided to go ambient, and with Misanthropic Rage sadly disbanded, this can very well be a worthy successor. And you want to tell me this is all one man, plus a drummer?!

Ippocalyptica Extirpation Dirge features the best opening three minutes of any death metal album that I have encountered in 2023 (please listen only with good speakers or headphones) and it also does the best job of incorporating doom metal that actually sounds like doom, and not just a death metal album with some slowed down parts. There are even some delightful sonic surprises in here, flexing muscles that are neither death nor doom. Sentient Ruin rarely misses, and Abyssal Rift is another winner.

AndyChrist Please listen only with good speakers like Wilson Audio Sabrinas or headphones like Focal Utopias (if your poor, dont listen) and it also does the third best job of incorporating doom metal that actually sounds like doom, and not just a death metal album with some slowed down parts. There are even some delightful sonic surprises in here, flexing muscles that are neither death nor doom. .I am a pretentious wiener. Favorite track: The Eye.

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	1.	The Plague 06:47
	2.	The Rune 06:04
	3.	The Magister 06:17
	4.	The Scourge 04:40
	5.	The Eye 08:51
	6.	The Mourning 04:01

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Abyssal Rift emerges from the bowels of hell with its debut-full length monstrosity, "Extirpation Dirge", a thirty six-minute miasmatic behemoth of dark and antihuman death-doom conceived by Columbus, Ohio-based multi-instrumentalist Matt Auxier (of industrial acts 6th Circle and Ash Prison) handling all instruments, songwriting and recording, with the exception of drums (performed and recorded remotely by David Mahony of Irish black/grind terrorists Unyielding Love). The band is the manifestation of Auxier's long-running history as a metalhead and of his extensive appreciation (parallel to that for industrial music) for dark and atmospheric death metal bands like Incantation, Disembowelment and Immolation as well as for 60's and 70's prog bands like Goblin, King Crimson, Eloy, and Amon Düül II, which in the context of his expertise and knowledge as a producer and home studio owner, has yielded a dense and disorienting dark death metal beast shrouded in surreal atmospheres and an hallucinatory form of dirge-like experimentalism. An all-devouring obfuscation of abyssic crush depth, "Extirpation Dirge" seems horizonless and bottomless as it propagates and gravitates downward like a churning maelstrom, alternating moments of obliterating machine-like dark death metal destruction to others of misery-torn doom and cinematic widescreen experimentalism, with dense synth work alternating contemplative passages of clean guitars and ominous presages of spectral dark ambience.

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released December 1, 2023

Written and recorded by Matt Auxier
Guitars, bass, vocals and synths by Matt Auxier
Drums played and recorded by David Mahoney
Mixed and mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air
Cover art by Jessi Nihil
Design & layout by MA

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