Oracular Hexations, by DIABOLIC OATH

Oracular Hexations

by DIABOLIC OATH

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Stagger This is a masterclass of blackened death metal.

Der Ohlsen "[...] this scratches an itch similar to Disimperium, Ch'ahom or Qrixkuor for me. Let chaos reign supreme! Rating: Six out of six unequivocal fuckyeahs echoing endlessly in a maze of torment!"

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rvss.eel I thought "war metal" at first but then things started getting too interesting, I could hear all kinds of details emerge as the songs continued to develop. Oracular Hexations isn't war metal, it's more metal. (yeah, I'm dumb.) Rusted Madness... pushes along forcefully until everything goes silent - except it doesn't. Serpent Coils... features classic black metal tremolo, but also warped, BaN-like background madness. There are of course four songs still remaining. They do as much again and more. Favorite track: Rusted Madness Tethering Misbegotten Haruspices.

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	1.	Rusted Madness Tethering Misbegotten Haruspices 04:41
	2.	Serpent Coils Suffocating the Mortal Wound 04:28
	3.	Winged Ouroboros Mutating Unto Gold 04:45
	4.	Fragmented Hymns from the Globulous Cruciger 04:03
	5.	Gathering Hordes from the Outer Worlds 09:44
	6.	Oracular Hexations Leeching 08:20

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The abysmal alchemists of lysergic black/death abominations Diabolic Oath are back with their most warped and devastating work to date. On their new sophomore full-length uncreation "Oracular Hexations" the band's staple approach of using completely fretless stringed instruments and a triple simultaneous vocal attack to depredate the listener's psyche, reaches truly majestic and catastrophic forms. Their technically daring and transformative approach to the usually dogmatic "war metal" craft has metastasized as a highly divergent and enigmatic mutation within the genre itself, where the crushing heaviness of the riffs concocted to their unconventional creation has resulted in an alternate reality of bestial black metal unbound with truly unseen and unthinkable auditory monstrosities. Shapeless, formless and free of any boundaries, the six lengthy spells contained within "Oracular Hexations" assume an almost globulous, chimeric form, appearing horrendous and misshapen to the listener as they morph and four-dimensionally sprawl like a sensorially annihilating mass devouring the psyche. The gnarled and grotesque nature of chords and musical structures created evoke a sense of disorienting and otherworldly disembodiment, becoming a fertile ground for degenerate forms of ritualism and esotericism that weave an unsettling conceptual canvas rife for the propagation of the absurd. Unbound with cryptic and abstruse mutterings about cosmological, multi-dimensional and impossible states of being, "Oracular Hexations" is an hallucinatory convergence between technical, crushing and flesh-scouring musical genius and truly grotesque forms of composition and storytelling. An indissoluble dualism between primeval destruction and inscrutable bewilderment which will test the psyche and flesh of those subjected to the album's surrealistic destructive force.

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released April 5, 2024

OMINOUS VOID: Vortex of Abysmal Degradation
CHTHONIC CONQUEROR: Benthic Libidinous Collisions
THE TEMPLE: Five Pillars of Pentagrammic Mesmerism

Drum recording engineered by Charlie Koryn
All other recording engineered by Brian Rush
Mixed by Xav at Tehom Productions
Mastered by James at Plotkinworks

Cover art by Khaosdiktator
Inside art, sigil, and logo by Iconartistry
Photo by Scott King

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