NOGOTHULA – telluric sepsis LP black

lim. black vinyl to 200 copies + downloadcard

Hailing from Cincinnati, Ohio, NOGOTHULA formed in 2021 originally as a trio, including vocalist / guitarist Colton Deem of the mighty VALDRIN and vocalist / bassist Eric Payne of regional heroes Verment. Alex Hooper rounded out the band on drums, and together they released the Gore Vortex Ascension demo a year later. The title itself gave more than a small indication of the sci-leanings the band would soon explore across their surging & slamming style of death metal. Guitarist Nick Moeller would later join, and as a quartet, NOGOTHULA would record their debut album, Telluric Sepsis.

Sharper, strangely concise, and yet also more mind-bending, Telluric Sepsis is prime progressive-leaning death metal that never loses sight of the original essence of DEATH METAL. References are many – early 2000s Decapitated, Pierced From Within-era Suffocation, pre-Obscura Gorguts, late ’90s Cryptopsy – but NOGOTHULA possess an elusive nous that minces and mangles those sturdy signposts in a manner that’s familiar and foreign in equal measure. While the sci-fi element isn’t as pronounced as, say, Nocturnus’ first couple albums, there’s nevertheless an undercurrent of “supernatural spaciness” to the overall atmosphere of Telluric Sepsis – part production, perhaps, or part songwriting itself. For the latter, the songwriting found within the nine-song / 43-minute album slices & sluices with deadly precision, keeping momentum always moving forward but equally unsettling the listener; linear trajectories are to be found here, but the sum effect is swarming and cyclonic. And even amidst the brutal breakdowns, the razor-wire riffing runs riot across Telluric Sepsis, peppered with fleeting-yet-furious leads while Deem and Payne’s dual vocals make that swarming / cyclonic effect hit that much harder. Feel the lacerating vibrations of NOGOTHULA and behold their labyrinthian sunken spires!

Tracks:

1. Awakening
2. Chaospore
3. Catacomb Cauldron
4. Lacerating Vibrations
5. Observers of Perpetual Rot
6. Labyrinthian Sunken Spires
7. Morbid Seas of Stygian Blood
8. Telluric Sepsis
9. Meandering Comatose Twilight… The Carrion Viaduct

Genres: Death Metal

GPSR Information:
Manufacturer:
Blood Harvest Records
Box 2014, 22002 Lund, Sweden
mailorder(at)bloodharvest.se