In a long overdue return, Portugal's The Ominous Circle rise again from the mist with their sophomore album "Cloven Tongues of Fire", a deeper descent into the great, endless chasms. A maelstrom of fire and relentless chaos that defies everything in this age of empty standards and sterile paradigms, the new full-length effort represents their darkest, most intense and uncompromising manifest to date, both a witness to the wickedness of iniquity and a tribute to the arts of the extreme.
Sophisticated yet raw, dynamic and fierce, presenting a different approach to songwriting while continuing the path of 2017's acclaimed "Appalling Ascension", "Cloven Tongues of Fire" delivers 43 minutes of black-infused Death metal with monolithic slabs of doom. A defaced abomination of low-tuned impious riffing, dissonant patterns and wildfire rhythms, from the manic blasting of “Through Tunnels Ablaze” to the gargantuan epic that is “Utterance of the Formless”, forming a tome of Dark Death Metal necromancy.
Its organic production harks back to ancient times and is crowned with Dan Lowndes' mastering magic to forge an opus of filth, blood and venom where new elements merge with old facets to spawn an opus of labyrinthine shapes and blaze-laden cacophony. Unapologetic and confrontational, "Cloven Tongues of Fire" is a testimony of the awe-inspiring splendour of Death.
300x orange crush 12" (140g) in a black poly-lined innersleeve, download card, booklet 8 page 20x20mm, full-color on 150g g art paper, gatefold jacket, full-color printed on 350g carton, coated paper, all assembled in a plastic overbag.
ΑΧΕΡΟΝΤΑΣ stands beyond and against the veils of mundane illusion. In a world shackled by politics—the ultimate deception and enslavement of the mind—the Coven upholds the path of individual ascension, where spiritual evolution is the only truth and the only freedom. For almost three decades, ΑΧΕΡΟΝΤΑΣ has not merely played music—it has performed Spiritual Art. The Great Work endures…
- 350gsm Gatefold Jacket with inside flooded in black and matt varnish - 140g Black Vinyl - 250gsm Cardboard Insert - Remastered by P. Engel at Temple Of Disharmony - Artwork & Arrangements by Mirko "Gaamalzagoth" Schmat