siLLy puPPy EXECQUIAE SACRO is a new band in 2024 that prefers to remain a bit mysterious. Shrouded in penumbra, the band reveals three members in its photo op but doesn’t reveal band member names. This blackened death metal band emerged in Varese, Italy and debuts in 2024 with its first EP titled LEADING A WAR AGAINST TOOLS OF POSTHUMANITY.

This is a filthy, muddy, murky style of suffocating death metal that sounds a lot like war metal in its caustic production but the blackened aspects seem a bit more in the production rather than the music itself. This is a furiously fast style of death metal that sounds a lot like crust punk such as Amoebix as well due to the muddled cacophonous uproar.

This EP features 5 tracks at 24 1/2 minutes each unfortunately sounding pretty much the same as the next. The musicians are skilled and sound like seasoned death metal veterans with crazy blackbeats, chugging twin guitar buzz, a hidden bass under the din and animalistic growly vocals. This is thunderous roar type of death metal and if you don’t mind a continuous monstrous death metal frenzy through a heavy dosage of din then you will love this quite a bit.

The album cover art depicts the musical style pretty well as it does sound like a hellish burning in the fiery pits of Hades type of soundtrack. There are a few death doom parts as well courtesy of one of the member’s involvement with the doom metal band Dionisium. There is also connection to the better known Italian death metal band Hadit also from Varese so obviously there’s an overlap here.

This is a satisfying slice of no nonsense blackened death metal that offers a production similar to those claustrophobic disso-death bands like Portal and Mitochondrion however the death metal here is closer to old school in compositional style than anything that extreme and experimental. Unfortunately this band ends up sounding a bit too generic for its own good but it is certainly a worthy excursion in the sonic death fields of murky blackened death metal. More variety would be good but exquisitely performed and certainly not a waste of time.