ESOCTRILIHUM — Pandaemorthium (Forbidden Formulas To Awaken The Blind Sovereigns Of Nothingness) (review)

ESOCTRILIHUM — Pandaemorthium (Forbidden Formulas To Awaken The Blind Sovereigns Of Nothingness) album cover Album · 2018 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
Warthur
Whereas Esoctrilihum's debut album was a more or less straight down the line atmospheric black metal number (though a rather pleasing example of that style), this compendium of forbidden formulas is a different matter. They might be working with forbidden formulas (formulas fatal to the flesh, perhaps?), but this is hardly formulaic - instead Esoctrilihum add a fat dose of death metal, embellishing their solid atmospheric black metal foundation with sickly, bestial grunting vocals and brutal guitar.

Death metal and black metal aren't miles apart to begin with, after all - how many bands have drifted from one to the other? - but few have managed a fusion of the styles quite as startlingly malevolent-sounding as this album. The quest to make extreme metal sound ever more evil is a difficult one, but Esoctrilihum here might have hit upon a stratum of darkness which we never before suspected.
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