Darknight
Claustrum create death metal music from the old times and it sounds great. There's no gimmicks just old fashioned sounding death metal but it sounds so fresh, well done guys, you've made my death metal day!
Favorite track: Desire of Death (Nuclear Death).
Claustrum is an old school death metal trio: Pablo (vocals/guitar), Paul (bass) and Stefano (drums), born someplace between Trieste and Gorizia, in north-eastern Italy, all brought together by a feral passion for the death metal of old. Drawing their inspiration from sci-fi, horror, authors like Poe and Lovecraft and the misery of human existence, in their debut, self-titled album Claustrum delivers some crypt-reeking, disturbing death metal, heralding the impending Apocalypse.
The Latin word Claustrum stands for a thin sheet of gray matter that connects to cortical and subcortical regions. It is considered the most interconnected structure within the telencephalon, that allows for the integration of multiple cortical stimuli, such as visual, acoustic and tactile. It is commonly considered the area of the human brain where the soul resides.
But Claustrum is also an enclosed space, a fence, a prison. As the band explained: “Claustrum to us also means separation from the rest of the world. The record was born during a period of confinement due to the pandemic and for this reason it is above all an outlet, something authentic and spontaneous with which to release... more
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releases June 9, 2023 via Avantgarde Music/Unorthodox Emanations
Tape Out soon via Night Terror Records & Filth Junkies Records
About the artwork, artist Davide “Dartworks” Mancini commented: “I created this piece thinking about the environmental impact of industries and the role they play in the climate crisis. This is the vision of a gloomy, melted scenario, where mud spontaneously shapes grotesque figures crossed by rusty pipes and smokestacks, the only remnant of civilization and probably the arsonist of the upcoming major fire which Greek philosophers called Ekpyrosis, referring to the end of the world by a great conflagration”.
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released June 9, 2023
Recorded by Francesco Bardy at Trackterminal Studio, Trieste.
Mixed and mastered by Gabriele Gramaglia (Cosmic Putrefaction, Vertebra Atlantis & more).
Intro by Morgan Bellini (Vanessa Van Basten, Angela Martyr), outro by Morbid Philosopher.
Cover art by Davide ‘Dart Works’ Mancini.
I'm kicking my own ass for somehow missing this when it released. Expertly arranged death metal with kick drums that could demolish a high-rise. zirtonic
Extremely inventive and multifaceted sci-fi prog death, just like iridescent ethereal world on the cover art. Best band's achievement up to date. And easily in 2023 AOTY list Dmitry Nevozhay
An outstanding Extreme doom death album, in the best tradition. The funerary atmosphere reminds of Evoken ('Centuries of ooze" bears striking similarities, for my delight). It is overall sharp, dark, hypnotic and unrelenting. One of those rare convincing new bands that hold proud the legacy of the biggest names. Bertrand Marchal