IGNOBLETH (It) – Manor of Primitive Anticreation CD

IGNOBLETH’s full-length debut, Manor of Primitive Anticreation (following their EP Voidspawn Sacrifice on Masked Dead Records) is conspicuously beyond their more idiomatic early work: now, morbid and downtuned kabbalistic death / black metal. Grittier in sound and style, IGNOBLETH here opt for more dissonant riffing, contrasting the low rapturous & fast patterns, with more frenetic drumming and a more twisted compositional style. There is order in chaos within this Manor of Primitive Anticreation: constant changes in pace and atmosphere, with frequent variations in BPM, different sound effects to embellish the tracks, vocal styles ranging from cavernous growls to high screams of anguish, more distorted bass, longer songs, ambient interludes (including a collaboration with Gnaw Their Tongues), occasional guitar harmonies, and plenty more are all threaded together with a delirious sort of magick. Which is all informed by an outlook and lyrics based on Kabbalistic magick, Sumerian mythology, Egyptian mysteries, and Lovecraftian abominations, altogether elevated from their old works, which the band admittedly liken to “Blasphemy and Archgoat worship ” – a veritable ouroboros of form and content, art and artlessness, high and low, above and below. Dare you step into IGNOBLETH’s Manor of Primitive Anticreation?