LUCIFERICON (Nl) – ‘Sabatraxas’ MLP

INVICTUS PRODUCTIONS is proud to present a special EP from LUCIFERICON, Sabatraxas, on 12″ vinyl format.

For 15 years now, the Netherlands’ LUCIFERICON have been crafting a noble Metal of Death that’s both traditionally rooted and boundless in its inspiration. From early EPs The Occult Waters (2012) and Brimstone Altar (2016) to the breakout debut album Al-Khem-Me in 2018 and its masterful follow-up The Warlock of Da’ath in 2022, LUCIFERICON have never been ones to rush this craft; each recording is deliberate, imparting a particular sensation unique from the last but always somehow sounding like the same band. Inertia Metal this is not: deeply personal occultism given sonic form, free-flowing yet focussed, has been their stock in trade for a decade and a half.

To celebrate this particular Left Hand Path, LUCIFERICON are now releasing a special anniversary EP titled Sabatraxas. Evenly split into two halves, the first three songs are brand-new compositions which impart lurking dread and hulking surge, dusted with tastefully fleeting lead work – muscular, serpentine, sooty, and unmistakably LUCIFERICON without a whiff of the over-familiar or retreading past glories. The three tracks that follow are live readings of “Khidir’s Urn,” “Qliphotic Trance” (both from The Warlock of Da’ath), and “Sevenfold” from Al-Khem-Me. Passionately performed and powerfully rendered, LUCIFERICON prove they are as potent live as they are on record.