AN NCS PREMIERE: NAHASHEOL — “BRINGER OF DIVINE ECSTASY”

Nahasheol announced its mysterious existence last year with an EP named Kaaosoth, and soon this band’s diabolical powers will be fully revealed through a debut album named Serpens Abyssi that will be released by Argento Records and Wolves of Hades on November 3rd.

The herald of the music is the striking cover art you see at the top of this page, created by Cayo Farias. Like the album’s title, it captures the daunting and dangerous presence of a great abyssal serpent, surmounted by an evil eye, with the presence of death surrounding them. It’s an unholy, esoteric, otherworldly, and dangerous vision, and so is the music.

As a sign of what the album will bring listeners, today we premiere a song from the album named “Bringer of Divine Ecstasy“.

This song we present today is both an electrifying and a chilling experience, often panoramic in its expansiveness and explosive in its percussive power and vocal wrath, but also unnerving, channeling sensations of unearthly menace, debilitating illness, ecstatic delirium, haunting mysticism, and sinister grandeur.

In the song’s opening phase the riffing itself slowly writhes like a vast serpent, though the chords vibrate feverishly and are as dismal-sounding as they are threatening. They’re immersive, saturating the senses with their unsettling tones, backed by a heavy bass-pulse, thunderous double-bass, variable snare rhythms, and riotous fills. The experience is indeed both electrifying and disturbing.

Quivering leads pierce through the tumult, enhancing the song’s expanding aura of madness, and the vocals are no less disturbing, venting their vitriol in rabid, reverberating howls whose raging hostility is unmistakable.

Yet the song is mystical as well as mad. The turmoil vanishes, replaced by aural mists and the spectral echoing of a simple melody that’s morose but hypnotic, beckoning but sinister. As the song continues evolving, its sweep becomes vast again, with a guitar carrying that melody forward through the sleet-storm of riffing and the percussive spectacles in even more frightening fashion. That simple solitary melody returns at the end of this ceremony, to put a few final shivers down the listener’s spine.

 

 

Nahasheol is the creation of Brasilian-born musician Daniel Souza (Outlaw, Imperium Infernale). For the new album he composed the music and performed vocals and guitars, and was joined in the recording by drummer Krzysztof Klingbein and bassist Vinicius Biz. The lyrics were written by Narkee and Edgar Kerval.

Daniel Souza also produced and mixed the album, and it was mastered by Tore Stjerna.

Argento Records/Wolves of Hades will release Serpens Abyssi on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats. You can explore those options via the links below, and we also invite you to listen to the album’s previously released opening track, “Arcanum Mortuus“.

PRE-ORDER:
https://wolvesofhades.bandcamp.com/album/serpens-abyssi
https://wolvesofhades.myshopify.com/

NAHASHEOL:
https://www.facebook.com/NAHASHEOL-107778595139006