AN NCS PREMIERE: SEREMENT — “FORGING THE DARKNESS”

The blasphemous Athenian quartet Serement came to life in mid-2022, with three of its members moving onward from the death metal band Blessed by Perversion and the fourth having spent time in Chaos Heresy and Sickening Horror.

After independently releasing their 2022 EP Deviation From God, Serement made an unholy pact with Dolorem Records (France) and Iron, Blood and Death Corporation (Mexico) for the release of their debut album Abhorrent Invocations on May 17th of this year. The labels faithfully describe the music this way:

Their sound and style are heavily influenced by the most obscure and aggressive aspect of the Death Metal genre, with a Black Metal atmosphere that always casts a shadow over every track of the new record, combining fast blast beats with some groove rhythms and haunting melodies.

As a more concrete sign of what the album brings, today we’re premiering an album track called “Forging the Darkness“.

The darkness that Serement forge in the song is demented and cruel, but also crushing and desolate.

In its main segment, the song is indeed a riveting experience of ferocity and madness. Embellished with a gritty, skull-scouring tone, the guitars viciously skitter and throb, feverishly swirl, and miserably whine. Both the ferocity and the madness are underscored with furious blast-beat fusillades, bursts of kick-drum thunder, and methodical neck-cracking beats.

In the depths of the song, the bass executes its own maniacal assaults and gut-rumbling upheavals, and the band also bring in heart-pounding grooves that are almost jubilant in their bludgeoning. To complete the experience, you’ll hear monstrous cavern-deep roars, which elevate into harrowing howls and rabid screams.

Well, that’s not quite the complete experience. In the song’s final minute, the music sharply diverges, slowing into a lumbering stomp segmented by brutish pile-driver blows. There, the riffing descends into an expression of dismal agony.

SEREMENT is:
Andreas Moschopoulos / Vocals
Manolis Kouelo / Guitars
Vaggelis Nanos / Bass
Vaggelis Vasilopoulos / Drums

The album’s lyrical themes are described as “mostly a combination of social matters, sometimes from an abstract or dark perspective, deeds of humanity and figments of the imagination, that creates a twisted and eerie ambience. It also focuses on the ideology of resistance to anything that oppresses every form of life”.

Abhorrent Invocations was mixed and mastered by George Christoforidis at Ignite Music Studio, and it features eye-catching cover art by Misanthropic-Art.

It’s available for pre-order on CD (with a 12-page booklet including lyrics) and digital formats, and the labels recommend it for fans of Belphegor, Morbid Angel, and Behemoth (Zos Kia Cultus-era).

Below, we’re also including a stream of the previously released album track “Stench of Torment“.

PRE-ORDER:
https://www.doloremrecords.com/fr/music/552-serement-abhorrent-invocations-cd.html
https://doloremrecords.bandcamp.com/album/abhorrent-invocations-album

SEREMENT:
https://www.facebook.com/serement22
https://serement.bandcamp.com