(written by Islander)
In an age when online porn is as easy to get as water from a faucet, the Silesian band Sexmag‘s name seems like an anachronism. Does anyone buy sex mag’s any more? Does anyone still publish them? Maybe there’s a museum for them somewhere?
It’s fair to say that the band’s music is also a throwback, in the sense that it summons the old spirits of bands like Sarcófago, Tormentor, Bulldozer, and Destruction. But don’t think listening is like wandering through a heavy metal museum or a museum of quaint publications with pinups in the centerfold. It’s more like being thrown into a filthy, blood-spraying orgy where the degenerate participants are vicious devils and demonesses.
But as you’ll already know if you threw yourselves into Sexmag‘s 2021 EP Sex Metal (which we gleefully premiered here), there’s more going on in their music than lewd and crude pentagram-draped romps, and that’s even more evident on their new album Sexorcyzm, whose title track we’re premiering through a video today.
And by the way, though we’re having fun with their name, they reportedly chose it in honor of an important old Polish heavy metal band named Kat (the Polish word for “executioner”), who recorded a song named… “Mag-Sex”. And based on that song’s lyrics, which tell a tale of a man raised by witches, its title might be better understood as… “magic sex“.
There is, in fact, an aura of magic in the song “Sexorcyzm” — black magic, the magic of lust, and the magic of hell-raising heavy-metal riot. As the drums maniacally pound and the bass hungrily throbs, the fleet-fingered riffing whirls like an ecstatic supernatural manifestation, and the rasp-edged, reverbed vocals conjure the vile and vitriolic extravagance of gnashing and slashing fiends gone wild.
It’s a feral, pulse-pounding, head-hooking experience, but it’s also packed with inventive (but relentlessly heart-pounding) drumwork, engorged with variations in the riffage, laced with fire-bright soloing delirium, and fever-pitched by mad screams and rabid snarls.
The ever-careening fretwork is relentlessly fast and technically impressive, but thoroughly geared toward the creation of beyond-earthly ecstasies — orgasmic indeed, but flesh-ripping to mere mortals.
SEXMAG is:
Jacek “Truposz” Wojno – Vocals
Lord Violator – Vocals, Drums
Igor “Maniak” Falinski – Guitars
Michal “Sabat” Sabatowski – Bass
Sexorcyzm will be released on May 23rd by Dying Victims Productions, on CD, vinyl LP, and digital formats. It features cover art by
Maegan LeMay. Find pre-order info via the links below, and then peer a bit further down and you’ll find a stream of the album’s diabolically electrifying first single, “Inkubus“.
PRE-ORDER:
https://dyingvictimsproductions.bandcamp.com/album/sexorcyzm
https://dyingvictims.com/