AN NCS PREMIERE: HEXEKRATION RITES — “ASCENSION”

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Nov 132019
 

 

In September of last year Atavism Records released the debut demo of Hexekration Rites, and we premiered one of the two tracks, a song that brought forth feelings of lust (rather than love) in my heart (loins?) because, as I wrote then, “the appeal of the music is definitely more carnal than romantic, more rooted in atavistic impulses and more likely to trigger primal reflexes — and as the song’s name suggests, ‘Chaos Absolution’ is wild, channeling a feeling of frenzied liberation and savage ecstasy”.

I concluded that premiere by disclosing that this formidable French black/death duo didn’t intend to stop, and that more Hexekration Rites creations would be forthcoming. And now another one looms on the near horizon.

On November 22nd the same Atavism Records will release the first EP of Hexekration Rites. Fittingly named Desekration Manifesto, it includes five transfixing assaults on the senses, and once again we have the twisted pleasure of presenting one of them, a track called “Ascension“. Continue reading »

AN NCS PREMIERE: HEXEKRATION RITES — “CHAOS ABSOLUTION”

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Sep 102018
 

 

As most NCS visitors are well aware, we only write about what we enjoy and want to recommend, and that goes for the music we agree to premiere. But I will say, perhaps inadvisedly, that I really really really love this new song by Hexekration Rites. Really.

Maybe that word will seem too soft and sentimental for such head-hammering and harrowing music, which combines the heaviness of death metal and the esoteric atmosphere of black metal. Maybe “lust” is a better word, because the appeal of the music is definitely more carnal than romantic, more rooted in atavistic impulses and more likely to trigger primal reflexes. And as the song’s name suggests, “Chaos Absolution” is wild, channeling a feeling of frenzied liberation and savage ecstasy. Continue reading »