ESKHATON – horracle – CD

Death Metal, Black Metal – Hells Headbangers

To date, ESKHATON have released three albums, with 2018’s Omegalitheos being the most recent offering and which sent the band on a barrage of destruction in Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and twice in Europe between 2018-2019, alongside such bands as Incantation, Cemetery Urn, Impetuous Ritual, Diocletian, Heresiarch, Sabbat (Japan), King Parrot, Nocturnal Graves, Watain, Cult Of Fire, Krisiun, Drawn And Quartered, Funebrarum, Krypts, Interment, Venenum, Mitochondrion, Force of Darkness, Weregoat, Tombmold, Godless, Nocturnus AD, Full Of Hell, Mispyrming, Inverloch, Beheaded, Altarage, and many more, including two performances at the Brutal Assault fest in consecutive years plus the afterparty show in Prague.

All those years spent taking their Total Death metal madness across stages far and wide have finally culminated in ESKHATON’s grandest statement to date, and yet also their shortest: the five-song/30-minute Horracle. However, lumber under no belief that this recording is lacking in any respect; in fact, any longer and Horracle might simply be too horrifying to endure. Decaying occultism and tortured extremity coalesce into a hammering whirlwind that showcases ESKHATON’s most diverse songwriting, spanning both their fastest and slowest tracks. Chaos and epic evil are still at the forefront of their attack, but the band’s exceptional tightness – even when tempting those very corners of chaos – is a demonic delight to experience. That they take such serpentine material, impossibly murky and already palpitating at the very core, and deliver it with a katana-sharp clarity is even more demonic. Thus, Horracle is truly titled.

And ESKHATON are just getting started: a new full-length for HELLS HEADBANGERS is already in the works. Those borderlanders into both Psycroptic and Pseudogod, Cryptopsy and Conqueror, you MUST witness this Horracle!