Artist: Aenigmatum
Title: Deconsecrate
Label: 20 Buck Spin
Cat #: SPIN138
Release Year: 2021
Duration: Album
Format: CD
Packaging Type: Jewel Case

Deconsecrate is the second full-length studio album from the US black/death metal band Aenigmatum.

The idiosyncratic methodology of Portland’s Aenigmatum is instantly apparent from the whip-start blast of ‘Forged From Bedlam’, the opening track of their second album ‘Deconsecrate’. While the pace is frenetic, speed is never a crutch to be relied upon but rather one deliberate device in a sprawling collection of melodically precise and technically riveting fragmented death shards.

The eight songs on ‘Deconsecrate’ constitute a labyrinthian structure of twisting nuanced complexity and intricate explosive chaos. Blood-freezing and incandescently beautiful at once, Aenigmatum temper their withering elaborate intensity with astonishingly elegant melodic passages carved into the mind like towering marble hallucinations.

Immersing in ‘Deconsecrate’ one might be forgiven assuming they’d stumbled upon a lost obscurity of mid-90s Gothenburg, the dark harmonies, the dual guitars, the staggering rhythm section; but in fact Aenigmatum have bequeathed a startlingly ambitious paragon of mystifying esoteric Death Metal magnificence.

Recommended if you like: Death, Atheist, At The Gates, Void Ceremony, Horrendous, Augury, StarGazer 

Track Listing:

1. Forged From Bedlam
2. Undaunted Hereafter
3. Disenthralled
4. Fracturing Proclivity
5. Floods Within A Splintered Cortex
6. Larker, Sanguine Phantom
7. Despot Of Amorphic Dominions
8. Animus Reflection