Everybody was once most probably ready to listen to what Nekus‘ followup to closing 12 months’s large debut 2LP Sepulchral Divination was once gonna sound like. Neatly, the wait is over, here’s the follow-up album Demise Apophenia in its complete, colossal glory, a complete day forward of its unencumber the next day to come:
Loopy to reckon that this monster took just a 12 months after its predecessor to look the sunshine. You’d determine the crushing magnitude of 2023’s double LP Sepulchral Divination would take years to overcome, and as an alternative it took Nekus lower than a 12 months to near that bankruptcy and open a brand new one this is more potent in each sense. This will provide you with a transparent thought on what stage of ambition this band dwells on.
OK, so what’s higher then? Neatly, via now you’ve already hit play at the participant above and will simply listen to your self, however principally, Demise Apophenia is best than its predecessor in each side conceivable. It’s a majestic and bold undertaking with a multidimensional high quality to it, as it’s so articulated, overbearing and enveloping this is turns out to occupy house in all 3 its primary dimensions, showing in a single phrase, inescapable.
As soon as once more the strategic part round which all rotates here’s the overbearing use of reverb, which the band works like clay to recreate its mortiferous and sepulchral atmospheres that make the listener really feel like they’ve been entombed into a large subterranean shrine. Nekus have been nonetheless negotiating the talent on Sepulchral Divination (which now and then suffered from a winded out and washed out guitar assault because of the insane ranges of reverb used), however on Demise Apophenia they’ve really mastered the artwork of reverberation, growing an utter beast within the studio with a fully implementing and tight manufacturing price the place the reverb is not only sitting on best of the combo as an added impact, however is built-in inside it, making a harrowing sense of spatial oppressiveness.
The riffs this time round come bellowing out of the combo with unseen readability like implacable demise sentences, lumbering forth with behemoth-like strides and crushing the listener underneath deadly quantities of comments in distortion. It seems that as though Nekus have bridged an opening right here between entities who revel into horrific droning and summary agony like Grave Upheaval, and extra articulated and riff focused death-doom acts like Spectral Voice. Discovering this clever heart floor has each made Nekus’ experimental facet extra concise, simple and simple to revel in, and their stellar penchant for catchy riff-making way more cryptic, horrific and underground-sounding. The place Spectral Voice dilate tempos and create atmospherics with blank passages and orchestration, Nekus as an alternative maintain that line of industrial with oppressive comments and droning amplifier torture which in the end makes them sound like a mix between Sunn O))) and Krypts.
Demise Apophenia is formally out the next day to come November 15 2024 by means of Sentient Wreck international (get it HERE or HERE).
