Anthropic Rites Of Sublimation

Description

The German cult of black/death Ch'ahom offers on the altar of sacrifice their second album "Anthropic Rites of Sublimation," a concept album set in a fictional world inspired by the rituals, art, and architecture of pre-Hispanic cultures. Continuing where their EP "Ts'ono'ot" left off, its story unfolds around a cenote of impossible dimensions, whose cosmic call attracts the lost and the uncertain towards self-sacrifice. Four civilizations rise along its edge, each developing its own rites, hierarchies, and monuments to transform the fatal invocation of the abyss into the foundation of collective existence. Ch'ahom shapes this imagined world through cavernous death metal, bestial eruptions, and feverishly progressive structures. Wild riffs weave through suffocating chambers of rhythmic conjuration while ancient instruments emerge from the tumult like echoes within a buried temple. "Anthropic Rites of Sublimation" moves like the cenote itself, drawing the listener into an ecstatic and ever-deepening sense of the unknown. Inspired by a deliberately literal interpretation of the death drive and its sublimation, Ch'ahom explores culture as a response to an irresistible desire for self-erasure. Mutilation, proxy sacrifice, enslavement, and voluntary surrender become the foundations of competing societies awaiting the periodic opening of the cenote. Ch'ahom transforms this dark fiction into a vast sonic ritual, depicting humanity through its terrifying ingenuity: creating faith, beauty, and entire civilizations on the brink of annihilation. - Second album by Ch'ahom from Germany, the first album was with Sentient Ruin Laboratories - Strange Death Metal set in a fictional world inspired by Mayan culture - Vinyl edition includes a double-sided 24x24 poster. CD in digipak with fold-out insert. - FFO: Timeghoul, Demilich, Profanatica, Tzompantli, Genocide Shrines, Gorguts, Volahn 1. Cult of Xaman 2. Reign of Nohol 3. Priests of Lik'in 4. Chik'in's Chosen 5. Insemination