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Thaumaturgy - Pestilential Hymns
Thaumaturgy’s Pestilential Hymns is hands down, pure festering death metal filth with no polish & no pretense, just rot and ruin. Out now through Memento Mori, this Kansas trio sound like they’ve been locked in a tomb for a decade and came out speaking in riffs that ooze contagious disease. It’s grim, suffocating, and fucking addictive.
From the first seconds of “Neuroticism Triumphant,” it’s obvious Thaumaturgy aren’t fucking around. The guitars crawl like maggots through old flesh, drums swing between ritual and chaos, and KT’s vocals open like a corpse learning to breathe again. “The Oncologist’s Hymn” claws its way forward, blending doom soaked atmosphere with deranged tempo shifts that feel otherworldly.
“The Shadow Approaches” might just be the standout on this record, a haunting descent that hits like a dream you can’t wake up from. Then when “Plague Ritual” hits (which lives up to its name), it shows the ugly yet somewhat beautiful side of things, hateful and fucking heavy as hell. When tracks “An Ignominious End” and “Forced March” close things out, the album’s fully collapsed into delirium with riffs turning to static, drums to thunderous batters & everything bleeding together in this grotesque, beautiful mess.
What makes Pestilential Hymns so killer? There’s no gloss, no digital perfection, just raw energy and conviction. The sound of a band channeling every ounce of rage and rot they’ve got. And in a sea of sterile modern death metal, that’s exactly what makes Thaumaturgy dangerous.
Words by FuegoCasa.