SEPULCHRAL - Beneath The Shroud
Release Date: December 5th, 2025
Soulseller Records
SEPULCHRAL are a Spanish death metal band who will be releasing their 2nd album "Beneath The Shroud" on December 5th, 2025 through Soulseller Records. The band features members: Dusk on bass and vocals, Gaueko on vocals and Gorka on guitars and drums. The album also features guest solos by Pestilence Breeder.
Like a fermenting mound of decaying matter the album initially immerses us in its death-stench with, "A Pact Written In Bone Dust". Seeping out of the corpse with subtlety. A slow, rising aroma to let us know what we are about to partake in despite its differing style to the 2nd track, "Beneath The Shroud". This song is an ugly bombardment of ghastliness. A stripped-bare entity of old-school sounding death metal. Nothing to be heard except a haggardly wonderful disgustingness. "Abandoned Feretrum" takes things a step lower with a fleshy decomposition withering into nothingness. Mild punkish beats and chordal movements lend the listener no additional attributes save the basic necessities needed.
The fourth song, "Conflagration Of Sacred Bones" is a ripening journey of putrid aromas. One can hear the flies basking in celebratory jubilation. Beastly grotesqueness marked by an effective violent simpleness that makes the sound all the more brutal. "Torchless Crossroads" has a beginning akin to a funeral march. Slow and menacing with wicked undertones before an unleashing of savage furiousness. Pure in the sense of old-school style but not of heart. I love the middle to end part that would cater to lovers of doom metal. Next, "Cloaked Spectres" unleashes an abraded and malformed strike. Abrasive and obscenely contrived with a forcefully spewed hatred of the righteous. "From The Crypt, The Putrid Mist" begins with a cavernous venture into darkened surroundings. A mid-paced beginning turns viciously vulgar with a speedy onslaught before returning to a doomy idea 3/4 the way through. Ending strong, the crude charge returns to finish the job. Like a whirlwind of punishing demonic forces, "Blood, Phlegm, Black Bile" is a testament to an impure raid on the weak and strong alike. Washing over all with bone snapping efficiency. Leaving the distressed in a mass of huddled horror awaiting deliverance. "Gravestone Covenant" chugs into being before delivering more punkish attitude previously heard. Plastering the landscape with a gore infused decor that owns the intended savagery. With the ending the band does add a diversity to their sound, expanding into other feels that compliment the material as a whole. The second to last song, "Poison Wind" continues with the sound already sought and achieved. Arousing revulsion, the shortest of the non-introduction songs leaves us offended in disgusting brilliance. Lastly, "Lost In Ruins" pulsates with putrescent amazement. Within the bowels of this horrid experience we are reminded of the eventual ending to come. Cascading rivers of blood providing the visualization of the malicious butchery that was the catalyst for our demise.
For fans of an old-school death metal sound that do not like anything remotely pretty.
www.facebook.com/sepulchraldeathmetal
www.soulsellerrecords.com
Release Date: December 5th, 2025
Soulseller Records
SEPULCHRAL are a Spanish death metal band who will be releasing their 2nd album "Beneath The Shroud" on December 5th, 2025 through Soulseller Records. The band features members: Dusk on bass and vocals, Gaueko on vocals and Gorka on guitars and drums. The album also features guest solos by Pestilence Breeder.
Like a fermenting mound of decaying matter the album initially immerses us in its death-stench with, "A Pact Written In Bone Dust". Seeping out of the corpse with subtlety. A slow, rising aroma to let us know what we are about to partake in despite its differing style to the 2nd track, "Beneath The Shroud". This song is an ugly bombardment of ghastliness. A stripped-bare entity of old-school sounding death metal. Nothing to be heard except a haggardly wonderful disgustingness. "Abandoned Feretrum" takes things a step lower with a fleshy decomposition withering into nothingness. Mild punkish beats and chordal movements lend the listener no additional attributes save the basic necessities needed.
The fourth song, "Conflagration Of Sacred Bones" is a ripening journey of putrid aromas. One can hear the flies basking in celebratory jubilation. Beastly grotesqueness marked by an effective violent simpleness that makes the sound all the more brutal. "Torchless Crossroads" has a beginning akin to a funeral march. Slow and menacing with wicked undertones before an unleashing of savage furiousness. Pure in the sense of old-school style but not of heart. I love the middle to end part that would cater to lovers of doom metal. Next, "Cloaked Spectres" unleashes an abraded and malformed strike. Abrasive and obscenely contrived with a forcefully spewed hatred of the righteous. "From The Crypt, The Putrid Mist" begins with a cavernous venture into darkened surroundings. A mid-paced beginning turns viciously vulgar with a speedy onslaught before returning to a doomy idea 3/4 the way through. Ending strong, the crude charge returns to finish the job. Like a whirlwind of punishing demonic forces, "Blood, Phlegm, Black Bile" is a testament to an impure raid on the weak and strong alike. Washing over all with bone snapping efficiency. Leaving the distressed in a mass of huddled horror awaiting deliverance. "Gravestone Covenant" chugs into being before delivering more punkish attitude previously heard. Plastering the landscape with a gore infused decor that owns the intended savagery. With the ending the band does add a diversity to their sound, expanding into other feels that compliment the material as a whole. The second to last song, "Poison Wind" continues with the sound already sought and achieved. Arousing revulsion, the shortest of the non-introduction songs leaves us offended in disgusting brilliance. Lastly, "Lost In Ruins" pulsates with putrescent amazement. Within the bowels of this horrid experience we are reminded of the eventual ending to come. Cascading rivers of blood providing the visualization of the malicious butchery that was the catalyst for our demise.
For fans of an old-school death metal sound that do not like anything remotely pretty.
www.facebook.com/sepulchraldeathmetal
www.soulsellerrecords.com