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Upon the wretched annihilation of Beastiality in the cursed year of 2024, there arose from the smoldering ashes a force most terrible and divine: TERATUM. With a two-song promo tape the following year to announce their arrival, the Swedish quartet are now set to unleash their first widely available recording: Ordnance of Spiritual Warfare.

Whilst not ditching the blackthrashing mania of Beastiality entirely, TERATUM here conjure a sulfurous storm that runs parallel to their belligerent predecessor, asserting an iron-fisted identity all their own. Indeed, the thrashing is violent, but the BLACK deepens into a malodorous void. Spidery leads instill a sense of the ancient, and songwriting runs from the murderously swift to the moonlit entranced. No influences need be known, but rest assured that they’re OLD – and that Ordnance of Spiritual Warfare actually brings something new to the idiom.

Maniacs for Nifelheim, Desaster, Zemial, Sweden’s Morbid, and Germany’s Poison will surely begin paying obeisance to TERATUM

From Albion and the most unforgiving desolate wilderness, somewhere in the rural areas of the United Kingdom, comes the without a doubt most intriguing artist that we have come across throughout all these years of proudly doing the Devils work.

It is not easy to put words on the discomfort that is SENTIESSENCE, but it could probably best be described as if the audio Witchcraft as summoned by Nebel and Nacht met with the cold and primitive aesthetics of early nineties Black Metal, yet somehow remaining totally unique in a joyless, unnerving brand of Eremitic Night Music.

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