Anarkhon continues to push its boundaries toward the atmospheric spectrum of blackened death metal. The music sounds otherworldly and expands on the previous album. The trio manages to deliver plenty of delirious atmospheric moments on the album’s opener “Deliberate Chaos Caused by Violation of the Laws of Nature”, an evil crescendo rendering the signature sound of the gigantic percussion beats and the guitar riffs. Lifeless hollow growls reflect the soulless nature of the other worldliness, the guitars build on horrific riffs and brutal pace shifting to blast beats. The guitar tone is heavier and the song structure instills a feeling of unease with the slow doomy composition, the trio has perfected its atmosphere on the fifth album.

“Levitating Among Unspeakable Cosmic Anomalies” balances the slower moments where the drums deliver ultimate brutality, and the spectral growls manifest the framework adding more textures. The shrewd utilization of the lead guitars at the end of the track enhances the dark mood of this song. There also seems an emphasis on peculiar and obscure melodies that becomes a catchy element as a result the fifth album shows the quality level and consistency. The guitars on the next track “The Devourer of Eons Manipulates the Inanimate Puppet Called Man” erupts in a blaze of brutal fury capturing the mid-paced demonic atmosphere of a morbid style of death metal.

Although most of the songs begin awkwardly with peculiar intros it is precisely in these moments when the guitars inflict the cosmic dread upon the listener drawing an analogy between slow monstrous death metal riffs and straight-up blast beats. This trick seems to be overused on the album, the guitar department offers consistency bringing demonic growls mixed with a range of doom-laden riffs and heavy-paced drums. The track titles are quite a mouthful though, and they somehow remind me of the band Bal-Sagoth. Despite the cavernous framework of songs like “Whispering the Mantra of Death in Horrendous Ecstasy” there is a dominant tone that is very hollowly pitched in the guitars and guttural growls. Anarkhon has mastered new ways to perfect the atmosphere by boasting vicious melodic guitar patterns.

Once these patterns come to play the focus is immediately shifted into dreadful guitar chords and constant cyclonic changes in the pace carried out through slow ungodly rhythms. The hair-raising viciousness of the cavernous growls in “The Colossal Deformed Hallucination Distort and Violates the State of Entropy” unfolds new trademarks that display the approach to song structure. Anarkhon keeps things very thrilling and engaging with the drumming work building on brutal fluxes of the double bass the riffing reflects the dark pandemonium. The earth-shattering blast beats on “The Aura of Extinction” launch into a straight-up fast-paced section, and there is enough brutality heard from the drums, the guitars, and the devilish growls.

“Dissolution of the Firmament Through the Wrath of Spectral Emanations” improvised by the catchy rhythm guitar hooks, this six minute track is laden with creepy mysterious atmospheres of cosmic dread which is the central theme of the album. Anarkhon has probed deeply into the menacing nature of brutal death metal, and the atmospheric section of the album adds a lot of textures. “Obiasot Dwybat Ptnotun” is a dark and gripping album that sounds really menacing and maintains plenty of slow brooding moments for fifty-four minutes. Anarkhon prefers to unleash its demonic force by putting a spell on the listener and once you find yourself meandering through the colossal depths of the Lovecraftian universe you will face the menacing wrath of the demonic entities.

Despite the long title of the final track “Only Being in a State of Total Delirium Will You Be Able to Pronounce the Name of the Unfathomable Nightmare” the trio gives a bewildering exhibition of their skills, range, and complexity. The track begins with an eerie quietness of the guitar effects and premonitions of the spectral surrounding before the drums unleash antediluvian eruptions. The bursting percussion creates a gigantic wall of sound droning you into a vast cosmic sphere of darkness and the brutality of the intense riffing ejecting wave upon wave of sonic fury banishing your soul away into the void.

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