Label: Unsigned/Independent
Origin: Minsk, Belarus
Belarussian newcomers Sacrilegious Profanity defiantly bury their extreme metal hatchet in the sacrificial chopping block of mundane genre mainstays. Loading ritualistic steel into cold-hearted chambers, Genocide Rituals is a bloodthirsty collection of Satanic supplications that shoots cartridges of blackened sludge into the hearts and minds of the masses.
Opening track “Life Abomination” marks the introduction of the wicked ceremony with an ominous omnibus of orchestral symphonics, which return in the conclusive track to bookend the unholy anthology. Battle-ridden tom-toms support the ceremonial altar, and wormholed guitars slowly cool into the calcified veins that ripple through the massive stone. The deliberate attention to mid-tempo heaviness sans blasting highlights the sheer metamorphic density Sacrilegious Profanity offers, and rips a batholith of much-needed heterogeneity through the rest of Genocidal Rituals.
Subsequent tracks evoke more advanced complexities in musical composition and tempo variations. “Necroritual of Immortality” draws the magic pentacle and the listener’s blood with a single shriek, before plodding power chords chant down-tuned invocations to Lucifer. Percussive choices and vocal deliveries are diverse: the former enticing elemental lightning with splash and stack cymbals, and the latter broadcasting angry sermons in a host of frequencies. Third track “Unholy Witchery (Devil Invocation)” repeatedly plunges the sorcerer’s staff deep into the listener’s chest in a series of chunky, coagulated iron riffs. Sanguine gore cascades down the granitic flanks of the sacrificial stone in a bubbling waterfall of salivating minor licks, as the listener loses consciousness from a final driven power chord. Entering the ethereal state, orchestral strings soundtrack the recesses of Hell, and wretched souls scream in agony whilst a steady voice utters evil invocations.
Zodiac Sign of Apocalypse (22:03 - 33:47) Sacrilegious Profanity - Genocide Rituals (Full Demo) - YouTube
Standout track “Zodiac Sign of Apocalypse” bleats through the carnage in a slow and deliberate riff-fest in the style of Archgoat. Heavily distorted and infectiously catchy hooks are hung throughout the hateful forest, beckoning even the skin-shredded, chest-ruptured victim’s bony fingers towards the volume knob. Death-defying shrieks upshift the track, grinding the gears into soaring black metal acceleration, until the track stalls to reignite the burnt rubber misery. Instrumental passages gallop forward on the cusp of mounting thunderous power, and throat-shredding growls inject hoarse premonitions to the next listener stepping hoof into the pent-ultimate ceremonial circle.
Revered lead single “Worlds Devoured” enacts the final chapter of the infernal ritual. Opening as a fast-paced whirlwind of blackened thunder, the music resets to allow raspy, raw shrieks to ride on the backs of fading chords. Where “Zodiac Sign of the Apocalypse” is heavy, final track “Damned Void” is a molten-core fed, gravity-sucking river of volcanic ore. Crushing riffs pulse from the guitar’s neck into the waiting body of orchestral instruments, forming the symphonic closure of the Luciferian rite.
Genocidal Rituals gathers rapturous listeners for a sizzling sacrificial experiment of extreme metal branding. By ripping the starter chord of Satanic lust to awaken devious growls and down-tuned, pummeling riffage, Sacrilegious Profanity ruthlessly chainsaws through competition in this tremulous, tremendously magmatic demo.
FFO: Archgoat, Gorgoroth, Behexen, Satanic Warmaster