photos by Schwarze Leere
Anthropic Rites Of Sublimation, the unhinged, bizarre, and wholly devastating second LP from German black/death tribe CH’AHOM, is now streaming in its entirety, ahead of its release this Friday on 20 Buck Spin.
CH’AHOM offers upon the altar of sacrifice Anthropic Rites Of Sublimation, a concept album set in a fictional world inspired by the rituals, art, and architecture of pre-Hispanic cultures. Continuing where their Ts’ono’ot EP ended, its story unfolds around a cenote of impossible dimensions whose cosmic call draws the lost and uncertain toward self-sacrifice. Four civilizations rise along its edge, each developing its own rites, hierarchies and monuments to transform the abyss’s fatal summons into a foundation for collective existence.
CH’AHOM gives this imagined world form through cavernous death metal, bestial eruptions and feverishly progressive structures. Savage riffing coils through suffocating chambers of rhythmic conjuration while ancient instrumentation emerges from the tumult like echoes inside a buried temple. Anthropic Rites Of Sublimation moves like the cenote itself, drawing the listener inward through an ecstatic and ever-deepening sense of the unknown.
Inspired by a deliberately literal interpretation of the death drive and its sublimation, CH’AHOM explores culture as a response to an irresistible desire for self-erasure. Mutilation, vicarious sacrifice, enslavement, and willing surrender become the foundations of competing societies awaiting the cenote’s periodic opening. CH’AHOM transforms this dark fiction into an immense ritual of sound, portraying humanity through its terrifying ingenuity: creating faith, beauty, and entire civilizations upon the edge of annihilation.
Recorded and mixed by CH’AHOM, Anthropic Rites Of Sublimation was mastered by Dan Lowndes at Resonance Sound Studio and completed with cover art by Alexander Kavtea, photography by Schwarze Leere, illustrations by Giancarlo Melgar, and lyric sheet by Veturlarum. The album should be a priority for anyone who follows the work of Timeghoul, Demilich, Profanatica, Tzompantli, Genocide Shrines, Gorguts, or Volahn.
Drown in the screeches of your inner callings with CH’AHOM’s Anthropic Rites Of Sublimation, now streaming on YouTube at THIS LOCATION.
20 Buck Spin will release Anthropic Rites Of Sublimation digitally as well as on digipak CD with foldout insert and LP which includes a 24”x24” double-sided poster this Friday, September 18th. Preorders are now live at the label webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE.
“Anthropic Rites Of Sublimation is a welcome second full-length from CH’AHOM and, honestly, a pretty damn strong statement from, in my humble opinion, one of the strongest up-and-comers in the scene. They’ve taken what worked on Knots of Abhorrence and expanded on it without losing that weird, ritualistic quality that made the debut so interesting in the first place. It’s chaotic, psychedelic, technical and, at times, just downright strange. Exactly what the shaman ordered.” – Last Rites
“CH’AHOM delivers a rich conceptual meditation on death and humanity’s attempts to process it on the furious metallic assault of Anthropic Rites Of Sublimation… CH’AHOM’s metaphorical meditation on death and how we as a species grapple with it is twisted, nasty, and hostile in much the same way death itself is, but there’s a beauty to be found in pondering Anthropic Rites Of Sublimation‘s tangled corridors.” – Everything Is Noise
“… they storm from beyond and absorb you into the violent fray… one of the strangest black metal records you’re bound to experience this year, and CH’AHOM inject a long-faded spirit into these songs to make them pump with ghostly life. Which is weird for a record so indebted to death, as this tale of self-destruction makes for a jarring experience both physically and emotionally. It’s an album drawn toward annihilation, and that’s just what it delivers.” – Meat Mead Metal
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