CH’AHOM: German Black/Death Metal Faction To Release Second LP, Anthropic Rites Of Sublimation, September 18th Through 20 Buck Spin; “Cult Of Xaman” Single And Preorders Posted

photos by Schwarze Leere

German black/death cult CH’AHOM joins the 20 Buck Spin roster to offer upon the altar of sacrifice their second album, 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 Schwarz.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.

**The lead preview of CH’AHOM’s Anthropic Rites Of Sublimation arrives in the form of the album’s opening track, “Cult Of Xaman,” now playing on YouTube HERE and Bandcamp HERE.**

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 insert on September 18th. Preorders are now live at the label webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE.