photos by Schwarze Leere
“Priests Of Lik’in” is the ruthless new song from unhinged German black/death cult CH’AHOM. The track is the second single preceding the band’s second album, Anthropic Rites Of Sublimation, nearing release 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.
CH’AHOM’s merciless “Priests Of Lik’in” is 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.
Anthropic Rites Of Sublimation Track Listing:
1. Cult Of Xaman
2. Reign Of Nohol
3. Priests Of Lik’in
4. Chosen Of Chik’in
5. Insemination
CH’AHOM:
A.G.A. – vocals, guitar
A.M. – bass
S.P.S. – lead guitar
G.P. – drums
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