insidethewire
This takes me back to the glory days of early My Dying Bride, Anathema, Paradise Lost, but with modern production.
Favorite track: The Dweller in the Tumulus.
Milo Bloom
Fantastic and devastating death/doom with great songwriting. The guitar tone and the low end here are perfect. Worth picking up and playing very loud.
Favorite track: The Dweller in the Tumulus.
David Dawes
Hailing back to the days of early Death Doom bands like My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost, etc. with plenty of modern feel, monolithic riffage, hopelessness and despair. Enter the darkness now.
The music of Consecration has always been touched by the black hand of despair, draped in shrouds of sadness. Their songs conjure vistas of desolation and paint pale ghosts of agony and loss on backdrops of storm riven twilight skies. They have explored the depths of melancholy and the echoing chambers of the dead and now, with the perfect line-up cemented in place they have discovered the absolute essence of their sound; a fluid coalescence of the rot and decay of ancient death metal and the sombre majesty of doom. The terrors of the tomb and the agonies of bereavement embrace becoming one...becoming Cinis.
The title, Cinis, is taken from the Latin meaning cold ashes and has numerous associations with death, destruction and ruin, extinguished love and burnt out hate. It’s the perfect title for Consecration’s third full length album which takes the listener in a chilling, irresistible embrace and carries them on a haunted odyssey of grief and fear. From the mountainous riffs of opener ‘The Dweller In The Tumulus’, through the ancient crypts of ‘Ground To Ashes (A Cremulation)’ featuring a bloodcurdling guest vocal from Dave Ingram (Benediction, ex-Bolt Thrower) and on into the visceral horrors of ‘The Charnel House’, Cinis is a bleak world to explore, a shadowed dream to wander and an unforgettable listening experience. Daniel Bollans’ evocative vocals are a tumultuous roar, a cold whisper from the other side of death, a blood-choked, guttural invocation or a shrieking cry from an inescapable nightmare. A versatile narrator, he strides through the landscapes created by the guitars of Liam Houseago and Andy Matthews and crawls the lightless deeps carved out by the rhythm section of bassist Shane Amies and drummer Jorge Figueiredo.
Bollans is also responsible for the enthralling artwork which cloaks Cinis, full of references to the unnerving tales within. Meanwhile the job of ensuring that the sound quality of Cinis was a match for its incredible songs and visual presentation was handed over to Greg Chandler (Esoteric, Officium Triste, Convocation etc) whose mastering has drawn every last sanguine drop of power from each tortured note, making Cinis complete – a perfect, dark whole. Now allied with the expertise and experience of Redefining Darkness Records, Consecration are ready to spread their harrowing sounds throughout the world. The new dark age begins on June 17th, when Cinis is set free...
For fans of: Paradise Lost (early) | Hooded Menace | Decomposed | Disembowelment
credits
released June 17, 2022
Consecration is:
Daniel Bollans - Vocals
Shane Amies - Bass
Liam Houseago - Lead, Rhythm and Acoustic Guitars
Andy Matthews - Lead, Rhythm and Acoustic Guitars
Jorge Figueiredo - Drums and Percussion
'Cinis' was recorded and mixed at Blaze Studios during Sept and Oct of 2020
Produced by Raoul Crane & Consecration
Cinis was mastered by Greg Chandler at Priory Studios during Nov and Dec of 2020
All music composed & performed by Consecration
All lyrics written by Daniel Bollans
Special guest vocals on 'Ground to Ashes (A Cremulation) by Dave Ingram
Cover and internal illustration 'The Rotting and the Earth' in charcoal and graphite by Daniel Bollans
Band logo by Daniel Bollans
Band photography by Tine Korhonen at Tina K Photography (tina-k.com)
An outstanding Extreme doom death album, in the best tradition. The funerary atmosphere reminds of Evoken ('Centuries of ooze" bears striking similarities, for my delight). It is overall sharp, dark, hypnotic and unrelenting. One of those rare convincing new bands that hold proud the legacy of the biggest names. Bertrand Marchal
The perfect blend of Swedish and American Death Metal, Sentient Horror have got all the riffs, badass leads and song arrangements to call themselves one of the best in modern Death Metal. AOTY right here. Peter Carparelli
A foreboding black-doom metal dirge, meditating on a dark world caked in ash, resulting from all the Earth’s nuclear arsenal detonating at once. Bandcamp Album of the Day Jun 14, 2018