Album Review: Sxuperion – Auscultating Astral Monuments (Bloody Mountain Records)

Like stars that melt before your eyes, another album of sonic oblivion appears from the Sxuperion universe. Step inside this new chapter and strap into the cockpit of chaos as you witness the aural invasion of deep space cannons echoing throughout eternity. The Architects say that it’s a long ride to the event horizon and back again. It may even take…. forever.

Auscultating Astral Monuments will be available on digital, CD, and vinyl formats on June 25th, 2021 via Bloody Mountain Records.

Cosmically induced blackened death metal, Auscultating Astral Monuments is an album of otherworldly horrors. From the moment the raw, guttural and grim sound of Astral Silence rings out to the crunchy pounding of impending doom in the form of The Mote in God’s Eye to the terrifying atmosphere created by Initiative Reactor to the widespread disgust created by the gloomy and haunting heaviness of Forever and Ever. Sxuperion hold you down and vomit Auscultating Astral Monuments into your very soul.

It is harsh to the ears, the weight of the instruments alongside the growling, throaty vocals makes that clear. However, the subtle touches of atmosphere here and there make it more pleasant. Especially if the darker side of metal runs through your veins. If it does, this is an album that helps things pump along.

Then you throw in the cosmic angle which is something that does shine through in a less ‘progressive’ way than you might expect. It’s the darker side of the universe, the absence of light and colour. All encompassing, suffocating and very haunting. It is an experience well worth having.

Sxuperion – Auscultating Astral Monuments Full Track Listing:

1. Astral Silence
2. Eyes of Gangkhar
3. Ophanim Mechanical Drive
4. Irreverential Cisterns
5. The Mote in God’s Eye
6. Licentious Arbitrator
7. Initiative Reactor
8. Philotic Astrogation
9. Forever and Ever

Links

Bloody Mountain Records