Ænigmatum’s Deconsecrate: Tech-Death Rarely Sounds This Filthy

The YouTube algorithim proves to be wonderfully on-point yet again: the platform just suggested I might enjoy this new full-album stream of Deconsecrate, the sophomore album from Portland’s Ænigmatum. And because I liked the album art, which as a thumbnail appeared to be an H.R. Giger portrait of a uvula, I hit “play,” and Dio bless you, YouTube, ’cause I fucking love this record.

Fortunately, Jeff Treppel, Czar of our weekly ‘Shit That Comes Out Today’ column, is much hipper than I am, and he already had Deconsecrate on his radar. Here’s what he says about it in tomorrow’s edition of the round-up:

“[T]his is tech death. Thankfully, it’s mid-90s Swedish-style tech death and not the coldly clinical variant of the form that sprung up in Canada later on… Their deconstruction of traditional song structure may feel blasphemous, but they unfold their puzzle boxes in a strangely mesmeric way.”

To this wonderful description I would that Ænigmatum, like their 20 Buck Spin labelmates Cerebral Rot, sound disgusting. This album sounds so filthy, it may actually disable your shower and rot all the perishables in your pantry. Really. It’s SO gross. I love it.

Listen to Deconsecrate below. As I said, it comes out tomorrow, Friday, August 13. You can still pre-order it here (physical) or here (digital).