Exclusive Premiere: Enter the “Tomb of the Necrolith” with Funerelic’s Sinister New Track
In just a couple weeks, a new and uncompromising split EP featuring two of the Pacific Northwest’s more menacing black/death acts will be upon us. Abyssal Synodality, featuring Besotten and Funerelic, will bring into the world four new tracks that seek to plumb the depths of spiritual enlightenment through congress with the dead.
That’s all to say that we’re excited to premiere one of the two tracks from Funerelic’s half of the EP, titled “Tomb of the Necrolith.” Clocking in at just over four minutes in length, you can hit play below and see how this composition is just as happy grinding your face into a fine paste as it is dragging you through the dark Oregon forests.
From the near constant barrage of blast beats and fury found throughout most of the song, to the drag down doomy segment almost smack dab in the middle, the whole song has a sort of oppressive feel that you’d expect from a modern black/death band that’s lived in a part of the U.S. that sees clouds and rain for most of the year.
With the EP being described by both bands as a “joint voyage through the realm of the dead to unlock the secrets of spiritual enlightenment – or eternal torment,” this track sounds like that part in any good horror flick where shit’s gotta get real bad before anything even resembling closure comes to pass.
But you don’t have to take my ramblings about what I feel listening to the track, as the band itself said “Tomb of the Necrolith” has a part to play in the EP’s overarching theme.
“The Necrolith is the ultimate monument to the keeper of the dead. Buried deep within its walls are ancient and lost secrets guarded by a maelstrom of malefic energy, and ‘Tomb of the Necrolith’ takes you on this journey below. The song starts off with a punch and goes into a section that perfectly emulates this descent. The next passage is as chaotic as the screams about “black storms” suggest, only for it to abruptly end in slow, doom-evoking devastation.
“The building dark harmony preludes the song’s gloomy guitar solo. Then, as if returning back up the steps of the tomb, the chaotic whirlwind crashes back in and ends with the riff that enthralled you at the beginning.”
The Abyssal Synodality Split EP will be released on March 8, but you can preorder your copy either at Bandcamp or through Statanik Royalty Records.
Abyssal Synodality Track Listing:
- BESOTTEN – Anothered
- BESOTTEN – Subterranean Realms Of Excutiation
- FUNERELIC – Tomb Of The Necrolith
- FUNERELIC – Devoured in Obsidian Flame
