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Occult black metal is a wily beast with an unpredictability tantamount to Madonna’s ever morphing hair color and it is futile to prognosticate as to where it will spring up on the far reaches of planet Earth. Like summoned demons rising up from the thermal geological hot springs that surround it, SXUPERION has risen in the small town of Mammoth Lakes, CA which exists as the epicenter for the bestial war metal that has gestated in this madman’s mind since this debut EP entered out dimension in 2011. The Sierra Nevada mountain range that separates California’s Central Valley from the high elevations of the Great Basin in Nevada will never be the same.
SATANIC IDOL WORSHIP sprang forth in 2011 to haunt the world with seven tracks of lo-fi inter-dimensional sonic outbursts of bestial wrath created solely by Lord SXUPERION himself. Fortified for the love of all things science fiction based and even more for all things occult, SATANIC IDOL WOSHIP bows to the alter of the dark forces with six darkened hymns followed by the title track. Following in the footsteps of the war mongers of yore such as Blasphemy, Archgoat and the legion of war metal soldiers who have come and gone, SXUPERION distinguishes himself with a knack for embedding a number of field samples, avant-garde musical scales and experimental themes of transcendence into the darkened dimensions behind the scenes.
Undulating waves of bestial black metal bombast, tremolo guitar passages accented by blastbeats and zigzagging musical motifs lay waste to hope, extinguish light and foster the ultimate fear, dread and despair with the power of funeral doom metal only amplified by the bestial brutality of a black metal deviancy. Crushing and torturous sonic demons resonate from the open pits of hell to haunt and slay the angelic guardians that stand between salvation and the ultimate surrender to the dark forces that attack from every conceivable angle. That which has not only been lost in the fiery pits of hell but are here to incinerate every microcosm of illumination and your soul will be digested and incorporated into the building blocks of the darkest masters awaiting. Dramatic flares of black metal fury banter and wane into ethereal surrealism where choirs chant the unchantable and Satanic portals are punctured into the fabric of space-time.
After six terrifying hymns of utter bleakness that exercise the careful constructs that walk the thin line between unbridled beastial brutality and darkened ritual ambience, this eerily effective EP that will sear your soul closes with one of the most darkened atmospheric conclusions that i’ve encountered on a black metal album. As the sun rises and the dark forces retreat to the ethers that surround as the album ends, nigh are the forces that unexpectedly devour the energies of ascension and consume the carcasses of care. SXUPERION’s mission has only begun and yet the forces of evil have grown strong. This is the soundtrack to the demonic plagues that have usurped control, a world where the dark magus waves one magic wand and the army of the soulless behave as one. Welcome to the world of SXUPERION.