Today, Japanese death-doom monolith
Anatomia stream the entirety of their highly anticipated fourth album,
Corporeal Torment , at
Decibel magazine's website . Set for international release on May 20th via
Me Saco Un Ojo Records and
Dark Descent Records on vinyl LP and CD formats, respectively, hear
Anatomia 's
Corporeal Torment in its entirety exclusively
HERE .
By now,
Anatomia should require little introduction. For nearly 20 years, this Japanese cult have explored the darkest and most deranged ends of the death-doom spectrum. Theirs is a sound that's intrinsically tied to tradition yet evinces a wealth of weirdness, making their sound both classic and challenging in equal measure. And while their countless split recordings are beloved by the band's ever-growing legions of fans, it is
Anatomia 's full-lengths where they truly dive into the deep end, exploring subterranean expanses of the subconscious and sound itself, making each of their three judiciously-spaced-apart albums unique experiences unto themselves.
The same can be said for
Anatomia 's long-awaited fourth album,
Corporeal Torment . Although it's been merely four years since the critically acclaimed
Cranial Obsession - that span of time rather quick between
Anatomia albums -
Corporeal Torment offers a more concise and daresay "energetic" counterpart to its epically mammoth predecessor. Then again, with tempos rarely kicking above a sludgy gallop as set forth by early heroes Autopsy, it's not long before second track "Slime of Putrescence" drags the listener well and truly into the void of nulled-senses atmospherics. Indeed,
Anatomia 's grasp of mesmerizing mood and dynamics they so masterfully displayed across the aforementioned predecessor is flexed even more fully on
Corporeal Torment : more extremes between crushing and quiet, BPMs often dialed back into the negatives, and reverberating textures that occasionally recall
musique concrète . In fact, the slipstream of energy into inertia as the album throbs onward becomes a vortex that's nigh impossible to escape...but perhaps that was never an option when one steps into
Anatomia 's claustrophobic cocoon of death-doom. No hyperbole and no hope,
Corporeal Torment is punctuation to the end.
Hear all of it for yourself exclusively
HERE , courtesy of
Decibel , North America's only monthly metal magazine. Preorder info can be found
HERE at
Me Saco Un Ojo 's Bandcamp. Cover and tracklisting are as follows: