TEHOM - The Merciless Light CD

BLOOD HARVEST RECORDS is proud to present on CD format R.I.P., the split album between TAPHOS NOMOS and URÐUN. Originally released earlier this year on limited-edition cassette, R.I.P. showcases two rottenly fresh newcomers in the international death metal underground. TAPHOS NOMOS are up first, offering three five-minute tracks. Hailing from the US, theirs is a restlessly roiling sound, moving from festering doomed-out death to a more uptempo-yet-angular sort that retains a uniquely lurking menace. With an EP and two demos already to their name, TAPHOS NOMOS are quickly becoming a diabolic force to be reckoned with, and here on R.I.P., they get the gutted production their fetid filth so requires. For their part, Iceland's URÐUN are no less filthy, offering five comparatively quicker tracks rounded out by an Autopsy cover, but charge forward with a thick 'n' viscous Metal of Death. They match well here with TAPHOS NOMOS since they frequentBLOOD HARVEST RECORDS is proud to present the highly anticipated debut album of Sweden's TEHOM, The Merciless Light. With a lineup whose roots run deep in the Swedish underground for the past 20+ years, TEHOM mainline that combined experience into a beast of blackened death metal as fresh as it is timeless. With all but a demo prior - also titled The Merciless Light, but released in 2011 and at half the length and in rawer form - on the debut album The Merciless Light, the duo took their time to finesse and fine-tune their sound into one that spans decades without bearing the stench of "retro" tedium. It's proudly and mercilessly DEATH METAL, but blackened in a most barbaric manner, gnarly and gnawing and knowing no respite, but never forgetting the iron-fisted fundamentals of harnessing chaos into streamlined form. Indeed, the art of TEHOM in general and The Merciless Light in particular is chaos gnosticism given flesh; the lyrics are thoroughly researched and even-more-thoroughly practiced. As the death metal coven explains of their lyrics, "Mythic truths from the realm of Tehom and Tiamat, the male and female aspects of the ancient Abyss and the howling Void, the Ur-Drakon, the Urgrund of the Beyond. The open vortex and raging nexus wherein the Black and the Red Dragon coils entwined, eternally seething and dreaming, within and without, beyond and between as captured by the spiritual warrior-mages of this coven via the medium of Satanic death metal. Hymn of praise to the communicating Vessels, the fruits of the Tree. Let the world and those you leave behind be the stepping-stones of your transcendence. Let us therefore drink perdition´s wine to seal the oath and never return to these forsaken shores again! Praised be our Father Opposer! Blessed be our Mother Destroyer!" Now, prepare to bask in The Merciless Light as TEHOM lead you into oblivion - and beyond! ly dip into doom, especially on the epic "Grafir & Bein," but URÐUN's expertise is pure, pustulent headbanging DEATH. With just a demo to their name so far, R.I.P. serves as a righteous introduction to their deathlier side of Iceland. Behold TAPHOS NOMOS and URÐUN and let 'er R.I.P.!