Today, Teutonic death cult Nekus stream the entirety of their highly anticipated debut mini-album, Death Nova Upon the Barren Harvest, at heavily trafficked web-portal NoCleanSinging.com. Set for international release on July 17th via Blood Harvest Records for the CD and cassette tape formats - the 12" vinyl version will be released on August 28th - hear Nekus' Death Nova Upon the Barren Harvest in its entirety exclusively HERE.
A brand-new formation hailing from Germany, it's not surprising that Nekus have thus far been cloaked in darkness: truly, their Metal of Death is bottomless in its depths. To experience this band is to plunge oneself into ichorous, unknowable DARKNESS; it's all-caps DEATH METAL shot straight from (and back into) The Void.
With literally no warning whatsoever, from that Void arrives Nekus' debut recording, Death Nova Upon the Barren Harvest: a title portending its contents to an almost absurd degree. Throughout the course of its four-song/28-minute runtime, Nekus' mini-album pushes and plunders the most desolate expanses of what "death metal" is and especially could be, taking a paradoxically avant-garde approach to total caveman constructions. Riffs do indeed exist here in these expanses, unlike so much other "cavernous" death metal; they blanket and then suffocate the listener with sepulchral horror, as atmospheric as they are attacking. Below-the-gutter/above-the-
Wrapped in a hellishly humid and completely analog production, with suitably shadow-draped artwork to boot, Nekus' Death Nova Upon the Barren Harvest is the glorious beginning of the END.
Fully face that glorious end exclusively HERE, courtesy of NoCleanSinging.com. Preorder info can be found HERE. Cover and tracklisting are as follows:
Tracklisting for Nekus' Death Nova Upon the Barren Harvest
1. Devouring Mills
2. Putrid Harvester
3. Necromancer's Death Chant
4. Dagger of the Corrupter
2. Putrid Harvester
3. Necromancer's Death Chant
4. Dagger of the Corrupter
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