Anticreation's Purifying Horror Materializes on "Kathagiasis" (Video Premiere)

Intensity and aggression alone only go so far in crafting actually frightening music. To achieve the sort of terror that Anticreation have manifested on their upcoming album “From the Dust of Embers” — a gnawing void so potent it seems to snuff out light — conviction is the key. The Greek outfit delivers black and death metal, often at doom metal’s agonizing pace, packed with painfully morbid motifs and spine-tingling, hair-raising vocals. They execute this with an air of blasphemous inversion, taking a malicious look at faith and religion that’s reverent in its own bizarre way. We’re premiering the video for “Kathagiasis” now, which showcases this sinister solemnity:

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“Kathagiasis” means ‘sanctification’ in Greek, but what’s going on in this track is probably anything but. In the video, strange lighting flickers across statues and artifacts while particularly heavy and slow riffs join up with deep, monasterial chanting in the song itself. It’s not exactly a minimalist affair, but Anticreation take great care to focus their sound, eliminating any extra threads that could interfere with their unholy work. The attention to detail and consistency is what makes this all work. Stepping into the world of “Kathagiasis” is a passage into a fully-formed separate plane of existence — one that hates you.

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From the Dust of Embers releases July 8th via Sentient Ruin and Nuclear Winter Records.