Description
Black vinyl with gatefold cover and insert
Formed in 2004, Execration – a two-piece, at the time – recorded their first demo in 2005: six heavily thrash-inspired songs and a cover of Celtic Frost’s “Into The Crypts Of Rays”. In 2006, original member Jorgen Maristuen returned to the band, and the focus shifted towards death metal. They band then released two EPs and 3 full length albums during the coming 8 years. With glorious reviews ever since their first album and with their previous album, Morbid Dimensions, released in 2014, receiving an Norwegian Grammy the pressure was one for their fifth album. That album was released in the summer of 2017 and it doesn’t mark a dramatic stylistic shift from their previous album. The band comments: “It is our most compact album to-date, shorter and with tighter compositions. It’s catchy, complex, prog-infused and intense all at the same time. The first clear goal for writing ‘Return To The Void’ was to deliver the same kind of dynamic and shifting song-writing in a more condensed to-the-point package. Stripping songs down to their essential core has been a driving force while writing, and it shows – there is not a wasted moment on the album. Ticking it at 42 minutes the album takes the listener through a whirlwind of thrash, death, black, and even heavy metal, fast and slow parts, and the trademark Execration shifts in mood, tempo, and atmosphere. As with the previous two albums, we wanted to capture the feel of a live performance, so all the basic tracks (drums, guitars, bass) were recorded live in our rehearsal studio in Oslo over the course of a weekend. Thematically, the album takes off into outer space, the world of dreams, and philosophic musings on time and space. The album’s seven songs and two instrumental tracks are permeated with the mysteries of the universe, both in lyrical content and concept, and in the music itself. This theme is further brought to life by the magnificent art of Zbigniew M. Bielak that adorns the front cover.”
Track list:
1. Eternal Recurrence
2. Hammers Of Vulcan
3. Nekrocosm
4. Cephalic Transmissions
5. Blood Moon Eclipse
6. Unicursal Horrorscope
7. Through The Oculus
8. Return To The Void
9. Det Uransakelige Dyp