abstruse obscurantist technical deathsters Eximperitus streaming "Utpāda" ahead of 2021 album Šahrartu

Eximperitus is technical death metal with themes of "Sumerian/Babylonian mysticism, occultism, annihilation, death," as Metal Archives puts it. As fans of the genre will notice, Metal Archives lists Nile as the first name in the category of "similar artists." What it means is that it is technically proficient death metal but there is a component of adding more than wrist-breaking, arthritis-causing guitar wizardry, blasting drums and growling. In other words, the technicality is there in abundance but it is not the only thing that is important. The music seeks to have more imagination, more atmosphere than just assaulting the instruments at the highests speeds possible. The band is not afraid to slow down and offer a bit of melody to the blasting extreme metal. As you will see from the information below, the band has a gimmick or two that has gotten them some attention, but regardless of whether you consider the gimmicks as a real thing or as basic metal music marketing, the music by itself is rather interesting and deserves some serious consideration from fans looking for a tech-death band that has asked themselves the question, "What else is there besides playing fast, complicated brutal music? Once we have become very good at playing fast, what else is there that we want to do? There has to be more to death metal besides just being good at playing fast, right?!" Yes, correct. Consider this album as the ongoing quest to take impossibly fast extreme metal into a different way of thinking while keeping things blazing and brutal. -Metal Bulletin Zine

Eximperitus

Šahrartu

Willowtip Records

29 January 2021

ABOUT: Belarusian occult technical death metal band EXIMPERITUS will release their second full-length album Šahrartu in early 2021 on Willowtip Records. EXIMPERITUS (shortened from Eximperituserqethhzebibšiptugakkathšulweliarzaxułum) invoke the magic of ancient gods for six rituals of complex, forward-thinking brutality. Šahrartu not only brings EXIMPERITUS to a new level, but pushes boundaries of death metal beyond imagination. Willowtip Records will release Šahrartu January 29 on CD, digital and vinyl. Pre-order the album below.

Hailing from Minsk, Belarus, EXIMPERITUS takes its name from dead languages of the Ancient East. The band was formed in 2009 and released its first demo - Triumpho Tenebrarum In Profundis Mors – in 2011. Two years later the band released another demo, Promo 2013. In 2016, EXIMPERITUS released its debut full-length, Projecting the Singular Emission of the Doctrine of Absolute and All-Absorbing Evil…, on Japanese label Amputated Vein Records. Despite its provocative and perplexing lyrical concepts, the album was highly-acclaimed by listeners and critics, receiving rave reviews in numerous webzines and music issues around the world. The album proved EXIMPERITUS to be a band capable of creating a detailed, conceptual universe consisting of sophisticatedly composed music with inexpressible majestic atmosphere. The debut was followed in 2017 by W2246-0525, an EP that showcased the next step in EXIMPERITUS’ evolution. As work began for another full-length album, the band released a single titled "Tahâdu" in 2019. The song showed continued progression in the band’s sound and song-crafting and captured the attention of a growing legion of fans. EXIMPERITUS then signed with Willowtip Records for the release of Šahrartu. The album is a grandiose and majestic representation of a new era of death metal being ushered in by EXIMPERITUS.

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