Release Date: 17 May 2024
Label: Profound Lore Records (Code 7)
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 843563173886
Genres: Hard Rock & Metal  Death Metal  
Release Date: 17 May 2024
Label: Profound Lore Records (Code 7)
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 843563173886
Genres: Hard Rock & Metal  Death Metal  
Description
With their last/debut album "Paradox", Nocturnus founder/sci-fi death metal godfather Mike Browning (also original Morbid Angel co-founder) would resurrect Nocturnus lore under its new alteration NOCTURNUS AD which gave Browning the opportunity to finally continue the mythos that came before with the legendary album "The Key" almost 30 years after the release of one of the most influential death metal albums of all time. The result being NOCTURNUS AD's debut album "Paradox" being the proper follow-up to "The Key" (musically and thematically) where the story of Dr. Magus would finally see its sequel three decades later.
The new NOCTURNUS AD album "Unicursal" sees Browning and band continue the journey of Dr. Magus following the events of "Paradox". Now armed with his bio suit, on "Unicursal" Dr. Magus is sent on a mission to traverse through the Spheres of the the Kabbalistic Tree Of Life to conquer each sphere and collect its respective sigil/symbol. "Unicursal" will see Dr. Magus specifically travel to Malkuth, Yesod, Hod, and Netzach, the Tree's lower realm, its roots (the story of Dr. Magus is featured on the album's second half where the album's first half will continue to explore ancient occult themes and mysteries from the unknown, separate from Dr. Magus' story).
Evidently "Unicursal" is not only one of the most ambitious undertakings Browning has been involved with, but it is a formidable display of progressive occult metal wizardry that manifests NOCTURNUS AD as one of the most singular forces in extreme metal today; there truly is no other entity akin and "Unicursal" is another monolith that honours and continues the tradition and lore laid down with "The Key" and continued with "Paradox". With blistering guitar manifestations courtesy of Koblak and Heftel, Holdren's grand and epic synth passages and Browning holding down the rhythm with his calculated battery along with his unique commanding chants, "Unicursal" is a towering aeonic manifestation, extraordinary sci-fi otherworldly death metal forging itself through time and space.
Tracklisting
Mitochondrion
Cosmic Putrefaction
Man's Gin
Spectral Wound
Antichrist Siege Machine
Bell Witch
Mefitis
Mother of Graves
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