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Arachnomorph, Schizoramia subphylum benthic predator and filter feeder scavenger, plankton eating swimmer symbiotic with sulfurophagous bacteria Trilobite suddenly emerging from the heat of the Atdabatian seas narrowing of the glabella and cephalon hypostome morphological specialization maintaining high diversity levels throughout the Silurian period filling ecological niches, adaptation decline, divergence and extinction Enigmatic traces of eye structures calcite sub-elliptical exoskeleton articulated transverse segments fused to the pydigium, shielded head rostrum to anchor the cranidium tridents for protection and combat prosopon adorned with finer domes tubes as alimentary ridge networks Single pair of retractible antennae endopodites attached to the coxa vision with elongated prism lenses photoreceptors detecting night and day Thriving in the Iapetus Ocean speciation epitome, metazoan paradigm history marked on its thorax a three hundred million years reign
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Tubular organism with clawed legs spines made up of four nested elements ornamented with minute triangular scales or microscopic circular openings Once reversed, walking on its barbs dark stain as cephalic featurelessness tentacles with hollow tube mouths or appendages to an unknown creature Onychophoran panarthropod affinity distinctive foregut ancestral armature Hallucigenia specimens inverted underneath the lower Cambrian shales
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Deities of impurity - channeling malevolence! Retaliation encircling with ignorance evoking mental derailment A suspiral psychosis! Surrendering to charred flesh hands of demise! Fouled psychic obliteration! Mystischizmatic tunneling the wormholes of annihilation!
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Hallucinatory effects of sonic miasma Emulating A disorienting haze upon psychological torment! Death riding with vengeance! Subsumed by abstruse! Glorified in flesh Blackened spiritual consequences
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Hail all living sacrifice Rotting perverse in psychosis Cruelty is the hand which has created genocide! Supremacy! Over another! Obscenity draped in flesh! Desolated! Barbwire coiling throats with pestilence Massive extinction Throttles jeweds (earth) grounds with desecration - a stygian black abcess! We’re obsessed!

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Two no-guitars death metal bands conspire to create a crushing split album of bass-only subversion of metal music's six-strings-centric conventions. The approach is considerably different, however.
THECODONTION signals a sharp turn for their style, a renewed sound which now features a heavy usage of keyboards and Moog-like synthesizers (courtesy of Stefano Allegretti, guitarist/keyboardist of psychedelic death metal band BEDSORE), adding to their wailing reverberated lead sections, and the inclusion V.P. and L.S. now performing as stable lineup members. The result is an ethereal, atmospheric death metal sound colliding with their double bass grinding clangor.
CEREMENTED instead chooses an in-your-face, stripped down death/doom metal approach with disturbing bass feedbacks and cavernous low grunts. A dripping horror voyage into primal landscapes of annihilation, alternating slower sludgy sections and faster, ultra-distorted bass riffs. A coarse sonic drape heralding the return of this US band after their 2019 split with Malefic Levitation.

THECODONTION's side focuses on two prehistoric marine arthropods which both lived during the Cambrian period (about 520 million years ago): the Trilobite and the Hallucigenia. The former was presumably an ancestor of horseshoe crabs and it existed in oceans for almost 270 million years, surviving the Cambrian extinction all the way to the Permian. The latter was an ancestor of velvet worms and had an eccentric history of study: at first it was thought that this creature walked on its long legs but it has since then been "reversed", its legs being defensive spines on its back instead. The third song "La Torre" is a cover of Italian singer-songwriter Franco Battiato, a massive inspiration for the band and their first foray into clean vocals usage.
CEREMENTED's side deals with destructive forces of nature and cataclysmic events that forever torn away our planet's continuum, the metaphorical force of an extinction which wiped away most living creatures, with only few species surviving.

The cover artwork has been exquisitely executed by Icelandic artist Skaðvaldur (Graveater, Urðun), an abstract depiction of prehistoric invertebrates wallowing amidst the trembling telluric depths of the Earth.

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released April 7, 2023

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THECODONTION
G.E.F. - lead/harsh vocals, songwriting
G.D. - bass, clean vocals on track 3, lyrics, arrangements
L.S. - bass
V.P. - drums
Stefano Allegretti - session keyboards, synths

Recorded and mixed at Le Trombe degli Angeli Studios by Jacopo Gianmaria Pepe

"La Torre" written by Franco Battiato
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CEREMENTED
J.B - bass
K.I - bass
K.B - vocals
A.P - drums

Recorded and mixed by A.P at Desert Dweller Recordings somewhere in Arizona, USA
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All tracks mastered by Jacopo Gianmaria Pepe
Cover art and layout by Skaðvaldur

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Cat. Nr. IVR212

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