#Tetragrammacide

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Tetragrammacide | Typho-Tantric Aphorisms from the Arachneophidian Qur'an | 2023

Indian Black Death Metal

Artwork by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule

[aurademortt]

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[magick-knives]

Tetragrammacide: Typho-Tantric Aphorisms From The Arachnophidian Qur’an

Gatefold Jacket.

Black Vinyl.

Includes a large booklet.

500 Copies.

Iron Bonehead Productions.

[dustedmagazine]

Tetragrammacide — Tantric Aphorisms from the Arachneophidian Qu’ran (Iron Bonehead)

Death metal act Tetragrammacide likes to deal in maximalist gestures. If you think Tantric Aphorisms from the Arachneophidian Qu’ran is a hifalutin mouthful of syllables and concepts, check out a couple of the monikers the band has hung on its songs: “Mandelbrot Scarab of Fractal Manifestation Trapped in the Arachnid Webs, Spun above the Hidden Pathways into Non-Euclidean Interbetweenness” and “Intoxicated Bees of Sekhet-Aarhu Circumambulate the Abode of Self Beheaded One Who Forever Danceth in Her Shaktisexual Ecstasy.” Say what? And also: thanks, dudes. Now I have a baseline schema for what a Mandelbrot Set is (but it’s tough to understand thoroughly without some advanced maths) and that Shaktisexual energy is a thing among the New Age types (marginally more useful knowledge to this intrepid adventurer…). All that is stimulating, and sort of fun, but what does any of it have to do with death metal?

Even after repeated spins of Tantric Aphorisms from the Arachneophidian Qu’ran, this reviewer can provide little enlightenment — though some sort of spiritual experience, likely involving rapacious sexual desire and significant acts of property damage, seems very much at stake in the music. Tetragrammacide is part of the ever-evolving death metal scene in Kolkata, and like fellow West Bengali band Aparthiva Raktadhara, the band seems intent on articulating a malign underside to India’s rich religious and cultic traditions. While the band’s semiotic antics seem superficially more suited to the perversely playful energies of dissonant tech death, on this record Tetragrammacide has pushed further into the black/death aesthetics they have explored for close to a decade.

That is: there is more speed and burl to this music than there is absurd complexity or an acrobatic, linear compositional sense. The riffs ring clear, and the rhythmic are flexible but driving. Tunes like “Fundamental Reconciliation between Maya and Yama through Perpetual Okbish-Ouroboric Cunnilingus” are less bestial, more ecstatic (no shit…). But that’s in the ear of the listener — and Tetragrammacide is taking a chance interweaving terms and concepts like Yama and Qu’ran in India’s current social and cultural climate. Some listeners might find those thought experiments more blasphemous than bestial, or criminally bestial in their blasphemy. In nations like the US or Sweden, adventurous death metal has always been intent on shattering taboos and offending moral sensibilities. In Modi’s India? The stakes of those intents and acts seem a lot higher.

Jonathan Shaw

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Illustration by Orryelle Defenestration-Bascule for Tetragrammacides Sophomore Album

[doktordismemberment]

Tetragrammacide

The first post I saw upon logging into tumblr today was a chick snorting coke off another chick's mons pubis yet when I try to write about the new Tetragrammacide album it flags the post as inappropriate. Interesting.

Suffice it to say the album rips and comes chock full of the craziest "evil word salad" song titles I've ever fucking seen.

For instance:

Mandelbrot Scarab Of Fractal Manifestation Trapped In The Arachnid Webs, Spun Above The Hidden Pathways Into Non-Euclidean Interbetweenness

Shit reads like something out of a 70's era Doctor Strange Comic.

[strangled-with-a-halo]

BLACK METAL BANDS I LIKE

Agriculture Antichrist Siege Machine Asunojokei Cradle of Filth Deafheaven deathandserenity Saidan Sigh Tetragrammacide Trha

and also pretty much anything that is primarily a different genre with some black metal influence (ie blackened crust, blackened screamo, blackened thrash, et cetera)

i wish it was easier for me to describe what black metal i like beyond the somewhat vague "does it have Riffs"

[noumenalroom-deactivated20221021]

“Typhonian Wormholes: Indecipherable Anti​-​Structural Formulæ” - Tetragrammacide - 2021

“Tetragrammacide play black metal, predatory black metal derived from the decaying ruins of ancient Kalikshetra. Our music springs from the shacks of the third world, from the putrid stench of carrion and filth. In our songs you can hear air pollution, burning hunger, economic hardships, diseases and epidemics, unemployment and overpopulation, endless political rifts, violent revolts, endless poverty and famine, dark magic and tantra, all these ingredients end up in our musical potion/poison.”

[thevisualartofmetal]

Artwork by Qayin Mandala GrapHex Tetragrammacide - Third World Esoterrorism (2019) Black/Death Metal

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Dzisiaj we Wrotach trochę egzotyki, projekt zabójców z Indii. Tetragrammacide - Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix

https://wrotakrypty.blogspot.com/2019/04/tetragrammacide-primal-incinerators-of.html

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August:

Cut Your Flesh And Worship Satan and De Principii Evangelikum by Antaeus

Si Monvmentvm Reqvires Circvmspice by Deathspell Omega

Performative Justice* by Electric Chair

Battles In The North by Immortal

Utter Hell*, Downtown Hades*, and Metal Commando Attack* by Infernö

The Blazing Iniquity by LVME

Burning Spiritual Crypts by Perdition Winds

No Resistance by Reset

The Art Of Balance* by Shadows Fall

Reasonable Woman by Sia

Typho-Tantric Aphorisms* by Tetragrammacide

2024 Album Purchases Pt. 2

LPs and EPs that were bought digital-only (usually through Bandcamp) are marked with an asterisk.

July:

Voyage by ABBA

Dark Recollections by Carnage

The Awaiting Coffins* and None Shall Live... The Hymns Of Misery* by Churchburn

I'd Be Lying If I Said I Didn't Care by Hannah Georgas

A Grand Reclamation* by Godthrymm

Walls Of Jericho by Helloween

Hunted by Khemmis

Voice Among Us* by Knucklehead

Barbarians* and Cerna Krev* by Maniac Butcher

Wheels Of Steel by Saxon

More Parts Per Million* by The Thermals

The Early Years (Element V, uniVers, I Am The Revolution, and The Meaning Of I) by Voyager

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Tetragrammacide - Primal Incinerators of Moral Matrix by Iron Bonehead Productions

[blackmetalstellar]

TETRAGRAMMACIDE

[Primal Incinerators Of Moral Matrix, Black/Death Metal, India, 2017]

- https://www.facebook.com/tetragrammacide/

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