***Ceremoniously ending a silence of approximately three years, Necrogosto returned with a vengeance in 2023 with the cassette and CD releases of its latest studio recording, "Sudakaos." With a title that appropriately evokes both its South American homeland and the chaotic nature of its artform, "Sudakaos" resumes where the previous "Ancestral Bestiality" EP (2020) and self-titled demo (2017) left off. More specifically, the eight new tracks included once again provide a current-day glimpse into the Brazilian scene of thirty-plus years ago, where legends like Sarcófago, Holocausto, Necrobutcher, and their evil kindred spirits ruled. Additionally, "Sudakaos" directly pays homage to its ancestral compatriots with Necrogosto's included rendition of "Black Church," of Insulter and Sextrash fame. The production of this release is noticeably crisper and boasts better definition of the instruments and vocals than previous recordings. This is not at all to say that the band has strayed from the savagery of its roots. Instead, the tracks on "Sudakaos" are more impactful and reflect an enhanced and more memorable resemblance to the studio recordings of the greats of the Brazilian scene. In presenting this recording on vinyl for the first time, NWN! has fortunately opted to include the band's self-titled demo tracks in all their original glory, thus providing the existing bookends to Necrogosto's ongoing reign of chaos.
LP $23.95
08/16/2024
***With its initial self-titled demo from 2017, NECROGOSTO introduced itself as a cult worthy of the rich Brazilian metal underground that its forefathers had pioneered decades earlier. Recalling the savagery invoked by its fellow countrymen in such fabled bands as Sarcofago, Sextrash, Necrobutcher, and Expulser, Necrogosto proved that it is indeed possible to recapture the sound and spirit of one of the most historically significant scenes to have ever impacted extreme metal. Now, two years later and approximately one year since Nuclear War Now! reissued the demo, the same label and band conspire to bring us Necrogosto’s next atrocity, Ancestral Bestiality, an eight-track MLP that confirms the authenticity in style and sound first displayed on the demo. Like the preceding demo, these new tracks harken back to a particular time and place where the boundaries between the existing subgenres of metal were blurred, making clear distinctions between black and death metal difficult and somewhat futile to discern. Like its inspirations from over thirty years ago, this recording is steeped in both the barbarity of primitive death metal and the evil of first-wave black metal, which in itself shared more characteristics of thrash than its more contemporary offshoot.
LP $17.75
03/06/2020