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RAPTUROUS FLESH CONSUMED

by Heretical Sect

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JDMP
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JDMP Most has already been said about this album, but I will say more. There is a lot to love here, and the energy and darkness present/behind this record is apparent. I love the blackened death vibe so much, and Heretical Sect is crushing it.
Dave Aftandilian
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Dave Aftandilian Anyone who knows the history of the Southwest knows there are bones buried everywhere just beneath the surface--often literally. Heretical Sect excavates these atrocities and gives voice to their victims and the insanity that destroyed them. A brutal assault on the senses and spirit, as it should be.
Previously, on....
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Previously, on.... This is how black metal should sound! Fucking up front, immediate, grinding, and most importantly: LOUD. This album will tell you to turn it up. Great recording and mixing. #3 AOTY 2020.
onorato73
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onorato73 Just checking this one out after I listened to the second release Rotting Cosmic Grief. This band is my favorite new find of a band. Very dark sounding atmosphere! Favorite track: Ritual Inversion.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Limited Edition CD from the mighty Redefining Darkness.

    Includes unlimited streaming of RAPTUROUS FLESH CONSUMED via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Limited Edition Vinyl Transparent Blood Smoke
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Presented by Gilead Media- this color way is limited to 250 units worldwide. The band will be sell 40 copies only.

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  • Rapturous Flesh- Cassette
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    Here is a our full length debut on a self released pro cassette tape. With an exclusive photo and unique version of the cover art. Includes sticker.

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    White ink on black Gildan T-Shirt. Printed to order please allow two weeks for shipping.

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    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Disgustingly beautiful vinyl made in the USA.

    We will only be selling 50 copies through Bandcamp.

    Test pressing approved expecting to SHIP EARLY FEBRUARY.

    Released by Gilead Media.

    Customers outside the US order from gileadmedia.net or wait for stock to arrive at Dry Cough (EU) and Throatruiner/Deathwish EU (France)

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about

The end of 2020 brings a new beginning for blackened death-doom collective Heretical Sect. Founded in the American Southwest in 2018 the group released their debut EP in early 2019 and now join with Gilead Media for their powerful debut full-length, Rapturous Flesh Consumed.

Heretical Sect exists as an entity to communicate the unique perspective of the American Southwest. But not in sound or sonic style, instead by focusing on the historical, personal, and cosmological narratives of the region and coupling those perspectives with death-doom and ferocious black metal. Haunting lead melodies guide the listener to a path of tortured guitar work and pummeling rhythm as each passage builds into an atmosphere of total anguish, underscored by vocals torn from other dimensions and channeling generations of suffering.

Although the American Southwest is typically represented through the nostalgic and romantic lens of cowboy culture it is home to numerous atrocities. Religious persecution, disease, slavery, and other violent acts are burned into the memory of the landscape. Expansive Skies, deep canyons, and painted red rock have witnessed untold butchery and grief. This project a funerary monolith to the countless, unknown dead who resisted and died, crushed beneath the hooves of conquest, victims to genocide and massacres. This serves as a foundation for the sound of Heretical Sect, juxtaposed against the beauty of the high desert.

“We meet the madness of collapse; adorned in the cloak of chaos, confusion, and death—the mantle of our collective past.”
The specific concept behind Rapturous Flesh Consumed is centered around the perspective of Salvador de Guerra, a religious zealot and Catholic Padre infamous for mutilation and torture. The album explores Guerra’s insanity and postulates some fictional reasoning behind his actions, seeing him obsess over the relationships between Christianity and native traditional beliefs. Attempting to marry the two through his own blasphemous rituals.

Heretical Sect contains members of well-known Santa Fe bands but all members remain anonymous and hooded during live performances and photos so that the listener’s focus can be put upon the lyrical themes and songwriting.

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released December 11, 2020

Rapturous Flesh Consumed was recorded live in the studio by Augustine Ortiz, who also meticulously mixed the album. Mastered at Cauliflower Audio in Cleveland, OH. The album’s artwork is by Zac Scheinbaum and was commissioned specifically to fit the album’s themes of ghastly religious persecution.

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Heretical Sect Santa Fe, New Mexico

Black Death Doom.
Full Length coming via Gilead Media and Redefining Darkness Dec 11th, 2020.

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