ÆNIGMATUM - Forged From Bedlam (From ’Deconsecrate’ LP, 2021)

Ænigmatum ’Forged From Bedlam’ Deconsecrate LP / CD / TAPE / DIGITAL / TS / LS Releasing August 13th, 2021 Pre-orders in July 1. Forged From Bedlam 2. Undaunted Hereafter 3. Disenthralled 4. Fracturing Proclivity 5. Floods Within A Splintered Cortex 6. Larker, Sanguine Phantom 7. Despot Of Amorphic Dominions 8. Animus Reflection The idiosyncratic methodology of Portland’s Aenigmatum is instantly apparent from the whip-start blast of ‘Forged From Bedlam’, the opening track of their second album ‘Deconsecrate’. While the pace is frenetic, speed is never a crutch to be relied upon but rather one deliberate device in a sprawling collection of melodically precise and technically riveting fragmented death shards. The eight songs on ‘Deconsecrate’ constitute a labyrinthian structure of twisting nuanced complexity and intricate explosive chaos. Blood-freezing and incandescently beautiful at once, Aenigmatum temper their withering elaborate intensity with astonishingly elegant melodic passages carved into the m