Rigor Sardonicous - Praeparet Bellum (Full Album 2023)

In their endless quest to push and support current underground acts that deliver the goods unaware of trends and hypes, on January 23rd, 2023, MEMENTO MORI is proud to present RIGOR SARDONICOUS’ long-awaited seventh album, Praeparet Bellum. True purveyors of aural torment, RIGOR SARDONICOUS are one of the cultest bands of the American death metal underground. Formed in 1988, the long-standing duo of bassist Glenn Hampton and vocalist/guitarist Joseph Fogarazzo remain one of the darkest and creepiest bands calling “death metal“ home. Aided by their ever-trustworthy drum-machine, RIGOR SARDONICOUS are utterly lifeless and excruciatingly slow, almost daring the listener to find any “fun“ in their all-devouring void of inertia. You could almost qualify their music(k) as doom-death, but not in the traditional sense; existing for as long as (and even longer) than aesthetic forebears like Unholy and Evoken, RIGOR SARDONICOUS’ slo-mo sizzle equally bears a future-primitive texture n