Ordo Cultem Serpentis Debut "Derej Najash", a Cavernous Exposition of Death Doom Inspiration

Signal Rex presents a debut album from Ordo Cultem Serpentis titled, Derej Najash, a tenebrous, slow, methodical journey through blasted plains of a dying land, into the labyrinthine caverns of ancient temples, faced with the gnawing dread of fathomless, unknown celestial gods whose existential realizations would drive one mad.

This offering is not one of speed, nor haste - rather, this album is to be experienced in slow, deliberate, even painstaking fashion. The rhythms and songs waft in an ebb and flow, crafted to weave from quiet, desultory ambience to moments of oppressive, old school death metal. This is a showcase of the blending of multiple styles (dark ambient, ritual drone, doom metal, and old school death metal), exhibiting not a blending of genres, but a presentation of a musical narrative.

This album has all the inspiration and direction of a cinematic dark ambient work, however, it also contains moments of brutal, reverb-soaked death metal; lace these tunes with passages of resonant chanting, dark ambient drones, and what you have in this album is a deliberate, thoughtful journey to a desolate plane of windswept rock, black spires reaching to a storm-choked sky bereft of light. Derej Najash is available in digital and cassette from Signal Rex.

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