SkyPanda
This is definitely one of the best Death Metal releases this year so far! Tons of riffs here and its heavy! Definitely adding this band to my watch list!
Favorite track: Noumenal Wings Of Uncreation Hover Over The Excrements Of Shunyata.
IRON BONEHEAD PRODUCTIONS is proud to present APARTHIVA RAKTADHARA's highly anticipated debut album, Adyapeeth Maranasamhita (আদ্যাপীঠ মরণসংহিতা), on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.
সত্য সর্ব ধৰ্মাতিত এবং তাহা সর্বদা অনির্বচনীয় ও পারমার্থিকরূপে শূন্য !
There is no Religion higher than The Truth which is NOT.
Hailing from Kalikshetra (or colloquially known as Kolkata), India's APARTHIVA RAKTADHARA burst into ultraviolent being with their debut demo, Agyat Ishvar, in 2018 under the auspices of IRON BONEHEAD. Surely a surprise given the band's unique geography, the power-trio nevertheless destroyed all doubters with a swift 13-minute nuclear warhead of dread frequencies that somehow managed to sound hallucinatory. As the years passed, anticipation for an APARTHIVA RAKTADHARA full-length compounded.
At last, it arrives, bearing the title Adyapeeth Maranasamhita (আদ্যাপীঠ মরণসংহিতা). Although the album is seeing release in 2022, as the band explains, "Adyapeeth Maranasamhita was received as a burning revelation of riktata, realized within our hearts as we meditated under a Bodhi tree by the Ganges in Chanak, Uttar Kalikshetra, in fall 2019." Regardless of its origins, APARTHIVA RAKTADHARA's first full-length fulfills the massive promise shown by its predecessor and then reaches far into realms previously unfathomed. What's strikingly, immediately apparent is the album's clean 'n' clear production, which nevertheless works in the band's favor, sharpening their martial-and-mesmerizing attack to a katana-like degree. That their songwriting has become ever more dizzying whilst evincing a remarkable sense of focus makes Adyapeeth Maranasamhita an even-more-diabolical display of occult mathematics than its brash predecessor.
APARTHIVA RAKTADHARA state that the lyrical themes explored on Adyapeeth Maranasamhita include Sunyata, impermanence, and Apophatic Theology. Indeed, the power-trio bring those heady topics to bear across the album's six-song/35-minute runtime, twisting and turning a near-overwhelming amount of information into something that's paradoxically single-minded and trance-inducing. Stultifyingly feral, absurdly complex: truly, there will be no other death metal record quite like this, this year or any other. Adyapeeth Maranasamhita is the grand celebration of APARTHIVA RAKTADHARA's beginning...and your end.
Release notes
Recorded at Skyscraper Studio, Kolkata
Artwork & Layout by Qayin Mandala Graphex
Logo by Alan Corpse
Photography by Akash Dey
Glossary
Adya - Primal, Timeless, The space-time-less source
Peeth - Throne, Seat, A sanctuary involving a particular spiritual current
Adyapeeth - A temple located in North Kolkata dedicated to Goddess Adya
Marana - Death
Samhita - 1. Sanskrit word that may be interpreted as meaning “to arrange together in union” or “a structured combination of verses or texts." 2. "Any of the four basic canonical books of Hindu scriptures comprising hymns, prayers, and liturgical formulas and including the Rig Veda, the Yajur Veda, the Sama Veda, and the Atharva Veda." - Merriam Webster
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never been a big death metal fan but this is actually super accessible for the genre, has fun concepts, and personally i'm always a fan of albums with short tracklists and huge runtimes (for individual songs) Great time, good jumping on point for newbies too. alienasu
supported by 31 fans who also own “Aparthiva Raktadhara - Adyapeeth Maranasamhita (আদ্যাপীঠ মরণসংহিতা)”
I came accross Black Curse, and their first demo, on Greg Biehl / No Gleaming Light YT channel in late 2019 and a bit later, in 2020, as it was covid, a whole lot of time was spent at home listening to music.
In April 2020, I took a slap in my face. The songs that were already on the demo, with the new production here were so insane, it dragged me to hell. Black Curse is definitely one of the most violent band I listened in the last years. Next-level Black-Death metal for sure ! drs_dramm