Picking up where they left off with their praised 2010 full-length
debut, "Ritual Ascension Beyond Flesh", the new book of hymns, "O' Hell,
Shine In Thy Whited Sepulchres", redefines and magnifies
ENCOFFINATION's signature low-end funeral doom wrapped in the pure
stench of death. Based on Ghoat's own experiences of working in the
funeral industry, "O' Hell, Shine In Thy Whited Sepulchres" is a concept
album... not in the linear sense, but abstract; from the death of the
human form to the sacrifice of flesh into the Earth.
Each members' tracks were recorded in their individual home states
Summer 2011 - the drums in Cooper, Texas (ElektroSound) and the guitars,
bass and drums in Atlanta, Georgia (Graf Yairden). Each track was
recorded in the total solitude of the individual members; another
excursion into the abyss of death, invoking total incarnation of
funereal reality.
From these combined sessions crawls forth the depraved, suffocating, and
incredibly eerie forty-minute "O' Hell, Shine In Thy Whited
Sepulchres", and album that will slam the
coffin lid on the 2011 calendar year as one of the most crushing
releases of the year, in pure ENCOFFINATION fashion. The album's visual
theme utilizes "Finis Gloriae Mundi," a 17th century painting by Juan De
Valdes Leal, and the layout handled directly by Ghoat.
A must have for fans of INCANTATION, RIPPIKOULU, MORPHEUS DESCENDS, dISEMBOWELMENT.