DEMILICH · Nespithe | TRANSPARENT RED SMOKY LP

Transparent Red Smoky vinyl in matte cover with band logo and album title embossed in glossy lettering. Comes with a black and white lyric sheet.

Background information about 'Nespithe'

There are albums that merely push boundaries, and then there's Nespithe — the record that takes a sledgehammer to the very concept of what death metal can be. Demilich's sole full-length, originally unleashed in 1993, remains one of the most baffling, brilliant, and utterly unhinged documents in extreme music. This 2025 reissue on Svart Records breathes new life into a cult classic that sounds like it was beamed in from a dimension where physics works differently.

From the opening moments of \u201cWhen The Sun Drank The Weight Of Water,\u201d you're hit with a swirling vortex of riffs that seem to bend in on themselves. Guitarists Antti Boman and Aki Hyysalo weave labyrinthine, atonal patterns that owe as much to progressive rock's weirdest corners as they do to the Stockholm death metal scene. Boman's vocal delivery is something else entirely — a guttural, croaking growl that sounds less like human language and more like some ancient, subterranean entity trying to communicate through layers of bedrock. Tracks like \u201cThe Sixteenth Six-Tooth Son Of Fourteen Four-Regional Dimensions (Still Unnamed)\u201d showcase a band that clearly had zero interest in playing by the rules. The production, raw yet surprisingly clear, captures every bizarre detail of these compositions. This isn't background music. This is a puzzle box wrapped in a nightmare, and it's as thrilling today as it was three decades ago.

For fans of:
Carcass, Gorguts, Timeghoul, Suffocation, Atheist

Track listing

A1. When The Sun Drank The Weight Of Water
A2. The Sixteenth Six-Tooth Son Of Fourteen Four-Regional Dimensions (Still Unnamed)
A3. Inherited Rowel Levitation - Reduced Without Any Effort
A4. The Echo (Replacement)
A5. The Putrefying Road In The Ninteenth Extremity (…Somewhere Inside The Bowels Of Endlessness…)
B1. (Within) The Chamber Of Whispering Eyes
B2. And You'll Remain… (In Pieces Of Nothingness)
B3. Erecshyrinol
B4. The Planet That Once Used To Absorb Flesh In Order To Achieve Divinity And Immortality (Suffocated To The Flesh That It Desired…)
B5. The Cry
B6. Raped Embalmed Beauty Sleep

Manufacturer: Oy Svart Musik Ab, Saippua Center, Ruissalontie 12C, laituri O, 20200 Turku, Finland, Contact: www.svartrecords.com