Exclusive Track Premiere: Enragement’s “Vorarephilia”
Si vis vitam, para mortem.
On October 3rd, Finnish brutal death metal quartet Enragement will release their 4th LP and first for our dear friends and comrades Transcending Obscurity Records. Thus far, we’ve been treated to three singles, including “Insectiferous Abomination,” which I highlighted in my 2025 sampler review and described as “battle-damaged, maniacal brutal death metal played with a frightening, fearless precision.” Other singles such as “Abyssal Hellscapes” and “Harbingers of Degradation” demonstrate the band’s knack for “borrowing elements from associated styles and mixing it all up.” “Abyssal Hellscapes” features huge, hulking riffs interspersed with tremolo scaling, frenetic blast beats, and virulent attitude. Halfway through the track, you’ll be treated to a maniacal black metal bridge before the weight of extinction is pressed once again upon you with impetuous force. “Harbingers of Degradation” channels Suffocation and Devourment, with a steady mix of Frank-chop madness, delightful guitar flourishes, and chunked-n-funked groove. When the band isn’t outright slamming you can even catch the faintest whiff of melody. As has been rightly noted elsewhere about Enragement, the band knows how to write songs, combining potentially disparate elements into deeply satisfying and harrowing compositions.
Today, we’re stoked to bring you the fourth single “Vorarephilia.” The album’s opening track, “Vorarephilia” immediately rips itself apart with chopping blasts, squealing pinch harmonics, and catchy, groove-laden slams. All three vocalists contribute different registers, pitches, and tones to the entirety of Extinguish All Existence, never more apparent than in the Katalepsy-esque breakdown over the track’s final minute. Whether you ache to consume another creature or to be consumed by that creature, “Vorarephilia” is the soundtrack of perversion for you.
About the album as a whole, the band has this to say:
An ode to the emotionless brutality of nature, Extinguish All Existence explores themes from devastating natural disasters to the most insidious parasitic reproduction mechanisms of the animal realm. Taking Enragement’s genre-crossing approach to brutal death metal further than ever before, the new album surpasses its predecessors in all manners of extremity.
“Everything is telling us,” writes Jacqueline Rose in The Plague, “that we cannot go on making all the bad decisions that have been made in the name of progress.” To veer entirely away from her point and towards a more carnally obsessive and nihilistic one, what if what is speaking to us is instead an insatiable vorarephilia, an unmanageable and degenerate drive to literalize fetishistic consumption? Consume and be consumed, all while taking an enormous pleasure in it. Hit play below to see if it’s your kink, too.
Extinguish All Existence hits shelves
via Transcending Obscurity Records on October 3.
Per uge, the merch is nuts.
Those orange-sleeved raglans!
