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Retreat. Retreat. Retreat.<\/p>\n

On May 9, 2025, Brazilian death metal quartet Escarnium<\/strong> will release Inexorable Entropy<\/em>, the band\u2019s first album for venerable Everlasting Spew Records. The release of the band\u2019s fourth full-length coincides with a tour of Mexico, itself a prelude to an extensive European tour in November 2025. Today, we\u2019re thrilled to bring you an exclusive track premiere of the album\u2019s lead single \u201cRelentless Katabasis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Playing a style of death metal most comparable to legends Incantation<\/strong>, Immolation<\/strong>, and Krisiun<\/strong>, Escarnium combine blitzing speed with an oppressive, gloom-choked atmosphere. Riffs swarm and envelop you in foul obscurity. Nestor Carrera\u2019s fatigueless drumming marshals you ever forward to the darkest of fates. Victor Elian\u2019s vocals invade your psyche, roared with no abandon. Fans of 2022\u2019s Dysthymia<\/em><\/a> will find \u201cRelentless Katabasis\u201d as a progression of the formula at work with excellent tracks \u201cInglorious Demise\u201d and \u201cDeluged in Miasma.\u201d The only difference? Sergej Dukart\u2019s mixing and mastering has made the guitars more prominent, solidifying and thickening their sound while making things even clearer. The whirling madness of it all is still there, of course, but everything sounds bolstered. At around 2:20, we are all marching to the shores in an endless repetition of our humbling defeat and great loss.<\/p>\n

In \u201cEnd-times for Humanity,\u201d Claire Colebrook writes, \u201cHistory suggests that the more we define \u2018the human\u2019 as a subject of intellect, mastery, and progress\u2014the more \u2018we\u2019 insist on global unity under the umbrella of a supposedly universal kinship\u2014the less <\/em>possible it comes to imagine any other mode of existence as <\/em>human.\u201d Because of our insistence on a single <\/em>vision of \u201cthe human,\u201d our worst nightmares\u2014our doomsday scenarios and our dystopias\u2014often take for granted that many, many <\/em>people already live that. That is, the West\u2019s worst-case scenarios are frequently just what the West has done to other parts of the world and is currently doing to itself. \u201cBy \u2018end of the world,\u2019\u201d Colebrook continues, \u201cwe usually mean the end of our <\/em>world.\u201d Escarnium, whose band name roughly translates to mockery, derision, and ridicule, takes nothing lightly. In both song title and album title, there is a sense of unyielding inevitability, of constancy and\/in plight. Too, nihilism and despair, perhaps antithetical, permeate “Relentless Katabsis.” We are all “sick, dying scum,” mere life “grafted from scraps.” The world is spiteful, inhumane, and ghoulish. They seem to perfectly understand, to play music that sounds like what Colebrook is suggesting here: what are the costs to attain and sustain \u201cour\u201d world? #hat entitles us to such a world in the first place? Aren\u2019t the end-times always already present and haven\u2019t they always been? Eschatological. Historical. Material. In whatever capacity we envision the end of everything, the end of everything for Escarnium is forever unfolding from a nameless past to a timeless future.<\/p>\n

Hit play on the video below and get engulfed in our eternity of catastrophe.<\/p>\n