Escarnium – Inexorable Entropy

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7.5

• Band:
  Escarnium
• Duration: 00:31:16
• Available since: 09/05/2025
• Label:

• Everlasting Spew Records

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In the turbid undergrowth of the underground Death Metal, some names impose themselves with the discretion of a shadow, silent but inescapable in their evolution. The Escarniums, Brazilian formation for some time now devoted to a sound aesthetic as powerful as they are funeral, overlook again on the scene with “Inexorable Entropy”, a work that, for expressive maturity and attention to detail, could finally project them beyond the restricted circle of followers that has followed them so far with fervor.
Since the beginning, Salvador's quartet has drawn with full hands from ninety metal death, forging a hybrid style, rooted both in the most square and across the Italian US tradition, and in the Swedish Old School. However, over the years the group's musical lexicon has refined and at the same time weighted a lot, contaminating with the most oppressive atmospheres that characterize the scene of contemporary underground metal underground. “Inexorable Entropy” embodies this dark transition to the best, keeping the urgency and aggression of the past, but raising them with a more stratified atmospheric sensitivity and a compositional approach of greater refinement.
The influence of immolation permeates the entire work, both in the angular and vaguely dissonant tutor of guitars and in the vocal interpretation, cavernous and corrosive, in the sign of the great Ross Dolan. However, the picture does not end here: the calls to the Dead Congregation, the Krypts and the Phrenelith are now evident, with dynamic structures that are not limited to a front impact but build, with wisdom, an atmosphere of perennial tension. The dialectic between impact and melodic breath is more inspired and balanced here, with a careful use of arpeggios and pauses, elements that enrich the narrative without ever compromising their intensity.
The title-track stands as a manifesto of the disc: a mini-infonia of sound chiaroscuro, in which the most convulsive and aggressive sections alternate with passages full of restlessness. “Through the Depths of the 12th Gate”, for its part, stands out for an equally articulated system, in which the band manages to dilate and contract the sound with considerable effectiveness, without ever sliding in the prolixity. The overall duration of the album is in fact pleasantly contained, with the group that avoids the temptation to drag itself into excessively dilated suite, to guarantee instead a close and dispersed listening.
While remaining anchored to a sound context strictly intended for fans of the greater and more intransigent death metal, “Inexorable Entropy” does not just satisfy the audience of the so -called completes of the genre. With this new work, the Escarniums offer something that deserves more than simple distracted listening, showing that they have reached a compositional awareness that begins to put them in a prominent position in the current panorama Death Metal Underground.