An Early Stream of “Horns Echo Over Chorazim” from NOXIS ‘Violence Inherent in the System’ LP (2024)

Today we have the privilege of sharing an early stream of “Horns Echo Over Chorazim” the latest single taken from ‘Violence Inherent in the System‘, the debut full-length album from Cleveland, Ohio-based death metal quartet NOXIS. With this much anticipated debut LP these folks have done more than put in their dues, now asserting themselves with an opus of unexpected profundity not only in terms of their cleverly set technical death metal craft and exciting moment-to-moment intensity but likewise in terms of bringing high-brained consideration into their lyrics. By the time this particular song arrives in the second half of the album they’ve revealed this depth and now strike into Side B with all available ammunition, all their biggest bulldozer grooves as the contorted brutal-yet-experimental mode they’ve worked up likewise comes with fittingly profound observation in hand. The band comment on “Horns Echo Over Chorazim”:

“The song is essentially a speculation on narcissism. It describes a person who, due to what they believe is their own complicated past, is addicted to the cycle of earning someone’s trust purely to drain and betray them. As for the title, some non-canonical gospels state that the Anti-Christ would emerge in a place called Chorazim. Between consumerism, hyper-connectivity, and individualistic values, our culture is slowly degrading into a state of vapid narcissism. It’s not hard to imagine this kind of relationship pattern becoming more normal and less subtle, to the point that we may eventually realize we’ve been standing in Chorazim all along and that the beckoning horns are only going to get louder.“

This June, Noxis with A La Carte
“Midwest Mastication Mini-Tour”

6/28 Tiffin, OH @ Under The Surface Records
6/29 Chicago, IL @ Reggies Joint
6/30 Cincinnati, OH @ Legends
7/1 Album Release show* Lakewood, OH @ No Class
7/2 Ypsilanti, Michigan @ The Regal Beagle

Thanks goes out to NOXIS, Rotted Life Records & Dawnbreed Records and their representation for the opportunity to share this song early. Scroll down to the Bandcamp embed below to finalize your descent… As always, please do your best to support the worldwide death metal underground and grab a copy on CD, LP, and Cassette this coming June 28th, 2024:

Per the Press Release:

Hot on the heels of brilliant debut EP, “Expanse of Hellish Black Mire”, Cleveland death metal quartet NOXIS spews forth the “Violence Inherent In The System” debut LP, an eleven-song concatenation of talent and brutality.

“Violence Inherent In The System” is due out on June 28th, 2024 via Rotted Life (US) and Dawnbreed Records (Europe).

Tracklist:

Skullcrushing Defilement
Blasphemous Mausoleum for the Wicked
Paths of Visceral Fears
Abstemious, Pious Writ of Life
Torpid Consumption
Excursion
Horns Echo over Chorazim
Violence Inherent In The System
Tense and Forlorn
Emanations of the Sick
Surfin’ Blood Futile (physical edition bonus track)

By and large, the underground is a constantly thriving realm that is always spitting out new talent on such a scale that is simply magnificent to gaze upon. When one name pops up to gain the attention of the masses, there’s a litany of others that are birthed out of the void that may become of note the future.

For many, the darkness of the underground is all they’ll ever know while some rise above it to become a massive name in their own right. Others, however, are able to gain quite the following but still find themselves absolutely thriving in the darkness of obscurity.

As one of those notorious creations, Ohio’s NOXIS has been wreaking havoc in those very shadows for a few years now, but it’s with the forthcoming album, “Violence Inherent in the System”, nothing short of staggering in every standard.

Convulsing death metal of the most sadistic sort, this is the sort of absurdity that comes for the very light of creation. Nothing is left to chance as the brand of death metal with which NOXIS wields with terrifying efficiency no matter how they go about it as the whole of the eleven tracks that adorn “Violence Inherent in the System” showcases time after time just how far this act has already come in hardly no time at all.

Where in previous works like “Expanse of Hellish Black Mire” we saw NOXIS take confident steps forward, every given moment of this creation is a tedious labor that craves only the flesh of its victims and to peel apart the souls of those caught in its clutches. As infectious as it is intense from beginning to end, this is a creation that fits perfectly within the deep crevices of the underground where only the strong survive, climb, and thrive!

Nothing can keep NOXIS from pursuing its blood-drenched destiny, not even a wild change in tone and approach that we see in the album’s finale. As far as we should be concerned, “Violence Inherent in the System” is the magnificently victorious offensive that sees NOXIS not just coming out on top, but coated in the blood of the weak as a titanic figure rises amongst the carnage.

This is but of the first assaults that NOXIS will unleash upon the masses with “Violence Inherent in the System”, and what a sight it is.

Line-up:

Ray Conde – Vocals
Dylan Cruz – Guitars and Vocals
David Kirsch – Bass
Joe Lowrie – Drums

For fans of: Demigod, early Cryptopsy, Demilich

NOXIS

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Rotted Life Records

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