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Artist......: Wharflurch
Album.......: Psychedelic Realms ov Hell
Year........: 2021
Genre.......: Death Metal
Type........: Album
Label.......: Personal Records
Language....: English
Source......: WEB/FLAC (24bit)
Quality.....: 1693kbps / 48 kHz / Stereo
Tracks......: 6 tracks
Playtime....: 00:34:33
Size........: 419.1 MiB
R.Date......: 2026-10-17
S.Date......: 2021-09-03
Url.........: https://open.qobuz.com/album/rteeycmtmuwrd
01. Celestial Mycelium 4:48
02. Stoned Ape Apocalypse 4:48
03. Abandoning Reality 7:00
04. Phantasmagorical Fumes 6:15
05. Bog Body Boletus 5:13
06. Psychedelic Realms ov Hell 6:30
Formed in the swampy summer of 2019, WHARFLURCH is the
bastard brain excrement of two Floridian heathens (who
also do time in D-beat death-mongers Hot Graves) who
desired to made the world a more drippy, disgusting
place for human scum to writhe in. Thus, a death metal
sound influenced by the horrific doom found in uncharted
areas of space and the malaise of swamp madness was
envisioned, and mind-crushing riffs and concepts were
conjured.
Recording began in mid-2019, with MC handling all
instrumental duties, while JM (normally behind a drum
kit in all previous bands) took on the vocal attack.
Primitive demos were tracked, and the four-song Demo
2019 was unleashed digitally. Even with nearly zero
promotion, the response was eerily enthusiastic among
comrades of the band. Still wishing to refine and
strengthen the sound without losing the bizarre
atmospherics, writing began for a new demo recording
process that would bring the horror even more into
focus. In early 2020, the recording began for Lurking
Doom, the first official EP from WHARFLURCH, which found
the depths of cosmic death worship even deeper and more
obscure than before.
WHARFLURCH then assembled a live lineup, just in time
for Covid-19 to relieve us the burden ov enjoying live
music. Writing and rehearsing went frantically, and by
the end ov summer, the second EP Shitslime was recorded
and released digitally, and then released on CD by
PERSONAL RECORDS in March. Like light-speed slime
malformed into song, or more malodorous basements found
below those of subterranean death metal, Shitslime lived
up to its lively namesake, and then some: WHARFLURCH's
command of ripe, rotten riff and tension-inducing
texture are enviously advanced for a band so new. Which
is to say nothing of the utterly sweltering production
across Shitslime, totally live and loose(st)...and this
was merely the beginning of a tale too gruesome and
gargantuan to contemplate.
At long last, that tale reaches a fever pitch with
WHARFLURCH's debut album, Psychedelic Realms Ov Hell.
Almost too perfectly titled, Psychedelic Realms Ov Hell
is a hallucinogenic maelstrom of a full-length, the band
equally armed with riffs and psilocybin. A tale that can
only come from the spiral swamps of Florida, the album
comprises six songs that reveal a story of how this
psychic spore arrived on this planet, determined to take
over, and how that has played out over centuries to the
present moment. Awash in trippy synth textures,
WHARFLURCH's tendrilous attack still remains a death
metal odyssey to its core, riff after pummeling, slimy
riff. This time, the sound is much more powerful and in
your face than before, and the artwork takes the
elements that the band is known for even further.
One could say that WHARFLURCH have truly "arrived," but
their increasingly unique style of death metal
simultaneously sounds aeons old and light years ahead.
With more variation and experimentation all over the
place without losing their disgusting spatial core,
Psychedelic Realms ov Hell is pustulent proof of that
data.