The riffs spit, snarl and stomp their way through the album like a thousand chainsaws coming at you all at once. The guitars and bass are ugly, sludgy and distorted to the point where they become one giant mass of rhythmic bludgeoning. Musically, the band takes a unique focus of native/indigenous heritage and themes and then churns it up into a disgustingly brutal groove-based slab of OSDM. ![]() Now joined with G-Bone handling bass and Erol Ulug on drums, Tzompantli are set to release their debut LP Tlazcaltiliztli on underground label 20 Buck Spin. Formed in twenty nineteen, Huey Itztekwanotl o))) released the band’s first EP as a one-man band. It seems fitting that Tzompantli is the name for this crushingly heavy Southern California Death Doom Metal band that’s built on the bedrock of native/indigenous themes, rituals and history. It was also obviously used to strike fear in the hearts of enemies. Its precise etymology is uncertain, but the general interpretation is ‘skull rack’ or ‘wall of skulls.’ The tower may seem grisly to modern eyes, but Mesoamericans viewed the ritual sacrifice that produced it as a means of keeping the gods alive and preventing the destruction of the universe. ![]() FFO: Grave, Disembowelment, Morbid Angel, Spectral Voice.Ī Tzompantli, in bygone days, was a rack used to display human skulls, often of enemies or human sacrifices in several Mesoamerican civilizations.
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