DESEKRYPTOR will unleash their new EP Sarcophagal Corridors on May 16th, 2025 via Nuclear Winter Records.
Marking a bold shift in their creative approach, the band deconstructed their usual songwriting method by starting with drums instead of riffs. Percussionist P.A. recorded raw, unanchored drum tracks that guitarist E.S. then manipulated and smothered with riffs designed to overpower the rhythms. While the unorthodox process could have resulted in utter chaos, it instead gave birth to some of the most refined and structurally cohesive material the band has produced to date.
Sarcophagal Corridors stands as a testament to DESEKRYPTOR’s willingness to experiment without losing sight of the malicious death metal core that defines them.
Stream the first single ‘Leprous Exsanguination’
Sarcophagal Corridors Track List:
- Penance of Hemorrhaging Wrath
- Sarcophagal Corridors
- Leprous Exsanguination
- Umbilical Stigmata
For nearly a decade now, Indiana’s DESEKRYPTOR have been patiently perfecting their craft. In 2017 arrived two demos – Demo 2016 and Chasm Of Rot – which were then collected together under the title of the latter and released by Blood Harvest Records on cassette later that year. A year later came a split with comrades Draghkar, and the momentum seemed to be in DESEKRYPTOR’s favor: good ‘n’ gutted death metal, with a bit of a blackened singe. Five years of silence followed until the Curse Of The Execrated EP, which proved that the quartet had only become more poised and powerful during that hiatus.
In 2023, DESEKRYPTOR revealed the full fathom of that poise & power with their debut album, Vortex Oblivion. Aptly titled, Vortex Oblivion is a churning ‘n’ spurning vacuum of charred riffing, mangled rhythms, and dread atmosphere. As they’ve proven in the past but more so display here, DESEKRYPTOR keenly navigate that spectral divide between classic / “old school” death metal and the genre’s tendrilous developments in recent years. From heads-down tank propulsion and doomed-out stomp on to atonal and/or angular twists and mesmerizing blackened slipstreaming, no tool of death metal’s ancient and modern schools is left untouched. But, above all, it’s the manner in which DESEKRYPTOR wield those tools that puts Vortex Oblivion over, the band’s songwriting acumen pulling it all together to create a seamless experience and still leaving plenty of atmosphere to spare as you’re summarily crushed – and then minced. This is what classic death metal debuts are made of!
Now, in 2025, DESEKRYPTOR are poised to return with a new slab of sonic decay: the Sarcophagal Corridors EP, set for release via Nuclear Winter Records. Continuing their descent into the depths of cavernous death metal, the new material promises to further sharpen the band’s singular approach, where ancient brutality and spectral darkness intertwine.
For fans of: Incantation, Immolation, Funebrarum, Triumvir Foul