Release Date July 31st, 2026
Format CD/LP/Digital
Genre Death Metal
Origin United States
Hexorcist is a death metal band from Miami, Florida, rooted in the blasphemous extremity long associated with the state’s underground. The band gained wider notice with its 2021 debut, “Evil Reaping Death,” a compact attack built from rapid riffs, guttural vocals, violent drumming, and religious desecration. Five years later, Hexorcist returns through Invictus Productions with “Crucificial Imprecations,” released alongside an expanded edition of the debut. The connection between the two albums is immediate. Hexorcist remains committed to orthodox death metal, drawing on speed, cavernous vocal tones, and satanic imagery with little interest in atmosphere or decorative studio tricks. This is music constructed around aggression and riff quantity, tracing a straight line through the most blasphemous side of Florida death metal.
“Crucificial Imprecations” contains eight songs across thirty minutes. High velocity guitars dominate the album, supported by frantic drumming and deeply buried growls. The arrangements move rapidly between riffs, rarely pausing long enough for the attack to lose momentum. Its lyrical direction is openly anti-Christian, with desecration, profanity, sacrilege, and demonic worship spread across titles such as “Defacing Deities,” “Adverse Sacraments,” and
“Unconsecrated Offerings.” The artwork comes from Johny Prayogi. The expanded debut “Evil Reaping Death” reaches thirteen songs, adding bonus demos to the original debut. Those additions provide a broader view of Hexorcist’s early form and make the reissue a substantial companion to the new album rather than a bare repress with altered packaging.
“Crucificial Imprecations” strikes fast and remains locked on velocity. The guitars produce an almost continuous stream of riffs, the drums maintain a violent pace, and the vocals sound appropriately subterranean without swallowing the music. Its compact length protects the album from dilution, though the narrow tempo range and similar song construction can blur individual cuts after several listens. Greater rhythmic contrast would have made the eight songs easier to separate.
The writing has enough variation to prevent total uniformity, especially when the guitars step away from pure acceleration and introduce darker, more deliberate patterns. “Evil Reaping Death” remains rawer and less compressed in scope, with the bonus demos exposing the primitive form of the band’s attack. Taken together, these releases present Hexorcist as disciplined, vicious, and deeply committed to blasphemous death metal. The new album is an effective barrage with strong riff craft, restrained mainly by its limited dynamic range and dependence on sustained speed.
|7.5
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