Release Date August 20th, 2026
Format CD/Vinyl
Genre Black/Death Metal
Origin Slovenia
Cvinger formed in Domžale, Slovenia, during the winter of 2011 and 2012 through Lucerus, Bagot and Krieg Machine. The demo "Abyss Of Horns" and the EP "Monastery Of Fallen" appeared in 2013, establishing the band’s early interest in black metal, death metal and ancient Slavic religion. Obscurum entered on bass in 2014, with Morgoth taking over the drums, and the debut album "Enthronement Of Diabolical Souls" followed. A week of concerts across Eastern Europe led to appearances alongside Marduk, Gorgoroth, Kampfar and Gehenna.
Cvinger travelled to Sweden in 2016 for sessions at Endarker Studios, producing the second album "Embodied In Incense", issued through Art Gates Records and promoted during twenty dates in China. New compositions were underway by 2018, before the pandemic interrupted concert activity. Via Nocturna released "Doctrines By The Figures Of Črnobog" in 2023. The present lineup consists of Lucerus on vocals, Morgoth on drums, Nord Slayer and Ichor on guitars, and Corvus on bass. Across these releases, Cvinger has joined Scandinavian black metal aggression, death metal depth and Slavic religious symbolism into a severe form of extreme metal.
"Rites Ov Flesh" examines left hand path practices associated with Slavic and Indian nomadic traditions, concentrating on inward transformation through meditation, spiritual visualization, fasting, sacred plants and symbolic Aghori sexual rites. The lyrics treat sacrifice as a mental and spiritual process, using bodily imagery to describe altered consciousness, surrender and transcendence. Tremolo guitar lines dominate the music, joined by dissonant chords, low death metal figures and abrupt rhythmic changes.
Morgoth moves between blast beats, martial patterns and slower strikes, as Lucerus shifts from black metal screams into deeper growls. Naming the compositions as consecutive rites adds ceremonial order, although the actual songwriting remains centered on riff cycles and sustained aggression. Tracking took place at Studio 369, with Tim Draksler handling the mix and mastering, and the production maintains separation between the guitars, bass and drums without removing their raw surface.
The main issue comes from the upper speed range, where similar tremolo shapes, vocal entries and blast patterns make part of the middle lose definition, and more frequent slower death metal turns could have widened the contrast. This is a good black/death metal album, grim, focused and carefully assembled, with detailed spiritual themes and enough musical substance to survive its more uniform stretches.
|7.5
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