- The cover of Omen Ex Simulacra
I first covered Ævangelist a year ago, upon encountering their 2012 full-length debut, De Masticatione Mortuorum in Tumulis (Voidhanger). That album was among my picks for In Rotation: “This mysterious band—split between Portland, Oregon, and Arlington Heights, Illinois—belongs to the ‘crawling chaos’ school of death metal,” I wrote. (Or black metal? These things are rarely as clear-cut as one might wish.) “Like a plague of insects, its formless dark is incalculably huge but moves with terrifying speed: layers of keening and buzzing converge like swarming wings, and guitars flash like faceted eyes from a murk of cavernous growling and serpentine bass.”
Omen Ex Simulacra by ÆVANGELIST
