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𒁂Tetragrammacide – Typho-Tantric Aphorisms From The Arachneophidian Qur'an𒁂

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Tetragrammacide | Typho-Tantric Aphorisms from the Arachneophidian Qur'an | 2023

Indian Black Death Metal

Artwork by Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule

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Tetragrammacide — Tantric Aphorisms from the Arachneophidian Qu’ran (Iron Bonehead)

Death metal act Tetragrammacide likes to deal in maximalist gestures. If you think Tantric Aphorisms from the Arachneophidian Qu’ran is a hifalutin mouthful of syllables and concepts, check out a couple of the monikers the band has hung on its songs: “Mandelbrot Scarab of Fractal Manifestation Trapped in the Arachnid Webs, Spun above the Hidden Pathways into Non-Euclidean Interbetweenness” and “Intoxicated Bees of Sekhet-Aarhu Circumambulate the Abode of Self Beheaded One Who Forever Danceth in Her Shaktisexual Ecstasy.” Say what? And also: thanks, dudes. Now I have a baseline schema for what a Mandelbrot Set is (but it’s tough to understand thoroughly without some advanced maths) and that Shaktisexual energy is a thing among the New Age types (marginally more useful knowledge to this intrepid adventurer…). All that is stimulating, and sort of fun, but what does any of it have to do with death metal?

Even after repeated spins of Tantric Aphorisms from the Arachneophidian Qu’ran, this reviewer can provide little enlightenment — though some sort of spiritual experience, likely involving rapacious sexual desire and significant acts of property damage, seems very much at stake in the music. Tetragrammacide is part of the ever-evolving death metal scene in Kolkata, and like fellow West Bengali band Aparthiva Raktadhara, the band seems intent on articulating a malign underside to India’s rich religious and cultic traditions. While the band’s semiotic antics seem superficially more suited to the perversely playful energies of dissonant tech death, on this record Tetragrammacide has pushed further into the black/death aesthetics they have explored for close to a decade.

That is: there is more speed and burl to this music than there is absurd complexity or an acrobatic, linear compositional sense. The riffs ring clear, and the rhythmic are flexible but driving. Tunes like “Fundamental Reconciliation between Maya and Yama through Perpetual Okbish-Ouroboric Cunnilingus” are less bestial, more ecstatic (no shit…). But that’s in the ear of the listener — and Tetragrammacide is taking a chance interweaving terms and concepts like Yama and Qu’ran in India’s current social and cultural climate. Some listeners might find those thought experiments more blasphemous than bestial, or criminally bestial in their blasphemy. In nations like the US or Sweden, adventurous death metal has always been intent on shattering taboos and offending moral sensibilities. In Modi’s India? The stakes of those intents and acts seem a lot higher.

Jonathan Shaw

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“Typhonian Wormholes: Indecipherable Anti​-​Structural Formulæ” - Tetragrammacide - 2021

“Tetragrammacide play black metal, predatory black metal derived from the decaying ruins of ancient Kalikshetra. Our music springs from the shacks of the third world, from the putrid stench of carrion and filth. In our songs you can hear air pollution, burning hunger, economic hardships, diseases and epidemics, unemployment and overpopulation, endless political rifts, violent revolts, endless poverty and famine, dark magic and tantra, all these ingredients end up in our musical potion/poison.”

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Artwork by Qayin Mandala GrapHex Tetragrammacide - Third World Esoterrorism (2019) Black/Death Metal