I’m pretty sure I saw and listened to a bit of this album when it dropped a few months back, but I skipped it. Likely I wasn’t in the right headspace and looking for something to destroy my ears, not abstract chaos and slow unraveling. And that was a mistake because this has both.

Ontology of Nought doesn’t come out swinging. It waves and disorients and the opening minutes are sprawling and unsteady, almost ambient but with lots of tension. It’s technical death metal somehow, sure, but it’s riddled with very avant-garde, doom-adjacent things.

You’ve got to give it your full attention and time. If you missed this too, I’d urge that you give it a listen.