***"PNEUMA HAGION returns to the cursed material realm with their second full-length treatise Demiurge. A thematically coherent work, this offering explores the Gnostic idea of the Demiurge. According to Gnostic mythos, this malevolent deity takes the name Yaldabaoth and imprisons man in an inherently corrupt terrestrial world. While Gnostic symbolism is heavily employed, Pneuma Hagion avoid dogmatic reiterations and instead use the Gnostic cosmology as a metaphor for man’s struggle against the incarnate, corporeal misery of his earthly existence. Heavy low-end frequencies throb through this audial void, evoking a thick ferocity that brings to mind Incangation and mid-era Morbid Angel. Pneuma Hagion's proprietor R is joined on this recording by drummer Shane Elwell, whose precise work primes a bleak canvas for R’s guttural, deliberately intoned vocal performance. Literate, apocalyptic, and heavy to a disturbing degree, DEMIURGE is a standout release of 2022."—P. Lautensleger
LP $20.50
11/04/2022
***BACK IN STOCK!!! Pneuma Hagion once again joins forces with Nuclear War Now! Productions to release its debut full-length, “Voidgazer.” The band and label first collaborated in 2015 to bring forth the first Pneuma Hagion demo, “Trinity I,” and resumed their allegiance approximately three years later with the release of the “Trinity” LP, which compiled that original demo and the two ensuing demos in the series. Like the earlier recordings, “Voidgazer” presents a starkly monolithic variety of death metal that reflects the emptiness personified in the title. The sound itself evokes the same stifling oppressiveness of Incantation and Immolation, as it alternates between fast tempos and bludgeoning doom passages, firmly aligning itself with one of the most revered schools of U.S. death metal. Perhaps most impressively, all instruments and vocals are performed by the lone member of Pneuma Hagion, unassumingly known as R., whose gnostic reflections pervade the lyrics that are animated by his own tortured voice. The sum of these nine tracks is certain to endear “Voidgazer” to any dedicated adherent to the worship of the bleakness of human existence.
LP $19.25
12/04/2020
***A collection of the three Pneuma Hagion demos in the “Trinity” series, along with the four tracks from the “Rituals of Extinction” EP. For fans of abyssal, cavernous death metal in the style of Incantation and Immolation.
LP $19.95
05/03/2019