Chilean black/death metal band Invocation streams the entirety of its debut full-length, The Archaic Sanctuary (Ritual Body Postures), officially out tomorrow, 20 September, via Iron Bonehead Productions.

Only in early 2018 did Invocation release The Mastery Of The Unseen EP through Iron Bonehead. Although only two songs, The Mastery Of The Unseen was presciently titled for the Chilean power-trio made masterful strides since its debut CDR in 2016 and the extremely promising Seance Part. I demo released later that year.

Exhibiting the same sulfurous energy as the first works but now displaying a uniquely feral poise, that two-song salvo set the stage for yet another presciently titled work in early 2020: Attunement To Death, again released by Iron Bonehead. Indeed with this mini-album did Invocation reach a hellish harmony with its classic South American diabolism, but on Attunement To Death, the band imbued it with an ever-deeper - and ever-more-unique - aspect that bountifully displayed its authentic grounding in the occult.

At long last, nearly a decade after its formation, Invocation unleashed its full-length debut: The Archaic Sanctuary (Ritual Body Postures). Upon first blush, thankfully, very little has changed in the Chileans' sound; restless, roiling, and most definitely ripping, its teeth-gnashing gnarliness is squarely situated between black metal and death metal, with no compromise nor fence-sitting to be found. But, where the mini-length predecessor saw the trio exhibiting confidence to spare, The Archaic Sanctuary (Ritual Body Postures) utterly explodes with it. Tight yet loose, wild yet locked-in, primitive constructions played with flowing finesse. Invocation's songwriting and execution have mostly stayed the same but somehow grown to enviable proportions, punishing mind and body with oft-overwhelming and yet always-mesmerizing metal brewed in the cauldrons of the ancient and occult. This is exactly the sort of debut album Invocation needed to deliver: canvassing past, present, and future and fittingly framing it with another gritty analogue recording rich with sulfurous fire and sepulchral echoes.

It was only a matter of time before Chile's Invocation delivered a debut album to capitalize on the massive potential it displayed in its short lengths. With The Archaic Sanctuary (Ritual Body Postures), the band can now enter the hallowed ranks of fellow cult countrymen Unaussprechlichen Kulten, Force Of Darkness, Slaughtbbath, and the sorely missed Hades Archer for standard-bearers of classic South American madness. Link