Review by Rexorcist for Cabinet - Deracinated Into Soiled Reliquaries (Sarcophagus Odyssey) (2026)

Lots of black metal bands like to kickstart their albums with some slow build up. And then you have Cabinet, who's like, "Nope. I'ma shove a dump truck full of dirt on top of your head. Here's music that sounds like a corpse is digging back to the surface and growling while the earth keeps getting stuck in its mouth. Then halfway through the first track, we get guitars that sound like the music that plays when flies are buzzing around you in the cartoons, expect the flies are gonna kill you. But because of the heavier focus on the noise factor, there's less melody and more chugging than usual, at least there is when the war metal takes the stage. When you have the doomy stuff with the creppy chanting in "Precipitating Pneumonoconiosis In The Cremation Cellar," (I totally copy/pasted that) there's more "songwriting" involved. And out guy's going a little crazier with the sound effects this time. He ends one track with the bubbling sounds of having your head forced underwater, one track ends with collecting wheezings and coughs, and there is one disturbing narration that I won't ruin for you. But overall, this album may be more of the same at its core, but its war metal is dirtier and its clearer edges are smoother. Definitely has a lot of replay value.

90