{"product_id":"khnvm-cosmocrator","title":"Khnvm - Cosmocrator [Blue and black marbled]","description":"\u003cp\u003eCosmocrator is Khnvm's fourth album, a blue and black marbled vinyl wrapper of death metal that references Christopher Hitchens and Carl Jung as source material rather than mere adornment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLed by Bangladeshi-born guitarist and singer Obliterator and based in Germany, Khnvm arrived in 2019 with the critically acclaimed Foretold Monuments of Flesh, then built a real reputation on stage thanks to Portals to Oblivion two years later. This album pushes their project further into deliberately difficult territory, balancing the brutality of old-school death metal with something more contemporary in its structure, while the lyrics draw directly from Hitchens' God Is Not Great and Jung's Mysterium Coniunctionis to explore the tension between rationality and mysticism rather than settling for one or the other. The title itself has a dual meaning: ruler of the world and, in religious vocabulary, a name for Satan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePurgatorial Pyre opens the album with over six minutes, establishing the album's patience before the aggression fully kicks in. Fetid Eden is even longer, the clearest demonstration of the band's ambition, and Venom Spawn is the most unforgiving track on the album, the riffs stacked with real menace. The title track condenses the entire concept into four dense minutes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeath metal designed to be studied as well as headbanged. Khnvm clearly wants both.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vinylestore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67910336118861,"sku":"884388890374","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0796\/9131\/7325\/files\/4438988-3411431.jpg?v=1794005703","url":"https:\/\/vinylestore.shop\/products\/khnvm-cosmocrator","provider":"Vinylestore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}