Review: Necroccultus – The Afterdeath Blackness

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 28th April 2026 Mexican necrotic death metallers Necroccultus have been powering their way through a pile of underappreciated releases in the underground for over twenty years, and their new record, ‘The Afterdeath Blackness’, should by all that is fair be the one to finally push them into the sickly light of day for more people. It is out now through Terror from Hell Records, and provides a firm reaffirmation of their decades of experience providing the truest and darkest of old school death metal. A haunting yet deeply savage and guttural death metal record, ‘The Afterdeath Blackness’ is furious and relentless, but is surrounded in this murky occult atmosphere that seeps into the riffs and the cavernous, echoing growls that swirl about. Musically they are tight, fast and full of little Morbid Angel-isms, with uneasy solos spraying off into the void and eerie lead guitar lines spiralling into the abyss. ‘Dread Midnight Eternities’ has a few…