Review by Jeger on December 10, 2024.

Prepare to call malediction's blasphemous curses into the unholy night upon the wisp of conjurations and necromancies most abominable, for England's Necromaniac have emerged from the void; casting their destructive emanations upon our world through the pestilential gale of black / death metal of occult-worshipping magnitude. Metal of death! Morbid tales of grande summonings under Huntress Moon, skulls, Daemons and black magick to stir up from within your innermost spirit a tempest of defiling rage. Take heed! The dead walk this night - stalking mortal avenues - cursed and bound by spell. On January 13, 2025, Necromaniac will release Sciomancy, Malediction & Rites Abominable via Invictus Productions / The Anja Offensive.

This is no feeble debut, not an aspiring effort or some feeling-their-way-around-the-scene LP. With Sciomancy, Malediction & Rites Abominable, Necromaniac establish a tyrannical grip upon the sphere of black / death with baleful passages, imposing atmosphere, thrash-laden ferocity and contributions by a few different guest musicians; most notably Primordial's AA Nemtheanga. A sacrilegious birthing of Daemon seed soundtracked by diabolical album cuts: 'Daemonomantia' and 'Conjuration Of St. Cyprian'. The former harnesses the raged energy of Satan; unleashing it to fevered riffs, blast-beats and war drums. The latter is a ritualistic blasphemy to call forth and to defile the beheaded Zealot of Christ on this eve of forbidden magick. It's like they've been at it for decades. Masterfully crafted, highly visual and morbid blackened metal that ravages innocence and rapes the meager. No living soul within The Three Lions is safe! The vilest evil has been set loose - wickedness of Evil Dead proportions - writhing in the throes of malice.

Sciomancy, Malediction & Rites Abominable culminates with the lengthy 'Necromancess / Cauda Draconis': violating, wretched and purely fucking evil, this epically composed masterpiece in and of itself evokes images of morbid Witches - hag-wenches of the blackest craft - vomiting their curses into the acrid atmosphere of a smoldering woodland canopy. Moon lost to the stench-ridden fog of necromancy most foul.

Black / death for the reveling in the very most taboo magick and for the worship of the dead is Sciomancy, Malediction & Rites Abominable. Necromaniac proving to be a formidable force upon the UK blackened metal scene and it's only the beginning. With influences ranging from Black Witchery to Watain and even "Pentagram" era Gorgoroth, SM&RA is a full load of the most brutal occult-inspired black / death metal shot down your wanting gullet in the name of resurrection's imprecation. There is no beauty here: no magnificence or divinity, no grandeur or majesty, only filth and grime. The most appalling inner workings of the occult explored and lain before you like red carpet unfolding into a chamber of rotten corpses awaiting their awakening. Exactly what the scene needs! Fresh and inspired art of the very darkest variety; criminal to the point of sheer depravity. Let the summonings commence! And may the dead have their way now as the wolves cry and as Warlocks cackle wild laughter into this most sinful night. Dig into this one like a fucking grave…

Rating: 8.5 out of 10