TZOMPANTLI - Tlayohualli (From ’Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force’ LP, 2024)

TZOMPANTLI Tlayohualli From ’Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force’ LP / CD / TAPE / DIGITAL Releasing May 17th, 2024 1. Tetzahuitl 2. Tlayohualli 3. Tlaloc Icuic 4. Chichimecatl 5. Tetzaviztli 6. Otlica Mictlan 7. Icnocuicatl With first album ’Tlazcaltiliztli’, Tzompantli called forth a penetrating strike of Death and Doom Metal like a poisoned arrow through the heart. The band’s foundation in Indigenous / Native rituals, history and lore, and merging of traditional instruments into their sound made for one of 2022’s most uniquely voiced metal records. Now Tzompantli have again been summoned from the smoke of the ancient fires with a new offering at the altar of human sacrifice, ‘Beating the Drums of Ancestral Force’. Fearsomely brutal marches of war-like, percussive Death Metal are contrasted with melancholy passages of