DARK HORIZON RECORDS, in conspiracy with PARAGON RECORDS, proudly unveils the 30th Anniversary Edition of "The Senectuous Entrance", the long-buried and fiercely cult second album from American Blackened Death Metal entity DETERIORATE.
Originally released in 1996 and unseen for three decades, this enigmatic relic of the U.S. underground has been fully remastered by Tore Stjerna at the legendary NECROMORBUS STUDIO (Sweden) —the same architect behind landmark works from MAYHEM, WATAIN, FUNERAL MIST, DESTRÖYER 666, LEVIATHAN, T.O.M.B., and countless others. His mastering breathes new life into the album’s oppressive atmosphere while preserving the raw, unhinged spirit of the original recording.
This anniversary edition features a newly enhanced layout by Lord Typhus (DHR), including:
A reimagined version of the original album cover
Restored and expanded booklet pages
Era-accurate band photos
Lyrics for "The Senectuous Entrance" tracks
As an exclusive bonus, the release includes an unreleased alternate version of "Devoured" —a lost track from the "Rotting In Hell" era, finally unearthed after decades in obscurity.
After 30 years submerged beneath the surface of the underground, "The Senectuous Entrance" returns in its most definitive form. This is an essential resurrection of a truly cult Blackened Death Metal artifact, a must-have for collectors of U.S. early-wave Old School Death Metal and early-wave Black Metal filled with extremity for true devotees of the obscure.
DETERIORATE emerged in 1991 from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania underground, quickly carving out a place among the early wave of U.S. Death Metal. The band first announced their presence with the 1992 self-titled demo "Deteriorate", a raw and forceful statement that led to a deal with the now-defunct cult label JL America. In 1993, they unleashed the revolutionary and critically praised old-school death metal album "Rotting In Hell", a release that has since become a cornerstone of early ’90s American Death Metal.
In 1994, the band followed with their second demo, "Gather the Nebbish", further refining their sound while remaining firmly rooted in the underground ethos. Two years later, DETERIORATE resurfaced with a new label home, this time signing to Pulverizer Records / Diehard Music Worldwide and released their second full-length, "The Senectuous Entrance" (1996). Although the album went largely unnoticed upon release, it has since become one of the many lost relics of the U.S. extreme-metal deep underground: obscure, uncompromising, and fiercely cult.
DETERIORATE officially disbanded in 1997, but its members continued to leave their mark on the American extreme-metal landscape. Vocalist J. Gannon briefly joined GOREAPHOBIA before forming the experimental U.S. black-noise entity T.O.M.B. Guitarist John "Thorous" Bosman later created the cult U.S. Black Metal project TREADING ON DIVINE as well as briefly joining SIL VETH as bassist for a short period.
Though their existence was brief, DETERIORATE’s legacy remains firmly etched into the fabric of early American underground metal —raw, obscure, and forever resonant with those who seek the true depths of the 1990s extreme-metal era.
"The Senectuous Entrance" is a whirlwind of high-speed, atmospheric, grinding black metal mutating into the old school death metal ferocity. On this album, DETERIORATE reach toward the grand, windswept majesty of the early European style, yet filter it through the uniquely American strain of OSDM with extremity and urgency, grinding violence, and death metal weight. The result is a volatile hybrid: ambitious, musically adept, and at times so conceptually dense that its very intensity threatens to collapse under its own shadow, leaving only the most devoted listeners standing.
A sound steeped in the influence of blacker titans such as Sacramentum, Marduk, Immortal, Dissection, and Dawn, the early half of "The Senectuous Entrance" surges with cold, high-speed black-metal grandeur. As the album progresses, its foundations shift toward the deep, violent pulse of bands like Necrophobic, Brutality, Malevolent Creation, and Morbid Angel, revealing the band’s death-metal roots in full force. Across its entire span, DETERIORATE capture the exact moment where death metal’s brute physicality collides with black metal’s cold spiritual vastness, forging a hybrid that remains as enigmatic as it is extreme.
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