It feels like we either live in some sort of hell or that the world is disintegrating before our eyes as swaths of leadership around the globe delve further into authoritarianism. Yeah, that’s good for the power structure that answers to no one, but if you have your head screwed on straight, it is agony waking up every day.

Polish death crushers Clairvoyance’s debut full-length “Chasm of Immurement” doesn’t address that directly, that being the crumbling state of the world. But the dread and hell and misery that’s attached? Yeah, they serve that up in abundance with devastating, doom-infested death metal that feels like it collects all its disgust to hurl back at whatever target these choose. The band—vocalist Maciej Cesarczyk, guitarist/vocalist Denis Didenko, guitarist Kacper Pawluk, bassist Vlad Levchenko, drummer Adrian Szczepański—piles pressure and madness into six tracks and 34 minutes that ravage fully and make a case for them being hailed as one of the next new death metal bands to help carry the banner.

“Eternal Blaze” opens in buried growls and then begins to trudge with force, guitars punishing as the burly attack gets under way. The fury mounts as growls corrode, speeding up as the carnage ravages in full, leaving ash behind. “Hymn of the Befouled” has guitars tangling and battering, cavernous growls reaching into your guts, spacious leads taking off from there, infusing atmosphere. Leads snarl as the drums come unglued, the band churning and smothering until a fiery end. “Fleshmachine” is a driving menace, the drums marring as the growls engorge, the guitars electrifying and dominating. The leads blaze as the drums splatter, guttural growls taking you apart as the pace rushes, and feedback burns everything to a crisp.

“Reign of Silence” is doomy as hell, growls turning things more vicious, the playing blistering and pulling you through the mud. The death strains flex harder, mauling as the growls churn, the leads attain a nuclear glow, and everything ends in a deadly downward spiral. “Blood Divine” erupts, growls gurgling, the leads intensifying the heat, mangling into a bloody assault. The band goes thrashier, the pace destroying as growls boil and the guitars add an extra bed a flames to the proceedings. Closer “Monument to Dread” enters amid violent drumming, mashing growls, and a monstrous push into daggers and cragged rocks. The bass drives as the pace mauls slower, the guitars tearing through flesh walls, sinking in their teeth. Growls maim as the drums pulverize, the last scorching wave of power eating through bone.

“Chasm of Immurement” might be Clairvoyance’s first full-length, but it lands mightily, confidently, morbidly, like a band that’s been at this longer than they have. The darkness and the physical and mental torment that helped inspire these songs are deep and entrenched, helping you get a taste of each swath of suffering. This is a devastating debut that should carve a path for this band to sit among death metal’s up and coming leaders.

For more on the band, go here: https://www.facebook.com/clairvoyancedeathmetal

To buy the album, go here (U.S.): https://carbonizedrecords.merchtable.com/search?q=CLAIRVOYANCE%2F

Or here (Europe): https://carbonizedrecordseu.com/

For more on the label, go here: https://carbonizedrecords.bandcamp.com/