While becoming one of the premier underground metal labels, Profound Lore has avoided becoming aligned with any one specific genre or sound, covering the realms of everything from metallic prog (Hammers Of Misfortune, The Atlas Moth) to adventurous black metal (The Howling Wind, Leviathan) to doom (Yob, Loss) to more experimental heaviness (Krallice, Subrosa, Grayceon) with their catalog of releases, but one sound in particular is obviously a favorite of the labels, that of murky, off-kilter subtearranean death metal. Some of the best albums/bands of this kind have appeared on Profound Lore in recent years like Disma, Portal, Mitochondrion, Vasaeleth and Impetuous Ritual. The latest addition to this corner of the Profound Lore roster is another Canadian band called Antediluvian, a three piece from Edmonton, Canada, but prior to releasing their new album Through The Cervix Of Hawaah, they put out this three song 12" on the Bird Of Ill Omen label earlier this year. The twisted, mutant death metal on the songs "Demon Spore", "At The Swirling Spouts Of Uncreation", and "Rapture Amongst The Phosphenes" is rank, cavernous, a strain of slippery, monstrous blackened death metal that shifts from highly angular, dissonant death metal to passages of warped deathdoom and flurries of bizarre riffage that consists of lots of sliding notes and convoluted alien chords. While not as avant-garde or outright bizarre as bands like Portal and Ehnahre, this is still some very messed-up stuff, blending together the doomed dissonance of Incantation with a highly chaotic and idiosyncratic blackened death attack. They've got a great visual style too, with the album art consisting of abstract, black and white drawings of grotesque Lovecraftian beings and vile mutant sexual organs, a look that fits nicely with Antediluvian's repulsive alien death metal.