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EGREGORE
It Echoes In The Wild

20 Buck Spin (2026)
Rating: 8.5/10

It Echoes In The Wild is the second full-length from Canadian trio Egregore, a Vancouver-based band featuring Catastrophe Saturna (aka Sebastian Montesi; guitar and vocals), Helios Thread (aka Phil Fiess; bass and vocals) and Essentia Collapse (aka Shawn Haché; drums and vocals).

This is one of those chaotic, atmospheric and absorbing albums that take more than a few listens to fully explore and appreciate its depths. The solos throughout are simply feral, weaving and squirming with a perverse and ghoulish glee. There’s a maddening approach to each track; lead single, ‘Stair Into The Vortex’, is a foul blitz of black n’ death marrying with doses of hellish speed metal thrown in for good measure. The vocals are gasps of horror, punctuated by extra satanic snaps from sticksman Essentia Collapse.

‘Servants Of The Second Death’ hits with further icy rushes, an extreme amalgamation of extreme styles woven to form a wiry quilt of aggression and blasphemy. There’s no missing the psychotic black metal fury given deeper meaning and weight with slight veering towards zany death metal, but it’s all enshrouded by a cold fog of arrogance and snarling wickedness.

‘From The Yawning Crevasse Shrieks A Transmorphic Gale’ is a demented and downright uncontrollable pit of ravenous spits and flailing limbs. There are constant, unassailable shifts between utterly destructive percussive hammers and spiralling solos which in total frenzy pierce the freezing night like wayward cries from some ghastly, wailing apparition.

‘Corsairs Of The Daath Gulf’ begins with hyper militant drumming, bringing to mind Norway’s Mayhem before a smashing selection of measured chugs and a sneaking melody comes to the fore, teasing us into a further whirlwind of hyper horror. Again, there’s that mix of blackened speed and at times churning dry thrash, particularly with ‘Voice On The West Wind’, but the spite is dominant with each seething composition of utmost cruelty. ‘Nightmare Cartographer’ is a despicable expression of speed, as once again the structures are delivered like psychotic episodes yet without necessarily jarring or dazzling, instead dragging you into the shredder.

A frenzied yet masterful creation, It Echoes In The Wild is a fiendishly wicked, maniacal and spiteful spit of an opus that takes a while for you to appreciate, but at its root it’s quite an astonishing anomaly.

Neil Arnold

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