There can be no understating how challenging it can be to find replacement musicians when your band is a going concern but in 2021 it became clear that for Consecration they had finally found that missing piece of the puzzle in guitarist Andy Matthews when they resurrected a trio of long since buried cuts and
Sometimes unfinished business lingers at the back of the mind, a source of frustration that is marked on a list as something to resolve on a rainy day which never comes. For Consecration, the arrival of guitarist Andy Matthews who joined the ranks of the coven in early 2019 served a the prime opportunity revisit
On one cold autumn night Consecration entered their rehearsal studio and thundered through three prime examples of their new necromantic rituals, recording them raw and live in single takes. ‘Cast Down For The Burning MMXXI’ and ‘Gut The Priest MMXXI’ are black abominations, warped children of tracks that appeared on the band’s 2010 debut EP
