Biography - The imagery and texts of anguish and suffering..
Consecration Are (L-R)
Jorge Figueiredo - Drums and Percussion
Liam Houseago - Guitars
Daniel Bollans - Vocals
Andy Matthews - Guitars
Mathew Bollans - Bass
“...Consecration are a Death/Doom Metal band from Norwich, UK. Formed in 2010, they have enchanted fans worldwide with their unique blend of brutally heavy doom and old school death metal...
The combination conjures forth the haunting sounds of death, darkness and despair...”
'Exanimis'
We completed recording our fourth album at the renowned Priory Studios, Birmingham, during March 2025 and released the album May 2026 through Nuclear Winter Records.
Photoshoot for this album has been handled by Tina Korhonen, with mixing and mastering by Greg Chandler.
We have a number of guest spots on this album, including two guest vocal appearances by Paul Jones (Enchantment) and Greg Chandler (Esoteric), with a guest solo by Rich Mumford (Malediction).
The second single 'Submerged In Sand' had an exclusive premiere with Toilet Ov Hell.
Supporting the release we have a number of shows - including our exclusive album launch show with Smouldering Tomb and Tomb Slab, 4 UK festival appearances at Blastonbree Festival with Korpse and Amputated, Barker's Blastfest with Desecration, Malediction, Absolution and Blasphemer, One For Sorrow Festival and Deadsoul Festival both with Finnish doom titans Shape Of Despair.
'Reanimated (Re-Release)’
We had a bespoke hand-made limited edition art cassette of 2021's 'Reanimated' EP, in 2 exclusive variations.
This special edition was produced by Cryptic Blood Records and released in February 2025, all copies sold out within 2 hours of being made available for sale!
‘Ephemerality (Re-Release)’
Due to high demand, our 1st Album 'Ephemerality' (which was out of print for a while) was re-released and repackaged with exclusive new artwork through Cavernous Records in July 2023.
During this period we performed with Asphyx on their only UK show in London in 2024, supported The Crawling and Spanish Death metal act Jade. We also had a fantastic time playing the first edition of Dead Of Winter Festival in Scotland with Penny Coffin, Brainbath and Malediction.
‘Cinis’
Our third album ‘Cinis’ was released on 17th June 2022, after having signed to Redefining Darkness Records in the U.S., who handled both CD and Vinyl formats, with Life After Death Records producing a cassette version.
Dave Ingram (Benediction / ex Bolt Thrower) is a very special guest vocalist on the track 'Ground To Ashes'.
We also had the privilege of working with Tina Korhonen for the photoshoot, and mastering was provided by Greg Chandler (Esoteric) at Priory Studios. Zero Tolerance Magazine had an exclusive premiere of the single 'The Charnel House', with Decibel Magazine doing a premiere of 'The Dweller In The Tumulus'.
'Cinis' received great press reviews; including a 5/6 in Zero Tolerance Magazine, 9/10 from Metal Forces, 4/6 in Scream Magazine, 8/10 in Distorted Sound Magazine, 9.3/10 from Metal Factory, and an 8.5/10 on Blabbermouth.net from Dom Lawson.
Supporting the album’s release; we played our album launch show at Boston Music Rooms as a joint event with Esoteric on their 30th Anniversary show, and also performed at UK Deathfest September 2022 alongside Cancer, Benediction, Memoriam, Thanatos, Massacre, Morta Skuld, Immolation, Autopsy and many more.
‘Reanimated’
November 2021 saw us unleash a special EP entitled 'Reanimated' which was released via Cavernous Records. Featuring revamped and updated versions of two tracks from our debut EP and a completely reworked version of an unreleased demo from 2010 / 2011.
‘Fragilium’
During the summer 2019, we released our critically acclaimed sophomore album 'Fragilium' on Solitude Productions.
'Fragilium' was mastered by Marcus Stock (The Vision Bleak / Empyrium), and album photography by Ester Segarra.
This has had great attention with over 23000 views via the label since its release that July, and fantastic reviews such as 8/10 from Necromance Magazine, 8/10 from Metal Temple, and 4/6 in Zero Tolerance Magazine.
You can check it out at this link:
‘Ephemerality’
Our first album ‘Ephemerality’, originally released in 2014 on UKEM Records - has recently been repressed and re-released through Cavernous Records July 2023, repackaged with new exclusive artwork.
We also had tracks from ‘Ephemerality’ combined with our debut EP ‘Gut The Priest’ from 2010, alongside some unreleased material on 2018’s extensive anthology compilation ‘Remembrance’.
Live:
You can also check out a video diary of our performance at Under The Doom Festival, Portugal 2019 with Paradise Lost and Daylight Dies here:
And also a recent very intimate live show with Coffin Mulch here: