Rigor Sardonicous is an American

United States

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 death inspired doom metal

Doom metal

Doom metal is an extreme form of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other metal genres...

 band from Long Island, New York. Coined as "raw, apocalyptic doom", Rigor Sardonicous is one of the earliest American doom metal bands that are still active today among Novembers Doom

Novembers Doom

Novembers Doom is a death/doom metal band from Chicago, Illinois. They are currently signed to The End Records. Novembers Doom is one of the earliest U.S. death/doom metal bands that are still active today along with Evoken and Rigor Sardonicous....

 and Evoken

Evoken

Evoken is an American funeral doom metal band from Lyndhurst, New Jersey, that is influenced by the Australian band Disembowelment and the Finnish band Thergothon. The band name Evoken was taken from the Thergothon song found on the Fhtagn nagh Yog-Sothoth demo. The band was founded by guitarist...

. The band members are committed to unearthing the darkest, deepest funereal doom sounds imaginable since coming together in 1988.
According to the interview the band is influenced by slow parts of death metal bands like Obituary

Obituary (band)

Obituary is an American death metal band formed in 1984 in Tampa, Florida under the name Executioner, then changed the name's spelling to Xecutioner, and later changed their name to Obituary in 1988. The band comprises vocalist John Tardy, drummer Donald Tardy, guitarists Trevor Peres and Ralph...

, Winter

Winter (band)

Winter is an American death/doom band from New York. They take their name from the Amebix song of the same name. The band will be performing at the 2011 Roadburn Festival in the Netherlands.-Members:Line-Up* John Alman - vocals, bass...

 and Autopsy

Autopsy (band)

Autopsy is a death metal band, founded in 1987 in the United States by Chris Reifert. They disbanded in 1995, but have reunited as of July 2009.-Biography:...

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Pursuant to the information that is given on the official forum, the band is writing a new album which will be called "Ego Diligio Vos". The release date is currently undetermined.

Discography

• Risus Ex Mortuus
  Risus Ex Mortuus
  Risus Ex Moruus is an album by the US doom metal band Rigor Sardonicous. It was released in 1994 and then re-recorded by the band and re-released in 2006 by a Russian label Endless Desperation.-Track listing:# "Prooemium" – 2:04...
  
  (CD, 1994, Self-released, re-released by Endless Desperation, 2006)
• Apocalypsis Damnare
  Apocalypsis Damnare
  Apocalypsis Damnare is an album by the US doom metal band Rigor Sardonicous. It was released in 1999 and re-released in 2005.- Track listing :# "Exordium" – 3:44# "Apocalipsis Damnare" - 7:03# "Pandemic" – 6:59# "Human Rot" – 5:54...
  
  (CD, 1999, Self-released, re-released by Paragon Records, 2005)
• Principia Sardonica
  Principia Sardonica
  Principia Sardonica is an album by the US doom metal band Rigor Sardonicous.-Track listing:# "In Autumn Twillight" – 03:43# "The Dead" - 07:04# "Sleepless" – 05:37# "Risus Ex Mortuus" – 08:03# "Phases of Death" – 06:57...
  
  (CD, 2004, Paragon Records)
• Amores Defunctus Tuus Mater (CD split w/Dimentianon, Largactyl Records, 2007)
• Vallis Ex Umbra De Mortuus
  Vallis Ex Umbra De Mortuus
  Vallis Ex Umbra De Mortuus is an album by the US doom metal band Rigor Sardonicous.-Track listing:# "Mane De Maeroris" – 01:33# "Siens Somnium" - 07:02# "Incompertus quod Anon" – 05:28# "Laudare Apocalypsis" – 04:22# "Alveus De Somnus" – 04:18...
  
  (CD, LP, 2008, Paragon Records)
• Vivescere Exitium (Live recording. Free digital download off main website, Distoare Music, 2009)
• Ego Diligio Vos (CD, February 2012)

External links

• Official Site http://www.smilingdeath.com
• Facebook Page
• Official Rigor Sardonicous Forum
• [ Rigor Sardonicous at allmusic]
• Rigor Sardonicous at LastFM