New updates for this site!!!!

Although the metal will be on other sites, this site will go back to being a site for noise/power electronics/prog/kraut/electronic/psyche etc. and will hopefully have more people working on it to keep it live. Expect big changes really soon and expect the dark and bizarre to show up again and in fuller detail.

Metal reviews and extreme stuff are now being featured at:

http://forbidden-magazine.com/2011/07/the-crypt-label-feature/

I'm now working heavily with this amazing underground zine that REALLY does cover underground stuff and the interviews/articles/reviews are insanely good and updated constantly so you get new NEWS and a better range of reviews than anywhere else, so check them out for the stuff that used to post here.

The link above is one of my recent label features that is essential for oldschool death metal nuts!!!

Marrow/Machetazo split 12” (Dysphoria Distro)

I worked with marrow last year when the Of Slaughter and Slime 7” was released on HPGD, and the boys were telling me about this project being in the works. Well, now it’s not only been released on 100 copies of silver vinyl, cut into the shape of a sawblade, and coated in blood splatter, which are now long gone, but also 400 copies of the black vinyl, cut into a saw blade still available. There’s also a bonus cover of Amebix’s “Axeman” !!!!! It’s only $12 to get this tool of the trade and start to further slash your brain into mush with the best of the filth these fiends can sling at us!!!! Pick up the Slaughter and Slime 7” too if you can swing it, that is a definite soon to be long sought after beginning of something ugly and timeless release.

“Testament to Dissection” seriously old school death metal, brutal, gore and violence loaded, down tuned, obliterating speeds, and that classic pig squeel!!!!! This track is about trying on human skin and severed limbs, it’s an Autopsy gore-orgy sped up a bit and just as putrid. This Baltimore band has been a fave of mine for their trademark sound, but here they seem to take it to another level of disgusting and revolting, not to mention completely awesome!!!! The bucket of pus continues to overflow, so take from it, bathe and rejoice, the truly heinous and ugly sounds will prevail!!!!

“El Torreon” sees a return to the more grindcore flesh peeling sound these guys are known for, expect something along the lines of Mortician fused with Incantation and Immolation, it’s a very dark and disturbing piece of murder and violence only fit for the die hards that can handle the noise and intensity with skillful execution. This band, hands down (because they hacked them off) is an execution by means of audio, these guys will have your viscera pulled out like the unwinding of tangled Christmas lights it’s that Goddamn intense!!!! Ahhhh, I cry from tears of joyful pain as the stench of the rotten and discarded pile and burn my eyes and nostrils like a snort of battery acid.

Support indie, support the loud, support the gruesome and ugly, and may your life be long and prosperous, Amen!!!!

https://store.dysphoriadistro.com/catalog/6

Hrizg – Inferno (Moribund Records 2011)

With barely enough time to recover from this Spanish acts Anthems to Decrepitude, released in May on Moribund, the next assault is already set to explode in July. I found Anthems… to be something worthy for the black metal realm in the traditional sense of black metal, in that it was haunting, violent, evil, primitive, but melodic and hypnotic without gimmick. I have to say that Inferno ups the bands place in my mind yet again, the ancient/cryptic/medieval occult atmosphere that makes black metal so powerful in its simplest forms, can still convey violence, benevolence and evil without waning to trends or image. This release shows a HUGE change in production and composition, the sound is richer and the rawness in tone is abandoned for clearer and deeper ones that really give the album as whole, a sense of omnipresence. You actually feel like your in some ruin of a temple and witnessing a ritual take place, the production and dynamics turn this release into an experience beyond simply listening, so play loud and let it take you somewhere else.

The album plays out in 5 parts, each a chapter in the Inferno: “The Awakening”, “To Yield Below the Frozen Sky”, “Shadowshield”, “Ars Goetia”, and “Conqueror of this Wooden Abyss”. The actual sound is hard to nail, it fits into the black metal genre well but draws no exact comparison to any one band, but I would say that fans of the old school who enjoy that ancient cavern feel without selling out violence for atmosphere will find something in this one compared to the usual “usual” or the avantgarde. There’s something very pagan, ritualistic, and anti Christian in the sound that feels real as opposed to contrived but is hard to describe in exact words. Hrizg is not simply another black metal band, there’s something more provocative and interesting to this one that makes one somewhat curious to see where Hrizg goes.

Aosoth - III (Agonia Records 2011)

Ugly, unmelodic melodies, screeching almost industrial distorted guitar tones, percussion that explodes as the combination of them with the guitars sounds like bombing raid sirens and artillery fire, but heard through some barbiturate induced state. That may turn many away, but it’s actually a compliment!!!! That ugly, awkward guitar tone that spread rapidly after Deathspell Omegas well known trilogy of “Si monumentum…” through “Fas…”, the one that sounds “out-of-tune”, combined with an almost power electronics hum and whirr of what sounds like symphonic audio clips from standard old horror films or a Latin Mass and a massive spiraling calamity spews forth war and devastation like none too many can.

All six tracks titled “I” through “VI”, unfold like a cinematic hurricane of aural chaos that’ll scare the Hell out of children and many adults, peel paint of the walls, and render the listener into a fit of the spins that’ll either result in the desire to kill and devote oneself to the darkside or horrendous vomiting from the force of the vortex. There’s dark ambient/Neo-classical elements to magnify the insanity and creepy haunting effect of the sounds, but never anything symphonic or remotely “melodic” in the traditional sense. The buzzing here is of a chainsaw heard through a morbid hallucination, this is definitely a mind fuck of a listen, but still manages to be actual black metal. Although ugly, and irritating to snobs and the ignorant, this album is a very unique and creative approach that will definitely appeal to the black metal horde that like the more militant and hate/violence fueled stuff. It’s convincingly sinister and reeking of diabolical tendencies and ideals, in other words, it’s exactly what it should be!!!

Forgotten Tomb - Under Saturn Retrograde

Under Saturn Retrograde is the 6th studio album for these Italians that manage to defy exact classification and avoid surrendering to confinement within a style that tends to hinder creativity. The phrase being used to promote this release, “Nihilistic Black Rock Unlimited”, which fits, but it’s surely more metal than rock, definitely black overall but not avantgarde/post/whatever stuff, but there’s also sludge,death metal, doom layers in here that’ll throw the most discerning listener off bit in gratitude for the well blended concoction. In all honesty, I don’t give two shits about What it is as long as it’s heavy, aggressive, and solid, which this one certainly is. At first listen you expect one thing and keep getting another, equally impressive, slap across your face with each new track.

My standout track is the opener “Reject Existence” with it’s melodic fusion of modern black metal aggression, hardcore/post hardcore metal riffing and rhythms, and something that really gets under you skin and stains your brain to “repeat…play…repeat…”. This track has the whole “dark melodic anthem that gets caught in your head and rips you ass open” all at once.

“Shutter” brings in some doom metal/sludge elements that is an essential in my book, as those are two styles that really lay close to my heart, but they still tend o keep things oozing forth a bit more rapidly to give us a tarpit brawl on speed as they still manage to cut through swamp moss with a nuclear powered chainsaw.

“Downlift” returns to the melodic upheaval of “Reject Existence” but with a bit of the iconic death metal guitar squeal and more moody and brooding atmosphere.

Who can miss the cover of “I Wanna Be Your Dog”? A personal favorite of mine, and a great cover keeping the ugly punk rock spirit of the Stooges and still managing to add a bit more power to it to blacken like a blow to the eye with coal crusted iron fist.

The two part “Under Saturn Retrograde” showcases more of a polished and unique modern black metal style, but never losing it enough into too much shine and not enough steel toe stomping to bruise it up. Some things, especially metal, were not meant to be pretty afterall.


Overall this release is solid and promising, uncompromising, unique, and still maintains its metallic roots. I’d be very hardpressed to call it black metal, as I tend to be with much these days, rock (generally meaning too whimpy to be metal most days), or anything specific. I guess I’d think of it as a band similar to Nachtmystium, where they just keep evolving into something dark, melodic, and unique, but never losing their intensity.

http://www.myspace.com/darknessinstereo
http://www.forgottentomb.com/
http://www.agoniarecords.com/

Southern Lord Records Summer releases 2011

Xibalba – Madre Mia Por Los Dias
These Southern California based slammers are a riot, guerilla warfare, and full on civil war contained in 12 tracks of sludge/death metal/Hardcore obliteration. I can really hear the Crowbar like sludge/metal aggression and hardcore roots, but have to say that it’s nothing recycled here. Of all three of the recent SL limited edition releases, this one fucked me up the most and the quickest, in fact I had to track down the label that recently did the vinyl edition and grabbed that one this morning.

Tracks like “Madre Mia” and “We Deserve to Die” showcase angular and almost “out of tune” chords that when running alongside the stomach churning rhythms and determined vocal outbursts form a massive arsenal of angst and doom.

“Times Up” opens up with a 911 call reporting a suicide and when the operator asks “who was the victim”, the reply is “I am”. Right after this opening the throbbing pulse of this bands upfront and aggressive approach just slams you into the floor.
I’ve been stressing my overworked brain to find out exactly what this band reminds me off, but I’m drawing huge blanks. That’s actually a good thing, it means that there’s something unique and yet comfortably familiar to this band that makes it stand out and also a safe and timeless investment. I wanted to say it reminded me of Indian (Slights and Abuse), the misanthropic sludge and sarcasm of 16 (“You Let Me Down Again”), and Kylesa (Static Tensions and Time Will Fuse it’s Worth), but the band itself is early death metal/grind with its pounding and chugging riffs and skull piercing jagged melodies and full frontal vocal onslaught. Whatever Xibalba is, it’s loud, brutal, well executed, and memorable.

There’s no getting around it, once you hear them you’ll not only remember Xibalba for years to come, but your vision will be blurred, your balance off, and your head will continue to throb for some time after the first bold introduction to them.
This version of the release is their S/T debut (vinyl on A389 Records) alongside songs from the Earthquake compilation.





Seven Sisters of Sleep – S/T
Another jawbreaker from the California wasteland featuring members of Arm and Sword of the Bastard God/Tafkata, bringing a short and blunt stoner fused hardcore massacre to the ears. Coming in at less than 20 minutes, the exhaustion from the listen will make you believe that you just completed the Iron Man in that amount of time and honestly, you’ll be psyched and ready to do it all over again right away…and you will. This is another essential one and the vinyl edition is available through A389, with the very limited cd through Southern Lord.






Planks – The Darkest of Grays/Solicit to Fall
The first time ever that these recordings are available on CD, and both of the full length 12”s from this German band together at last. This is one of the three that reminds me of the dissonance and despair heard and felt in the Masakari release last year, the gruff vocals expressive of frustration and need for revolt combined with crust/melodic hardcore and metal to yield something so resonating and dense that even Steven Hawking couldn’t describe it through some theory. At times the sounds will be morose and melodic, almost peacefully sad, and then there will be explosions of down-tuned diesel engine chugging rhythms and further explosions of decibel abusing and riot inducing chords that’ll inspire revolution in anyone. As a whole this is a vortex, spiraling violently out of control, to not be consumed is impossible. Here lay anthems of upheaval against the doom and despair of today’s world.

A389 Recordings Label Feature

A389 Recordings – one nuclear blast to the eardrums that can’t be missed!!!!!!
Recently yet another slam dunk of hardcore/metal/crust/doom/sludge hybrids being given the cd treatment from Southern Lord have also gotten the vinyl treatment from this indie/DIY label that is seriously an awesome find for anyone hooked on the heavy, but light on the disposable income. All vinyl range from $13.99-$19.99 typically, from this labels releases, and the shipping is cheap, plus many appear to come with a digital download card as well!!!!!

Anyway, I had to buy the Xibalba beast on vinyl and wound up blowing cash on other crusty/metal/hardcore ear bleeders that’ll make my cats, coworkers and neighbors duck for cover AGAIN!!!!

Preorders for July 2011:


Gravehill - Practitioners of Fell Sorcery 12”
6-tracks from the early line-up featuring Mike Apokalypse (Gehenna/Devil/Sangraal) on vocals and Shane BastardDemon (Devil/Penetration Panthers) on drums.



Witch-Lord - Atomizer in the Black Solarian
This one is my absolute must have!!!! Described as “Nightmarish almost psychedelic doom…” , limited to 250 copies on lime haze vinyl, and conceived and birthed by DC Grave (Gehenna).




Penetration Panthers – Perpetual 80’s 7” EP
DC Grave and Shane BastardDemon bring forth a taste of early 80’s punk ala Black Flag, with this 3-track taster to prep us for their upcoming full length.





Gehenna – Land of Sodom II/Upon the Gravehill deluxe 7” and CD
Re-issue of the rare Land of Sodom 7”, with some improvements, and a bonus CD.

Other A389 highlights:


Pulling Teeth: Baltimore based 90’s sludge/hardcore/Death Metal bastard children seek revenge through audio aggression and riffs so heavy that it’ll make Buzzoven fans involuntarily shit themselves from the intensity. Check out the audio samples for “Paranoid Delusions” at the link below and try not to take away shredding leads and melodies bringing you back to early 90’s death metal layered over classic Sabbath doom riffs and southern fried sludge vocal deliveries that’ll have you reaching for the XXX moonshine jug and wearing overalls and bashing someones head in. “Blood Wolves” is a full on hardcore, melodic and amphetamine overdosed machine that’ll have you seeing pink elephants on parade before the song inadvertently flips a U turn at warp speed into a melodic and slower stoner/sludge instrumental. This band really brings in a range of heavies and dynamics that can only be compared to having your head shoved down an American standard industrial strength toilet and given the old “swirly” that’ll suck the scalp right off you form the suction. Aggressive and obliterating just isn’t going to cut it when describing this bands sound, there’s too much depth here. Just think sludge/hardcore with some metal overtones and you’ll be well prepared!!!!

http://www.myspace.com/pullingteethmd


Rot in Hell: UK act that brings the early, glorious, and crude beginnings of death metal, into collision with crust (and fast paced sludge even) and a massive long dive into a very shallow pool of hardcore. If you’re going to have your head caved in from low-end pressure and inhumane decibel levels, then this is the band to do it.

I just picked up their “Hallways of the Always” 12”, and will also have to pick up their “As Pearls Before Swine” beer colored 12” in the near future as well. You really cannot justify missing out on any of this stuff!!!!

http://www.myspace.com/rotinhellband




Frightener: yet another UK export stinking of early death metal beginnings and bringing a melodic metallic hardcore edge to a touch of stoner aesthetic. It’s definitely metal, but what the hell it is EXACTLY is neither obvious or important…it’s the fact that it is annihilating to the senses and could easily stun a grizzly bear that’s just been enraged from having it’s genitals hooked up to a 12V battery, into temporary docile confusion.

I just picked up the “Guillotine” 12” and could not pass up the chance to let you all know about some of these amazing bands!!!!!

http://www.myspace.com/frightener



Oak: Baltimore based death doom band that takes the heart palpitating pulse and slow motion blunt force trauma familiar to fans of Burning Witch, throws in some vokiller work sort of like Coffins being listened to through a haze brought on by almost toxic levels of THC and Vicotin flavored with periodic screeching Burning Witch outbursts. Although incredibly slow, like drowning in quicksand as a time warp occurs simultaneously and seconds are drawn out to days, this is not drone doom for the headphones and intoxicated. The riffs are classic doom metal, slow and brooding, reverberating like an earthquake under the floor boards, and there’s enough variation in the tracks to keep even the most ADHD affected listener like myself hypnotized and sedated. This is essential for fans or Burning With, early Electric Wizard, Cough, early Ramesses, and just about anything ultra heavy, crawling, bludgeoning, and hypnotic through pure brutality.

http://www.myspace.com/oakdoom



Definitely check out this labels growing selection of releases and talent: http://www.a389records.com/catalog/

Other essentials: Integrity, Caulfield, Seraphim, Ringworm and nice growing distro.

Dungeon Prayers and Tombyard Serenades (Razorback Records 2011)

From the first moment that I’d heard this band on their split with Druid Lord I was instantly reminded of the haunting sounds of acts like Mephisto Waltz, Christian Death, early Dead Can Dance, and a chunk of my collection of obscure random neo-pagan/dark folk finds, but with some seriously raw distorted metal guitar. I’ve heard many things…many, many, many things, but nothing exactly like this band. To say that this band is exceptional is as pointless as farts stinking, urine staining, and hillbillies marry cousins, it’s just a fact that’s understood and accepted!!!

This two-piece cryptic horror/doom metal act consists of the haunting and supernatural incantations of Vanessa Nocera and the raw distorted and hypnotic guitar and drum work of Wayne Sarantopoulos and has to be one of the most ancient and distinctly satanic/pagan/occult sounding acts around period. The experience of listening to this band is that of witnessing a ritual being performed right there and recorded, the atmosphere and overall sensation of these songs is somewhere between an Edgar Allen Poe tale and a séance…if you’re flesh doesn’t turn cold and your bones don’t begin to shiver, you’re not listening to Wooden Stake. The back and forth between clean ethereal female vocals and demonic shireks and growls really grabs you by the throat, it’s fucking trippy and hypnotic.

So in summary, Wooden Stake defies all genres and categories and unveils a world of the supernatural, superstitious, spiritual, and absolutely raw, hollow and admiringly heavy. This album would be the perfect soundtrack for a classic horror film, black and white, spine tingling and just all around eerie.

With this full-length out on Razorback (U.S.) and the limited edition split 7” from Altsphere (France), prepare to journey into the true sounds of the occult and hand over your soul to join the damned. To my ears and mind this is a perfect 9-10 album and will absolutely appeal to doom heads, sludge heads, traditional cryptic Black Metal fans, and metal fans all around.


http://www.myspace.com/woodenstakedeath

Castle - In Witch Order (Van Records 2011)

U.S. metal act, Castle, simply put...SLAYS!!!! Possibly it’s the rough and aggressive female vocals balanced out with an uncertain seductiveness. I’m somewhat thinking of something like Pentagram and Pale Divine fronted by Reino Ermitano vocalist Tanya Duarte, but even that isn’t quite where this bands sound is. Although clearly doom like, this release is obliterating in terms of its bludgeoning thunder alone, the songs rip through you like a jigsaw across the bone…jagged, distinct, and deliberate with each cut, rattling your body as it does so, and it shows a unique classic metal and doom concoction that is not only unique but completely a ten-thousand ton monolith of melodies, riffs, percussion and literary/mystical/occultic themes.

I’ve honestly been trying to move on to some of the other new additions to my collection, but can’t escape from the vortex created by the spiraling hypnotic menace that is “In Witch Order”. There’s pure energy… heavy metal energy, doom weights, and a sexy rawness to each track that is unlike anything else!!!! Set for release in May by Van Records (Germany), this band will scorch most others into stinking black streaks along the parched Earth under their trampling hooves. Alongside Woodenstake this band is a staple of current U.S. metal talent and will hopefully be only previewing their potential to us with this release. The band will also be looking for a domestic label in the future so check into this one if you’re looking to expand your true metal roster!!!!!

www.heavycastle.com

Moribund Spring Label Feature

Dodsferd – Spitting With Hatred the Insignificance of Life
What to say about this project that hasn’t been said in it’s title and decade or so of audio misanthropy? Well, where progression with a band may render weakness and loss of the original potent hatred and angst, Dodsferd keeps it raw but somehow the once punkish cavern atmosphere of a psychopaths special lair has now taken a more melodic and outwardly intense stance. The best way to put it is that where the raw, emotional, and grim in black metal has become synonymous with suicide and isolation, and the melodic side has become almost EMO (puke!!!), Dodsferd has gone from swearing and plotting revenge in his dark place to take it to the streets and openly exact revenge on humankind. There’s more of a melodic vengeance and honest release of frustration that shows balls and integrity.

Just as Immortal, early Emperor, Mayhem and so many others could capture melody and full on belligerence without ever polishing the timelessly awe inspiring turd that made them great initially in those years, that was raw black metal in it’s purest glory. Any fan of the ways of old as many of you are alongside me, but want to hear something that captures that era and feel but is not a mere clone, will enjoy this release as much as I do. I’ve been a fan of this act for many years, although never following him intentionally, and have to say that this release is one of the more intoxicating releases of his to date. Definitely don’t miss out on this one, it’s misanthropy and vindication with some great dynamics.

The vocals range from cleaner shouts to the usual raspy wails of disgust amidst a clamor of percussion and chainsaw riffs buzzing like harvest time in a rainforest. The riffs themselves have an addictive rhythm that gets you hooked like a whore to crack, but then he throws in leads and solos on tracks like “Your Kingdom Was Built in a Lie” that blow harder than a holocaustal wind. The drumming is fucking amazing too, I’m not sure if that was a studio drummer and looped in, but who the hell cares when the tracks stomp and obliterate your senses like these do. This artist and his work is beast of it’s own as it is as natural and honest and never waning with trends or time.

Release date March 22,2011






Hrzig – Anthems to the Decrepitude
Spanish solo acts debut on Moribund shows that this label can still crank out a phenomenal cult album. I go back and forth some days with Moribunds catalog, some of it is a homerun out of the damn park and others are pop flys, but the little label keeps going strong through all the trends and economical bullshit because those true music lovers will always buy the hard copy and bands that are genuine these days stand out even more because they are so rare in places!!!!!

Anyway, Hrizg is a unique listen, while not entirely old school it has that dark cosmic void presence and supernatural sense that is now exploited into the shoe-gaze and EMO post-Burzum styles and runs with it back to the cauldron of doom and despair, but thriving with anger and power. The vocals are great for the style, they are raspy and deep in spots, giving the feel of a mantic necromantic chant as he curses and vows torture and malevolence to those around him. Fuck suicidal and self-pity solo shit, this stuff is soooo dense that it’s almost symphonic without keyboards and long passages. Think In the Nightside Eclipse, the dense and epic tracks that were so cinematic and just gargantuan, but still bastardized with the raw and unadulterated blackness, mist, and blood shed that nothing can escape the force of!!!!

While not as brilliant as ITNE, Hrizg is another one on this label that’s maintaining the atmospheric and mystical realm of black metal but keeping in mind that it is still black metal, ugly and violent, and not a cool sounding simple and effective way to play.

Release Date May 3,2011






Haeresiarchs of Dis – In Obsecration of the Seven Darks
I used to grab a hold of everything that remotely resembled Emperor (pre- Anthems era) and in doing so found some amazing bands, but years later when this US act hit my ears in 2010 it didn’t click with me and a few others because it is too much like old Emperor, almost literally at times. That in no way makes this band a clone or poser though, so don’t be swayed too easily by what we all write and hear ourselves.

With this 2011 release the similarities to old Emperor remain, but the subtle use of synth for cinematic effect and the varied range of dynamics and aggression in these tracks carry them into a new realm of warmongering and the occult. IOOTSD is an experience in itself honestly, it ranges from hypnotic ambient chants and metaphysical themes to full on battle and adrenaline fused explosions. There’s actually a lot of variation here in comparison to the predecessor, Denuntiatus Cinis. While I’m still completely sold that Inquisition is one of the most unique and accurately occult and mystical in sound and listening experience and my top pick these days, this act really brings a new direction to the melodic and epic black metal of old that sort of resurrects it without desecrating it as many others have.

Now that I’ve heard this band for another round I’m actually looking forward to what they will continue to develop into, and starting from strong Emperor is not a bad starting point either. I’d give this one a chance, it might blow your soul right out of your body or it might just simply sound like a decent release, but the chances of it being an absolute disappointment are slim so it’s a safe investment. There are a few surprises in places that come out of the shadows unpredictably and set the blood flowing.


Release Date April 19,2011





Satan’s Host – By the hand of the Devil
I’m bipolar when it comes to my music mood, one day it’s obscure U.S. power-prog metal, doom, grind/crust, and the list goes on to include shit like 70’s prog and Turkish psychedelic so when something catches me at the opportune time…it REALLY catches me as this one did.

This band is an insitution!!!! They’ve been around for decades, they have roots in essential 80’s acts like Jag Panzer, and they somehow mix Mercyful Fate/King Diamond horror/Satanic themes and epic vocals with hints of classic 80’s thrash in the riffs, and throw in a massive pile of classic Judas Priest here and there and that’s in one fucking track!!!!! I’m not going to go into details on this one, there’s no need to, if what’s been said isn’t enough to get your metal head saliva surfacing and your heart rate up then there’s no hope for you. Just buy this fucker and experience it for yourself!!!! This one truly does HAVE IT ALL!!!!!

http://www.satanshost.com/

Release date May 3,2011

Omision - In the Shadow of the Cross (Chaos Records 2011)

Although just in the last decade these guys have been gradually rising from the decrepit soil covering the grueling pit of old school death metal this Tijuana based act has been active and slaughtering since ’93 and I’d be seriously delusional if I didn’t hear and feel 1993 and earlier in these battleaxe anthems. This album is best summed up as a collection of whiplash pit anthems of unrelenting speed and monstrosity spiraling out of control as the leads shred flesh and the rhythms pound and crush out all light and life leaving nothing but a freezing black void.

Each track comes at you mean and full of violent intentions, like a hurricane of thrash paced riffs, gruff but decipherable vokills reeking of death and decay, nuclear devastating rhythms that’ll convert lead into dust as they have the strength to penetrate that deep and heavy, and the downtuned riffage can be felt miles beneath the Earth’s crust…possibly into the core!!!! You can see the death toll rise as each track unfolds one after another, seething with blasphemy and swathed in crimson sweat.

For fans of: Malevolent Creation, Incantation, Massacre, Sepultura, Deicide, Morbid Angel, and everything classic death metal that is as brutally intense as it is rhythmic and yet still melodic.