Perverts! Welcome back to my lair. This week we have an earth shattering array of death metal.
TOMB MOLD - Planetary Clairvoyance
Available July 19 via 20 Buck Spin
Toronto's Tomb Mold wasted no time unleashing the furious follow-up to last year's Manor of Infinite Forms, which catapulted itself to many best of 2018 lists, including this grim author's. Planetary Clairvoyance shows the band's evolution as songwriters, despite the quick turnaround time, while they retain the fearsome brutality that makes them such a force to be reckoned with.
The title track kicks off with a thrashy, punk beat, accompanied by a gutteral "OH" that reminded me of Celtic Frost at hyperspeed. This album will certainly summon a circle of the tyrants in the most pit when they hit the road in the cumming days.
My personal favorite is "Accelerative Phenomenae," an infectiously groovy riff colored in the most flattering shades of Morbid Angel, Nile and Bolt Thrower, that culminates with a nasty guitar leader over it's signature hook for maximum devil horns.
No doubt this album will once again land in many year-end lists for 2019.
COVERED IN SORES - Blown To Bits Demo
Available now via the newly minted Savage Mutilation tape label
Philadelphia's Covered in Sores is a napalm-smothered super group featuring key players from Heavy Temple, Narcos Family Band and Hivelords. They blitzed the metal world with 2018's Militaristic Cannibalism demo tape, a 10-minute barrage of old-school grindcore.
Blown To Bits is an excellent retaliatory strike that will leave you shellshocked, and possibly dripping with blood and excrement. This is filthy death metal delivered, with laser-guided efficiency. Its six songs clock in at around 8 minutes total. It's a musical quickie with a few really rowdy punk rock moments, a hallmark of the special flavor of gritty street metal that characterizes Philadelphia's extreme music scene.
Necrosexual's pick for this record is "Krokodil Tears," a hilarious pun about a horrifying Russian street drug that rots away one's flesh and leaves the bones exposed. The song kicks off with a surf rock attitude that gives way to bombardment of blast beats and double bass drums from their skinbasher Will Spectre, who also produced this album (and several of my own) at his Red Water Recording dungeon.
TARTARUS HORDE
"INCANTATIONS OF DISSIDENT TONGUES"
The Horde is cumming!
The first preview of Tartarus Horde's debut album whispers to life with a disembodied sepulchral voice. A sinister spell, perhaps, uttered during a Dungeons and Dragons campaign on magic mushrooms. The atmosphere superbly set the tone, and gives the listener about a minute to breathe before the barrage of guitar wizardry breaks loose. Hold onto your ass, because you're in for a trip. Riffs and all manner of discordant harmonies abound in this promising track from these death metal up and comers.
The real MVP on this song is their bassist, Gabe, who shreds the low-end with the tenacity and funk of Alex Webster tapping the theme from Seinfeld.
Tartarus Horde features a member of Necrosexual's Most Electrifying Band In Corpse Entertainment, Ryan Dred Rot, who in this project has traded in his drum set for rhythm guitar duties. I'm thrilled to see what else the Horde has in store, because "Incantation Of Dissident Tongues" proves these warlocks have the imagination to craft both magical lyrical themes and inventive, otherworldly compositions.
TOMB MOLD - Planetary Clairvoyance
Available July 19 via 20 Buck Spin
Toronto's Tomb Mold wasted no time unleashing the furious follow-up to last year's Manor of Infinite Forms, which catapulted itself to many best of 2018 lists, including this grim author's. Planetary Clairvoyance shows the band's evolution as songwriters, despite the quick turnaround time, while they retain the fearsome brutality that makes them such a force to be reckoned with.
The title track kicks off with a thrashy, punk beat, accompanied by a gutteral "OH" that reminded me of Celtic Frost at hyperspeed. This album will certainly summon a circle of the tyrants in the most pit when they hit the road in the cumming days.
My personal favorite is "Accelerative Phenomenae," an infectiously groovy riff colored in the most flattering shades of Morbid Angel, Nile and Bolt Thrower, that culminates with a nasty guitar leader over it's signature hook for maximum devil horns.
No doubt this album will once again land in many year-end lists for 2019.
COVERED IN SORES - Blown To Bits Demo
Available now via the newly minted Savage Mutilation tape label
Philadelphia's Covered in Sores is a napalm-smothered super group featuring key players from Heavy Temple, Narcos Family Band and Hivelords. They blitzed the metal world with 2018's Militaristic Cannibalism demo tape, a 10-minute barrage of old-school grindcore.
Blown To Bits is an excellent retaliatory strike that will leave you shellshocked, and possibly dripping with blood and excrement. This is filthy death metal delivered, with laser-guided efficiency. Its six songs clock in at around 8 minutes total. It's a musical quickie with a few really rowdy punk rock moments, a hallmark of the special flavor of gritty street metal that characterizes Philadelphia's extreme music scene.
Necrosexual's pick for this record is "Krokodil Tears," a hilarious pun about a horrifying Russian street drug that rots away one's flesh and leaves the bones exposed. The song kicks off with a surf rock attitude that gives way to bombardment of blast beats and double bass drums from their skinbasher Will Spectre, who also produced this album (and several of my own) at his Red Water Recording dungeon.
TARTARUS HORDE
"INCANTATIONS OF DISSIDENT TONGUES"
The Horde is cumming!
The first preview of Tartarus Horde's debut album whispers to life with a disembodied sepulchral voice. A sinister spell, perhaps, uttered during a Dungeons and Dragons campaign on magic mushrooms. The atmosphere superbly set the tone, and gives the listener about a minute to breathe before the barrage of guitar wizardry breaks loose. Hold onto your ass, because you're in for a trip. Riffs and all manner of discordant harmonies abound in this promising track from these death metal up and comers.
The real MVP on this song is their bassist, Gabe, who shreds the low-end with the tenacity and funk of Alex Webster tapping the theme from Seinfeld.
Tartarus Horde features a member of Necrosexual's Most Electrifying Band In Corpse Entertainment, Ryan Dred Rot, who in this project has traded in his drum set for rhythm guitar duties. I'm thrilled to see what else the Horde has in store, because "Incantation Of Dissident Tongues" proves these warlocks have the imagination to craft both magical lyrical themes and inventive, otherworldly compositions.
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