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Garroted is a death metal band from Walpole, MA, that's been on my radar ever since I saw them  absolutely crush another wise forgettable music festival back in 2017. Their unrelenting style of death metal wrought with frenzied riffs and blistering drums immediately grabbed my attention, and was the highlight of the entire day. (Honorable mention to Reckless Force , an entertaining speed metal band that also played on this fateful day back in 2017.) Garroted have resurfaced with with a new release full of older material.  The Mystic Valley Tapes  boasts of analog recording, meant to capture the savagery of Garrotted as a live unit. This four-song EP sounds like it could have come from  the early nineties, during the height of death metal mania.  Above all, The Mystic Valley Tapes reminded me of Covenant -era Morbid Angel, with more unorthodox song structures. Intricate guitar work is executed here with tight, palm-muted power chords. The drumming rumbles...

Hell-O my Necrosexuals of the world. My sincere apologies for the delay in hard-hitting journalism. Your patience will be rewarded with much more regularly scheduled programming. I have a totally grim pipeline of interviews and reviews to share with you all. First off, Soulgrinder. This band sounds like the creepy music one would hear in a sorcerer's lair. 2018's album Prophecy Of Blight  contains thoroughly evil riffs, with a classic heavy metal atmosphere and thrashy precision. Their vocalist, Prilzor, spews the lyrics with demonic delivery. Her voice arrangements are part sung, part shrieked, and also a bit guttural. Either way, her vocal harmonies carry the music on Prophecy Of Blight in a big way . These songs will definitely worm their way into your psyche. Aside from being a horrifying vocalist and bass player, Prilzor is also a killer artist . She has designed everything from her own clothes, to album covers for bands like Bewitcher.  Below is an unearthed email in...