Imagine a lone asteroid floating about aimlessly in deep space. Giant, writhing worms dwell beneath its thin crust of rock and dirty ice, and these gargantuan non-arthropods occasionally pop up to the desolate surface to soak in the UV rays emanating from nearby stars. Then, when it’s feeding time, they seek out and cannibalize one another. The resulting cacophony of tortured, inhuman shrieks set against the depressive backdrop of the vast and cold void would be akin to how Vermis—the Relapse debut and fourth full-length album from New Zealander experimental death metallers Ulcerate—sounds like. Continue reading
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Exhumed – Necrocracy
Californian death metal quartet Exhumed have risen from their slumber to deliver yet another round of meat-grinding and bone-crushing metal. As their sixth full-length album, Necrocracy does not achieve anything beyond sounding like typical death metal fare. But bear in mind that this is typical death metal fare by Exhumed, and as one might expect, it’s hooky, bruising and melodic. Continue reading