The ritual complete, the circle sealed, Richard Benton steps back from his grand working, the fifty most repellent shades conjured within the last year now bound harmlessly to ink and paper. But wait! A shifting of movement in the periphery catches his eye, as fresh horrors pull themselves from the shadows and chitter seductively.
A rapidly growing name in the death metal underground, Italian label Everlasting Spew focus on old school, brutal, dissonant and doom death – placing them so firmly within Richard Benton’s circle of interest that he wonders if they escaped from his head. What shines through their roster and gives them a higher than average hit-rate is their obvious love of and devotion to death metal, with social media posts revealing the label’s owners as excitable fans of the genre themselves. In addition, with Assumption’s long awaited second full length due out this month, he couldn’t resist the temptation to explore some personal favourites from the label’s roster.