Harassor - Harassor

Cover artwork by Martin De Pedro

Harassor's self-titled full length is a mix of raw hardcore punk and harsh black metal. The production is lo-fi with clanky percussion and distorted vocals. It is very primal sounding music, about as far away from a glossy studio production as you can get. Here are reviews from Cvlt Nation and Deaf Sparrow Zine, who also did an interview with the band.

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Plague Widow - Plague Widow EP

Plague Widow has just released their debut EP on Bandcamp. This is brutal death grind with flashes of technicality and the occasional sense of bombast, epic grind you could call it. Guttural low vocals alternates with black metal screeches, and the drumming is fast and aggressive, powerful and pulverizing, as this review from American Aftermath has it. Here's another review from The Metal Archives.

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Disembowelment - Disembowelment

Doomsday comes to an end with Relapse Records 2005 release of the entire Disembowelment discography. It contains the Dusk EP from 1992, Disembowelment's only full-length Transcendence into the Peripheral from 1993 and a number of rarities and demo tracks.

Considered one of the albums that helped spawn the funeral doom genre, Transcendence into the Peripheral is one part brutal, blast beat ridden death metal and one part down-tuned, dirge like doom. Dissonant distorted rhythms, maddening tempo shifts and the deepest possible death growls.

Here are reviews of Transcendence into the Peripheral from Sputnikmusic and Metal Archives. And a review of the compilation, also from Metal Archives. Half of Disembowelment have reformed as Inverloch. In this interview, conducted by Dane Prokofiev for Metal Injection, they discuss the legacy of these classic recordings.

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