[2024-02-01] DISTRO UPDATE!!! This is the list of new items and restocks that arrived at the store over the course of the last month: (*) can´t be included in our deals/promotions (5x4, 10x8, 15x12, etc...) (*) ADVERSAION - Dejection of the Malign Tabernacle CD BODY HARVEST - Parasitic Slavery CD CARCINOID - Encomium of Extinction CD CARNAL DISSECTION - Complete Discography CD CEMETERY DWELL - Towards a Dreadful Cosmos CD CRUEL FATE - Destin Cruel CD DECRYPTAL - Sabazios Culte MCD DIPYGUS - Wet Market CD DIPYGUS - Dipygus CD DISGORGED - Complete Discography CD EXECRATION - Syndicate of Lethargy CD FUMES - Assemblage of Disgust CD FUMES / THORN - Split MCD GOSUDAR - Morbid Despotic Ritual CD GOSUDAR / MALIGNANT ALTAR - Split CD GUT RIPPER - Necrowork CD GUTS - Decay CD GUTTED ALIVE - Killing Desire CD GUTTED ALIVE - Human Taxidermy CD HORRIFIER - Horrid Resurrection CD KHASMATA - Eerie Dismal Gateways CD KRYPTOXIK MORTALITY - Interdimensional Calamitous Extirpation CD LACERATION - Demise CD MALFORMED - Uncontrollable Malformity MCD MASS INFECTION - The Age of Recreation CD MASS INFECTION - For I Am Genocide CD MASS INFECTION - Shadows Became Flesh CD MEPHITIC GRAVE - Dreadful Seizures CD NECROTICGOREBEAST - Repugnant CD NECROTUM - Defleshed Exhumation CD NIGHT HAG / CRYPTIC BROOD - Swollen with Rancid Phlegm CD NOXIS / CAVERN WOMB - Communion of Corrupted Minds CD OBSIDIAN HOOVES – Illuminating Void CD ONE DAY IN PAIN - Imperial Fires CD ONE DAY IN PAIN - Doomsday Congregation CD ONE DAY IN PAIN - In Pain We Trust CD OSSUARY - Stellar Annihilation CD PESTIGORE - Rotten Bowel of Pestigore CD (*) PHANTOM CRAWL - Grotesque Spellbound Phantom CD PHERETRUM - Inwards Lunacy/No Human Heritage CD (*) PUKEWRAITH - Banquet of Scum CD PUSTILENCE - The Birth of the Beginning Before the Inception of the End MCD RANCID CADAVER - Flesh Monstrosity MCD SADISTIC EMBODIMENT - Blood Spell CD SAPREMIA - Subconscious Existence CD (*) SPASME - Deep Inside / Traumatisme CD THE PIT - Of Madness and Evil Whispers CD (digipak) TORTURED - Genetically Engineered Monstrosity CD VRENTH - Baptism Death CD VRENTH - Succumb to Chaos CD VRENTH / DEPRAVER - Split MCD WHORE OF BETHLEHEM - Ritual of Homicide CD BORGARTING - Beist CD (digipak) CHAOSMANCER - Procreation of the Unholy CD ENISUM - Samoht Nara CD ENISUM - Arpitanian Lands CD FLUKT - Omen ov Darkness CD GRIEFSPELL - Enchantments of Dark Eternity CD HANDFUL OF HATE - Qliphothic Supremacy CD (digipak) HANDFUL OF HATE - Hierarchy 1999 CD (digipak) PERISHED - Seid CD PERVERTICON - Extinguishing The Flame of Life CD STORMLORD - Supreme Art of War CD (digipak) UBUREN - Usurp the Throne CD ZUSTAND NULL - Beyond the Limit of Sanity CD (digipak) PARADOX - Product of Imagination CD PARADOX - Heresy CD BLACKFLOW - Seeds of Downfall CD EGO DEPTHS - Dýrtangle CD (digipak) EGO DEPTHS - Elläkkairavertta CD (digipak) OF DARKNESS - Missa Tridentina CD UNTIL DEATH OVERTAKES ME - AnteMortem CD UNTIL DEATH OVERTAKES ME - Missing CD [2024-01-22] OUT NOW AND SHIPPING!!! DIPYGUS - Dipygus CD [MEMENTO-CXXXIII] The highly anticipated 3rd full-length by this U.S. band. Since the dawn of the Paleolithic age, mankind has recorded spectacular scenes of death, whether in scenes of cannibal feasts crudely etched on cave walls, massacres immortalized in glyphs adorning monuments of the ancient kingdoms, or in chance recordings of grisly accidents, compiled and sold on home video to those with a thirst for that which is denied to them by our "civilized" society. Spawned in the contaminated sewers of Santa Cruz, California in 2013, Dipygus began as a four-piece mutation performing rudimentary styles of Death Metal, a sonic evolution of the tradition continued from the time of Cro-Magnons. A 2015 demo recording, the earliest surviving documentation of the band, reveled in unexplained and bizarre events, including peculiar methods of whale carcass disposal and otherworldly monsters from on and off the silver-screen. After a lineup change in 2016, Dipygus recorded the "Long Pig Feast" EP, which featured terrifying rites, ritual mutilations and ominous sightings of a Mesozoic relic in the heart of the Congo. Their debut album, "Deathooze", slowly de-composed in the murky shallows of powerplant runoff in the Monterey Bay, ultimately being recorded in 2018. Though quickly banned in over 16 countries, Dipygus´ debut album attracted immediate attention among slime fetishists and similarly deviant circles. Placed appropriately alongside the Fiji mermaids and other grotesque artefacts found in curio cabinets of modern-day antiquarians, "Deathooze" continued the band´s exploration of inexplicable incidents, mysterious beasts and shocking carnage, including genuine audio recovered from a fatal attack at the hands of an ape gone mad! Following their debut album, Dipygus was conjoined with an additional member, and began a new exploration in search of secrets hidden in the jungles of lost continents, where life is cheap. After successful initiation into the shadowy world of black-market cuisine, an agreement was reached with Memento Mori for the release of the band´s second full-length, "Bushmeat". Showcasing more exotic and repulsive themes of the supernatural and taboo, "Bushmeat" presented an uncensored and unrelenting spectacle, with each element of the previous work irresponsibly taken to a further extreme. A prime cut of raw and grueling terror, it was fit for consumption by headhunters, body-snatchers, toad-venom junkies, cargo cultists, aquatic ape theorists, disaster tourists, carriers of tropical disease, voodoo practitioners and orgone revivalists only. All others having since been warned, Dipygus return to time primordial with an elegantly self-titled third album. Suitably graced with evocative cover art courtesy of Hayden Hall, Dipygus thrusts the helpless listener into a psychedelic jungle of grisly delights. At 10 songs in 41 minutes, the quartet qualify their most lengthy recording yet with maximum delirium and characteristically crushing execution. Everything here feels massive -tone, feel, supernatural aura- yet somehow simultaneously exhibits a spacious quality that´s unsettling to the Nth degree. Perhaps that´s due to Dipygus´ increasingly twisted songwriting, neither "tech" nor improvisatory, but a certain "elevated caveman" aspect that pushes primitivism toward mind-bending ends. Fleeting-yet-haunting leads also play a part in Dipygus´ menagerie of malodorousness, exacerbating the psychotic reactions in their humid, hellish jungle, and even touches of way-back synths get mangled within, melting into the fuckton heaviness of Dipygus´ riffing. Ever wanna hear the most tripped-out moments of Autopsy, Impetigo and especially Nuclear Death taken to their ILLogicial conclusion? Then enter Dipygus´ self-titled album... if you dare! NECROTUM - Defleshed Exhumation CD [MEMENTO-CXXXIV] The pummeling 3rd full-length by this Romanian band. The rancid entity known as Necrotum was initiated by mainman Filip Garlonta (Putred, Demoted, Vorus) in Brasov, back in 2019. Despite the fact that the band has only been around for four years, Necrotum have already produced an impressive output, including two albums and a number of shorter releases, getting tighter, danker, heavier and more macabre over time, drawing inspiration from the likes of early Cannibal Corpse, Incantation, Wombbath, Broken Hope and Grave among others, with the sole intention of perpetuating ghastly, downtuned, no-frills Death fuckin´ Metal. While it would be expected (and celebrated) if Necrotum stuck to those rancid guns, on their forthcoming third album, "Defleshed Exhumation", do they become slicker and yet more twisted, tighter but also wilder, and ​perhaps more "evolved"... very relatively speaking! Because make no mistake, ​Necrotum are ​staunchly (and sickly!) Death Metal of a most 90´s vintage, but whereas their preceding full-lengths could be slotted within the pantheon of early 90´s Death Metal, "​Defleshed Exhumation" takes a concerted path ​toward mid or even late 90´s Death Metal. Think the likes of Monstrosity, Broken Hope, Mortal Decay, Deeds of Flesh and pre-breakup Suffocation: undeniably fierce and punishing, but technical in ​a creepy and oft-slimy way. Not for nothing is the cover art created by Slimeweaver! Of especial note is the production on "Defleshed Exhumation": this is about as slick and clean as you can get whilst retaining the core darkness and horror ​of classic ​Death Metal. If anything, those superlatively sharp edges only make that darkness and horror hit harder. Stomp in the slime and twist down into its depths with Necrotum! MEPHITIC GRAVE - Dreadful Seizures CD [MEMENTO-CXXXV] The much-anticipated 2nd full-length by this Hungarian band. Formed in 2018 by Zoli (guitars) and Balázs (drums), initially under the monicker Mothrot, it wasn´t after Knot (guitars) and Ádám (bass/vocals) joined the band that they morphed into Mephitic Grave and the Lovecraftian universe of cosmic horror based Death Metal welcomed a new entity. Their shared adoration of the classic Finndeath scene and the mighty ancient U.S. bands settled their musical approach: unrefined, sickening and miasmatic Death Metal that oozes viscous matter and is drenched in derangement. Their debut album, "Into the Atrium of Inhuman Morbidity", put the band on the map of current, underground Death Metal in 2021. Since then, they´ve been working on new aural madness to dive deeper into the harrowing tones from beyond, which is exactly what they accomplished with "Dreadful Seizures", the band´s sophomore full-length effort. Fans of bands such as Abhorrence, Autopsy, Funebre, Grave, Obituary, Purtenance, Cannibal Corpse and Morbid Angel, rejoice: "Dreadful Seizures", graced with the talent of cover artist Mónus Viktor, is here to satisfy your craving for vintage Metal of Death! [2024-01-01] DISTRO UPDATE!!! This is the list of new items and restocks that arrived at the store over the course of the last month: (*) can´t be included in our deals/promotions (5x4, 10x8, 15x12, etc...) ANASARCA - Survival Mode CD ANGELIVORE - Fleshfeast CD CARDIAC ARREST - ...In Rotten Retrospect CD CARDIAC CEASE - Defend or Die! CD COMPULSIVE / CRY OF THE NILE - The Voiceless Death Symphony CD CONSECRATION - Ephemerality CD CORTEGE - Vandari CD (digipak) CYSTIC - Palace of Shadows CD DEATHFUCKER - God Devourer CD DECAYING PURITY - Mass Extinction of the Providential Ones CD DEPRESSION / REPUKED - Leuchtfeuer... / Repuked Tolkar Repuked CD DEPRESSION / NECROCANNIBALISTIC VOMITORIUM - Das Geisterhaus / Anatomical Theater CD DESECRESY - Deserted Realms CD DISPLAY OF DECAY - Vitriol CD DRIPPING DECAY - Festering Grotesqueries CD (slipcase) ENCOFFINIZED - Chambers of Deprivation CD ETERNAL ROT / COFFINS - Split CD EXCREMENT - Flesh & Blood MCD FROZEN SOUL - Glacial Domination CD GARCHAROT - Core of Despair CD GRIEVE - Pit of Despair CD GROTESQUERIE - Composted Beyond Recognition CD HORRID - Reborn in Sin CD IMMORTAL SUFFERING - Extreme Torture MCD INTESTINAL LACERATION - Chaotic Eschatological Madness CD KARPATHIAN RELICT - Never Be After CD (digipak) LEPROPHILIAC / GRAVAVGRAV - Split CD (*) MALEDICTION - The Soil Throne MCD (super jewel) MALIGNANCY - Malignant Future + Bonus Tracks MCD MASS KILLINGS / OPEN FLESH WOUND - Double Homicide MCD MAUL - Gallery of Torment CD MORDLOCH - 2022 MCD OBSCENITY - Retaliation CD ONIRICOUS - Los Cultos del Ghoul CD PERILAXE OCCLUSION / FUMES / CELESTIAL SANCTUARY / THORN - Absolute Convergence MCD PHARMACIST - Carnal Pollution MCD PUTRED - Repulsie Post-Mortem CD PUTRID EVIL - Exhumed​.​.​. From The Unhallowed Ground CD PUTRID PILE - Revel in Lunacy CD SADISTIC HALLUCINATIONS - Chambers of Dissonance CD SEPSISM - Purulent Decomposition CD SEWER FIEND / PLAGUE PATROL - Split CD SHUD - Live Before Death CD SIAX - Inquisition CD SIAX - Progeria / Land of Stones CD SUMMONING DEATH - A Traumatic Night of the Creeps MCD TENEBRO - Ultime Grida dalla Giungla CD TIDELESS - Eye of Water 2CD (digipak) BLEEDING ART - Moja Dusza / In the Eternal Garden of Death CD MERRIMACK - Grey Rigorism CD MERRIMACK - Omegaphilia CD (digipak) ATTACK - Human Souls CD BARBARIAN (Spain) - Cross the Endless North Winter CD BITTERNESS - Memories of a Dying Past CD (digipak) BITTERNESS - Dead World Order CD OMISSION - Worship What You Fear CD RETROFAITH - ...of Madness CD SAVAGE RUINS - World in Wrath CD V/A - Thrashin´ Spain - Demo Compilation 1987-1990 2CD VENUS - Obscured Until Observed CD YORTSED - Time for Anger CD (digipak) ZVRATOR - The Complete Asphyxiation 2CD CULTUS SANGUINE - Shadows´ Blood CD CULTUS SANGUINE - The Sum of All Fears CD THE RIVER - A Hollow Full of Hope CD THE RIVER / THE HUMAN CONDITION - Split CD [2023-12-01] DISTRO UPDATE!!! This is the list of new items and restocks that arrived at the store over the course of the last month: (*) can´t be included in our deals/promotions (5x4, 10x8, 15x12, etc...) ABOMINATED - Traumatic Putrefaction CD (*) ACCIDENTAL SUICIDE - Dead Erotica CD AGE OF AGONY - Death Metal Artillery CD AGE OF AGONY - For the Forgotten CD AGE OF AGONY - Raven Black MCD ALTAR (Sweden) - Dark Domains CD APOCALYPTIC FEAR - Dawn of the Ritual + Decayed Existence CD (*) ASPHYX - Asphyx CD (*) ASPHYX - God Cries CD (*) ASPHYX - Embrace the Death CD (*) ASPHYX - On the Wings of Inferno CD ASTRIFEROUS - The Lower Levels of Sentience MCD ASTRIFEROUS - Pulsations from the Black Orb CD ATROPINE - Sanity Desecration CD AUTOPHAGY - Bacteriophage CD AZATHOTH - Sultan of Chaos MCD (digipak) (*) BLOOD - Christbait CD BLOOD - O Agios Pethane CD (digipak) BODYFARM - Battle Breed CD (digipak) (*) BRUTALITY - The Complete Demo Recordings 1987-1991 2CD (*) BRUTALITY - Demo 2003 + Bonus Tracks CD CORROSIVE - I´m Bleeding CD CRYPTIVORE - Celestial Extinction CD DEAD TWILIGHT - Fall of Humanity CD (digipak) DEATHBED - Obsolete Natural Composition CD DEIQUISITOR - Apotheosis CD DEMONICAL - Death Infernal CD (silver edition) DEMONICAL - Darkness Unbound CD (silver edition) (*) DEMONICAL - World Domination CD (digipak) DOOM FORMATION - Definition of Evil MCD (*) ETERNAL SOLSTICE / MOURNING - At the Dawn of... CD (*) ETERNAL SOLSTICE - Demonic Fertilizer CD EXCRUCIATING PAIN - Thou Shall Choose CD EXTREME MASTURBATION - The Early Demos CD FOSSILIZATION - He Whose Name Was Long Forgotten MCD FOSSILIZATION - Leprous Daylight CD (*) GOMORRAH - Reflections of Inanimate Matter CD HALLUCINATE - From the Bowels of the Earth CD HEADS FOR THE DEAD - In the Absence of Faith MCD HELSLAVE - From the Sulphur Depths CD HUMAN HARVEST - Flesh Sermons CD HUMAN HARVEST - Death Storms CD IMPETIGO - Giallo MCD (digipak) (*) IMPETIGO - Ultimo Mondo Cannibale CD (*) IMPETIGO - Horror of the Zombies CD ILBRED - Ilbred 2CD INANNA - Transfigured in a Thousand Delusions CD INFAMOVS - Stench of the Unholy Graves CD INTENSE AGONIZING - Beginning of the End CD (*) JUMPIN´ JESUS - The Art of Crucifying CD LEVIAL - Possesion of a Divine Soul CD MALFORMED - The Gathering of Souls MCD MORTUOUS - Upon Desolation CD NEUROPATH - At Damnation´s Core CD OCCULSED - Crepitation of Phlegethon CD OCCULSED - Parturition of Adulteration CD ONI - Incantation Superstition CD OVERLORD (Germany) - Fake Salvation CD (digipak) PANDEMIC OUTBREAK - Skulls Beneath the Cross CD PANDEMIC OUTBREAK - Collecting the Trophies MCD PODRIDAO - Cadaveric Impregnation CD (*) POLLUTED INHERITANCE - Ecocide CD (*) POLLUTED INHERITANCE - Betrayed CD PUTRID TORSO (Spain) - Trails of Hypnotized Human Veins CD PUTRID YELL - Consuming Aberration CD RIPPED TO SHREDS - 埋葬 (Mai Zang) CD ROTHADAS - Kopár Hant… Az Alvilág Felé CD SEEP - Hymns to the Gore CD SERAPHIC ENTOMBMENT - Quelled MCD SERAPHIC ENTOMBMENT - Sickness Particles Gleam CD SHODAN - None Shall Prevail CD SHRAPNEL STORM - Mother War CD SHRAPNEL STORM - Silo CD (digipak) (*) SKELETAL EARTH - Eulogy for a Dying Fetus CD (*) SKELETAL EARTH - Dē.ĕv´ṓ.lū´shŭn CD SONIC POISON - Eruption CD THORNAFIRE - Magnaa CD THORNAFIRE - Leprosario Lazareto CD (digipak) THRONE OF FLESH - Dust CD (digipak) (*) TORCHURE - The Demos 2CD (*) TORCHURE - Beyond the Veil CD (*) TORCHURE - The Essence CD UNDEAD - Existential Horror CD WORMVEIL - Overlords of Darkness CD WRATHRONE / SPIRAL WOUNDS / NECRODIUM - Back to 90´​s Old​ School Death Metal CD (digipak) AHRIMAN - The Early Years CD (digipak) BATUSHKA - Carju Niebiesnyj (Dark Gold Edition) CD BRODER - Skarpretterfossilet CD CVINGER - Doctrines by the Figures of Črnobog CD INANES - Acedia CD MARDOM - Longing for a New Dawn MCD MISANTHROPIC WAR - Utter Human Annihilation CD (*) SEAR BLISS - Grand Destiny CD SUFFER IN SILENCE - Obscurity CD VEIN - Blood Oaths CD VOMIT RITUAL - Callous CD VRAG - Harcom CD WASN - Ciemną Doliną CD ZORORMR - The Monolith CD (*) ASSORTED HEAP - The Experience of Horror CD (*) ASSORTED HEAP - Mindwaves CD (*) BLACK SHEPHERD - Immortal Aggression CD DEATHFUCKER - Devil´s Fist MCD DETHEROUS - Hacked to Death CD ETERNAL DEVASTATION - Slaughterhouse CD EVILCULT - The Devil Is Always Looking for Souls CD (*) HELLWITCH - Syzygial Miscreancy CD (*) HELLWITCH - Omnipotent Convocation CD LEGION - Lethal Liberty CD NOCTURNAL - Storming Evil CD NOCTURNAL BREED - Fields of Rot CD PANDEMIC - Crooked Mirror CD (*) PARADOX - Demo 86 - Deluxe Edition CD (*) PARADOX - Mystery Demo 87 - Deluxe Edition CD PARADOX - Product of Imagination CD PARADOX - Heresy CD PENTAGRAM CHILE - The Malefice CD SINDROME - Resurrection: The Complete (Studio) Collection CD (slipcase) TORMENTOR - Anno Domini CD (*) VIGILANT - Dramatic Surge / Oppression CD (*) VIO-LENCE - Kill on Command – The Vio-Lence Demos 2CD CONVOCATION - Ashes Coalesce CD (digipak) CONVOCATION - No Dawn For The Caliginous Night CD (digipak) WITCHER – Néma Gyász CD WITCHER - A Gyertyák Csonkig Égnek CD [2023-10-23] OUT NOW AND SHIPPING!!! DIPYGUS - Deathooze + Bonus CD [MEMENTO-CXXX] Official reissue of the debut full-length, originally released in 2019, by this U.S. band, including their song off the split w/ Cosmic Reef Temple (taken from the same recording session than "Deathooze") as bonus, and a revamped layout by Dayan, the band´s bass player. Sick and utterly repulsive Death Metal with pungent blasts, doom-ish passages and an undercurrent of Punk for fans of Autopsy, Impetigo, Funebre, Asphyx and Nuclear Death, as well as newer acts such as Undergang, Fetid, Cerebral Rot and Vastum. ECOCIDE - Metamorphosis CD [MEMENTO-CXXXI] The long-awaited 2nd full-length by this Dutch band. Ecocide was formed in Haarlem by Sten Govers, Bas Gijzen and Rick Stikkelorum back in 2012, with Dennis Bikker joining in 2014. Their self-titled 2012 demo was basically Thrash Metal with a pinch of Death Metal thrown in for good measure, and lyrical themes based on H.P. Lovecraft, 80´s horror and sci-fi movies. Their 2013 debut album, titled "Eye of Wicked Sight", saw the band shift their initial Thrash Metal sound into old school Death Metal, taking the Floridian brand of Death, Obituary and Massacre, adding some Swedish inspiration in the vein of Entombed, Grave and Unleashed, pouring some Bolt Thrower heaviness, some Pestilence greatness, and throwing in an additional touch of Thrash Metal à la Slayer for a real homage to the golden days of yore, when Death Metal was memorable and riff-oriented to the hilt. The release of the album quickly attracted a bigger, international following, and the band started playing dozens of shows within and around The Netherlands. During these shows, they shared the stage with bands like Malevolent Creation, Sinister, Gorguts and the legendary Bolt Thrower. After two lineup changes, the band called it quits in 2015, returning briefly in 2017 to release a single titled "The Godhand", and then again in 2020 to release another single, titled "Sleeper". After releasing those two songs, the band remained dormant until 2023, when they announced their comeback and started working for the second album. Now, at long last is that comeback already ready, fittingly titled "Metamorphosis". Indeed, it´s been a full decade since their debut album, but Ecocide prove that album #2 could´ve followed swiftly after the first: the band stick to their guns and totally solidify their transformation into old school Death Metal par excellence. While thrash riffs still abound, they´re fully integrated into the whole, supporting an unbelievably era-authentic Tampa style that could´ve come out in 1991. Ecocide´s songwriting has also gotten stronger, shifting speeds with deftness and care, and placing a premium on earth-shuddering breakdowns. There´s always a linear flow to all that they do here on "Metamorphosis", even when the riffing gets busier and the rhythms kick into overdrive; for the latter, the kick drums in particular impart that timeless "tornado" effect that made many a Morrisound recording so classic. Similarly, the production across the album is clear, crunchy and classy, displaying technical finesse whilst keeping just the right amount of grit. And what to say of vocalist/guitarist Govers... Well, an exceptionally classic Death Metal throat, powerful in his enunciation and creeping you the fuck out! Completed by Costin Chioreanu´s horrifically abstract cover art, Ecocide make a grand return with "Metamorphosis". Let´s hope it´s not another decade for album #3! MARTYRDOOM - As Torment Prevails CD [MEMENTO-CXXXII] The highly anticipated 2nd full-length by this Polish band. Conceived in Warsaw back in 2010, Martyrdoom went through some lineup changes until they established a solid formation in 2014, consisting of Sociak (vocals), Marol (guitar), Młynar (guitar / vocals), Artur (bass) and Wasyl (drums). With this lineup, in 2017 they released their debut album, "Grievous Psychosis", through yours truly´s label. Blending complex, blastbeat-driven, darkened Death Metal with slow doom passages, the band drew their main influences from the likes of Obituary, Immolation, Rippikoulu, Autopsy, Demilich, Triptykon, Cannibal Corpse, Incantation, Hooded Menace, Grave, Disma and Dead Congregation, but they spewed all those influences out with renewed vigor. As far as non-musical inspirations go, their lyrics mostly revolved around old-school horror/gore movies, personal struggles and the works of H.P. Lovecraft. Bloodthirsty and dripping with menace, Martyrdoom are still armed with a thorough knowledge of ancient Death Metal and they return to create something vile and unearthly with "As Torment Prevails". Though six years might´ve passed between full-lengths, these Poles pick up exactly where they left off: eschewing all trends, trudging defiantly and blasting their noxious blend of Death Metal and doomy vibes. If anything, "As Torment Prevails" dives deeper into the ancient past, sounding like a lost relic from 1992, including the striking cover art courtesy of Ryszard Wojtyński. And while Doom no doubt forms a foundation for their sound, never do Martyrdoom sound sluggish here: their guitar sound alone is gutted, and the Doom is definitely all in the feeling, for there´s plenty of off-the-charts energy here no matter what the tempo is. Those especially enamored with the 90´s works of Asphyx and Benediction will find tons to love in "As Torment Prevails", as well as the early (and equally essential) records of Sinister and Hypocrisy. Concluding with a cover of Autopsy´s "In the Grip of Winter", Martyrdoom don´t so much as turn back the clock as crush it! << Prev Next >>