Dragged Into Sunlight - Hatred For Mankind (2009)

Anti-everything in their own words, Dragged Into Sunlight play what could be a point where sludge metal, crust punk, and blackened death metal all sound the same. Like a bastard child of Hellhammer, Asphyx, Leviathan, His Hero Is Gone, and Noothgrush; they forge sheer sonic atrocities -- songs imploding enough to tear down the speakers if necessary. Their only full-length, released in 2009 -- "Hatred For Mankind" --  is a collection of six unholy psalms, running over fifty minutes. It's a record just as desperate and desolate as Sadistic Intent, early Rwake, and Carnivore; with samples implanted in between the tracks, and an overall lo-fi mix. Though ruthless as they might be, the DIS also subsume to their sound, soundscapes; what their colleges in Bongripper also incorporate, but with the immutable, fiendish vocals on top, they rarely stop beating the shit out of the listener. Not many bands go where DIS are headed to, and so they're in league of their own. A league from Hell itself, that is.

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Fister/The Lion's Daughter - And Their Masters Bled For Days (2011)

"And Their Masters Bled For Days" is the name of the split two underground bands, Fister and the Lion's Daughter, released earlier this month. Each band's music compliments the other's superbly, and it has been perfected with a brilliant artwork. Production wise, the album sounds like an absolute monster -- the drums sound dirty as fuck, kind of Crowbar-like, huge beats. The guitars melt and blister, and if you listen to that at maximum volume, it's going to bury the whole fucking place in just a few minutes. The level of instrumentation heard on 'Witchfucker' is nearly insane, reminiscing the Eagle Twin grand, 'And It Came To Pass That Birds Fell To Earth As Black Snakes'. This is -- one hell of a mini-release and one hell of a split, on par with all the greats from the past; e.g. "Meatjack & Damad", "Earth & KK Null", "Plutocracy & Phobia", "Hate Forest & Legion Of Doom", "Acid King / Altamont".

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