BESTIAL PUTREFACTION: Deranged War Metal/Gorenoise Duo Joins Sentient Ruin - "Eternal Flesh Ripping Chaos" Full-Length Compilation LP Available Now.

We're proud to announce our alliance with sociopathic sonic deviants Bestial Putrefaction, as we invoke total armageddon and discharge their first proper LP unto humanity via an exclusive and comprehensive reissue of their entire discography so far. On the foul debut full-length album for Sentient Ruin the Canadian/American gore/war noise butchers reach the zenith of total audial barbarity, hoisting atop a fuming stockpile of severed limbs and rotting flesh the foul banner of total gore and immorality. A remastered compilation featuring their recent self-released "Gore Drenched Barbarism" EP on side A and their previous self-released debut demo tape on side B, the "Eternal Flesh Ripping Chaos" LP (an obvious ode to the legend of early Carcass) condenses all tracks released so far by the band under a new single effigy of total continuous terror, bringing to light the senseless audial savagery that paved the deranged duo's emergence from the nethermost pits of depravity and established them as an authentic living monument to complete chaos and inhumanity.

Synthesized from the most outlandish outer limits of bestial war metal, goregrind and pure noise, the band's barely held together terrorscape stands out as an authentic and barely explainable absurdity, as it launches into senseless exaggerations of audial violence and barbarity borderlining both the shocking and the unexplainable. In its horrid twenty-six track, twenty-eight minute onslaught of total inhumanity and abandon "Eternal Flesh Ripping Chaos" sees Bestial Putrefaction chaotically condense the violence and perversion of diverse extreme entities like Revenge, early Carcass, Chaos Cascade, Archgoat, and Pissgrave with Japanese noise and crasher crust to wage a violent and gruesome war against the purity and dignity of christendom and execute a vile act of ultimate and definitive defilement toward the human race and all its manifestations in every shape and form.

Officially released September 24 2021 on 12” vinyl and cassette tape with an accompanying exclusive limited edition long sleeve shirt, "Eternal Flesh Ripping Chaos" is now available for streaming and purchase on digital and physical formats worldwide via Sentient Ruin exclusively.

Bestial Putrefaction was formed in 2020 by guitarist/vocalist/bassist Infester and drummer Lasher of Christ, two gore freaks whose reveling into the most perverse strains of goregrind dates back many moons, bands and years of commitment, in various shapes and forms, to the most tabu and depraved aural crafts out there. But it's with the formation of Bestial Putrefaction that the duo's interest in the most obscene and the violent forms sonic extremism took a harrowing turn, largely due to the band's parallel and unending worship of the bestial ways of Black Metal. Thus, the two came up with with the sickening idea to try and experiment with combining the two styles and in January 2021 Bestial Putrefaction was ignited, a storm of audial napalm aimed at defiling humanity and the dignity of christendom. The two audial butchers immediately set out to make short chaotic songs with an unsettling and suffocating atmosphere that would channel both the savagery of goregrind and the ruthless hatred and chaos of bestial war metal.

Combining the likes of Gore Gods like Regurgitate, Carcass and Last Days of Humanity along with the wrecking war-torn sound pioneered by Bestial Gods of War like Blasphemy and Proclamation, the band took this new self-made formula of theirs into reality and created their first self-released demo tape, and, shortly after, issued yet another longer self-released player which became known as the infamous "Gore Drenched Barbarism" EP. The appalling level of violence and ignorance displayed in the recordings, along with the subtle experimentalism and clever creativity that went into the creation of these two unseen aural abominations, immediately caught Sentient Ruin's attention, and the duo agreed to join the label in issuing the two EPs under a single banner of complete sonic ruin and barbarity, as the comprehensive "Eternal Flesh Ripping Chaos" LP compilation was envisioned for release on LP, tape and digitally, with brand new artwork sourced by the talented Infester for the purpose and all tracks from both the original releases remastered and repackaged into the ultimate aural artifact of complete fucking bestial gore madness and depravity.

ZAQQOEM: Dutch Abhorrent Black/Death Metal Legion Joins Sentient Ruin for "Anarchic Rapture of Withering" EP Tape Release - Full Stream and Pre-order Available.

We’re proud to welcome Dutch abhorrent black/death metal legion Zaqqoem into our fold as we announce the tape and digital release of their annihilating new EP "Anarchic Rapture of Withering", scheduled for official release on September 17 2021 and available for full stream and pre-order now. Tapes come with a black raw uncoated stock j-card silkscreened with metallic silver ink and features artwork by Portuguese esoteric visual artist Belial Necroarts.

Zaqqoem emerge from the pits of hell with their bludgeoning sophomore EP "Anarchic Rapture of Withering", a harrowing sonic scourge evoking realms of darkness and terror of truly unprecedented traits. Spawned from a wretched dimension of total ruin and oblivion, the three-song, eleven-minute terrorscape combines the diabolical fury of blackened death metal legions like Lucifyre and Pseudgod with the abstract surrealism and erraticism of more experimental extreme metal anomalies like Portal to literally devour and crush the listener inside an inescapable auditory nightmare.

The Dutch black/death metal abomination was churned into existence in 2020 when long time collaborators and multi instrumentalists Zezax and Sha finally found the time to fulfill their mutual wish to write and release something together that would be abstract, devastating, and otherworldly. After essentially improvising their debut “Sacraccultus” EP within 24 hours, the duo identified their sound and vision and started to work on another slab of hate, which eventually found its form in the “Anarchic Rapture of Withering” EP, an annihilating maelstrom of evolved and abstract blackened death metal destruction spawned from the outer limits of complete oblivion and insanity. A few of decisive shared influences for the band that helped forge their inhumanly violent sound are Mayhem, Abruptum, Disgorge (US) and the unrivaled Decide album“Legion” . Further influences are mainly historical and/or religious, also evoking nightmares and visions in the lyrics and concept which make for a truly unsettling and ominous project. "In these times where humanity proves that intelligence has plateaud a long time ago, there is more reason for us to just spew instead of contemplate. Now that we know what it's like working on new music together, time will be taken to complete a full work of utter devastation, slated for a later release."

"Anarchic Rapture of Withering", scheduled for official release on September 17 2021 on cassette and digital formats is and available for full stream and pre-order now via our Bandcamp and webshop.

ABSTRACTER: American Apocalyptic Black/Doom Metal Harbingers Announce New Album "Abominion" - Track Premiered at No Clean Singing and Metalitalia.com.

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We’re proud to renew our long running partnership with American apocalyptic Black/Doom metal harbingers Abstracter as we prepare the release of their fourth full-length LP "Abominion", the band’s most accomplished, intimidating and imposing album to date, scheduled for release in early October via Sentient Ruin worldwide.

To coincide with the release of pre-orders, “Eclipse Born”, the first and opening track from the album has been unveiled by No Clean Singing for America and Metalitalia for Europe, with NCS appropriately explaining that “Within this vortex of pummeling percussion and gale-strength abrasion, shimmering and glittering tones pierce through in fiery frenzies, the music ascends in a display of towering and hideous magnificence, and stomps like a leviathan through a field of skulls once more. What an apocalyptic upheaval the song is! To use different metaphors, it’s like tectonic plates crushing together beneath the earth’s surface while the stars fall, wailing. And when the music begins to race, it’s simultaneously electrifying and harrowing, a scouring and screaming sandstorm gale that strips flesh from bone, with rhythms that ruinously smash boulders to rubble, to the accompaniment of truly terrorizing vocals.”. You can check out both features HERE and HERE.

The Oakland CA-based apocalyptic black doom harbingers re-emerge with their inhumanly crushing fourth full-length album “Abominion”, a ghastly forty-minute hellscape of lightless crush-depth deep inside the darkest abysses of the apocalypse. Extreme and devastating in every sense possible, the soul-crushing album sees the enigmatic American band elevate their long lasting apocalyptic concept to its scariest and most overwhelming extremes yet, coercing the harshest strains of black and doom metal with ravaging scarifications of noise and droning dark ambient into a bleak and suffocating sonic cataclysm of complete darkness and annihilation. In its imposing and terrifying forty minutes “Abominion” obliterates all sense of hope in the listener and casts a harrowing vision into a dark future of total doom and torment where the last human life forms scavenge a devastated radioactive twilight buried in ash and ruins as dark forces of mysterious origin surround them and crush them under the inescapable heel of armageddon. Distilled from pure pessimism and misanthropy, the album’s daunting concept establishes mankind as a parasitic scourge or delusional rogue pestilence or antichrist-like figure and is told in the form of memories, precognitions, reckonings and regret within the human race as concepts like environmental collapse, war, militarism, religious fanaticism, pollution, deviated industrialism, fatalism, greed, avarice, evil, and delusions of glory are littered throughout the artwork and lyrics to help the listener grapple with the complete ruin and darkness they are immersed in through the music. 

Known for forging their imposing and ominous sound across a massive spectrum of influences that include apocalyptic and eschatological literature and fiction, Abstracter’s otherworldly and monstrous strain of apocalyptic blackened doom contains influences coming from unforgettable dark metal and punk bands like Celtic Frost and Tryptykon, Godflesh, Khanate, Corrupted, Leviathan, Swans, Sunn O))), Amebix, Blut Aus Nord, The Ruins of Beverast, Portal, Dystopia, and Disembowelment as well as from certain underground scholars of dark ambient and industrial noise that the band have meticulously distilled and reworked into their sound over the last decade to forge a completely unheard of and unclassifiable colossal aural weapon of mass extinction.

Recorded and mixed once again by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios here in Oakland and mastered by Adam Tucker at Signaturetone in Minnesota, "Abominion" also introduces new members Justin Ennis behind the drum kit (Vale, Ulthar, ex-Mutilation Rites, ex-Tombs), and G. on bass (ex-Mefitic) and is by all means the most curated Sentient Ruin release ever conceived. Envisioned with the band in close partnership and collaboration the album features artwork entirely conceived by the band’s singer and visual artist MA, along with contributions by gore collage artist Adam Medford and occult Venezuelan art studio BMS Illustration.

The massive record is scheduled for an October 1 2021 release date and will be available in a high end packaging for all formats with unseen levels of curation and detail, including black, glow in the dark and marbled 180gr vinyl, printed inner sleeves and gatefold jacket for all vinyl versions and the CD edition, A2 poster and slipcase for the limited vinyl editions, silkscreened slipcase for the tape edition, OBI and download card to lossless audio and PDF inlay and lyric sheet for all formats. A Japanese CD release will be also available soon from Obliteration Records, while exclusive merch including hoodies, shirts, pins and patches will be available from the band.

CRYPTAE: Dutch Experimental Raw Death Metal Deliriants Announce "Decrepit Collection" Vinyl Retrospective - Full Stream and Pre-Orders Available.

We are excited to work again with Cryptae, one of contemporary death metal’s most enigmatic and defiant entities who we’ve worked with ever since their first demo tape, as we ready the release of their new LP “Decrepit Collection", a retrospective vinyl compilation scheduled for release on vinyl and digital formats on September 3 2021 and pre-ordreable and streamable in full now via our Bandcamp and website shop.

"Decrepit Collection" is a glorious 12" vinyl compilation containing Cryptae’s unparalleled 2017 self titled debut demo tape on side A (for the first time ever on vinyl), and 2019's 20 minute single-track EP "Vestigal" on side B, both remastered to their their most sonically crushing form yet. This surreal artifact of complete sonic delirium revisits Cryptae's birth as an authentic error of creation and documents the early development of their hallucinatory and completely unprecedented sound as they threw derailing raw punk, spastic primitive death metal, rogue strains of underdeveloped noise and industrial and free-form improvisation into a deformed and glitched out experiment of aberrant abstract brutality.

TRACKLIST:

1. Glubroneus (05:30)
2. Ventrum (04:17)
3. Cryptae (01:47)
4. Maze (02:39)
5. Vestigial (18:49)

Cryptae made heads turn in 2017 with their insane self-titled debut demo tape, an hallucinogenic and erratic spasm of experimental raw death metal rooted in improvisation and free-form composition that instantly established them as an unpredictable and visionary anomaly in death metal. From its sophisticated minimalist and surreal aesthetic to the unclassifiable horrific music, the release instantly made the band standout as a complete absurdity in death metal, and while voluntarily cryptic and unaccessible, the demo tape was soon sold out shortly after release. The band then followed up in 2019 with “Vestigial” (released on vinyl in collaboration with Tartarus Records), a single track, twenty-minute delirium of experimental death metal improvisation that confirmed the band as a total untethered rogue entity within death metal. Debut full length LP “Nightmare Traversal" followed in 2020 to critical acclaim as the culmination of the band’s visionary experimentalism coupled with their isolationist confidence, talent and perseverance in wanting to create unheard death metal absurdities that lay on a plane of existence entirely their own. "Decrepit Collection" aims at revisiting the beginnings of the band’s creative output to re-trace and rediscover their incredible trajectory as one of the most visionary and defiant experiments in contemporary death metal.

EDENIC PAST: American Technical/Brutal Death Metal Band Feat. Members of Krallice Issue Bludgeoning Debut LP "Red Amarcord" On Vinyl Via Sentient Ruin - Pre-Orders and Full Stream Available.

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We’re proud to announce that American technical brutal death metal absurdity Edenic Past join Sentient Ruin for a vinyl release of their synapse-twisting first ever LP “Red Amarcord”, to be released August 6 2021 on vinyl and digital/streaming formats worldwide. Limited colored and standard black vinyl editions are already available for pre-order, while a CD version and a tape version were already issued previously by P2 and Lifeless Chasm Records respectively.

Formed by Colin Marston and Nicholas McMaster of Krallice fame along with vocalist Paulo Paguntalan of Encenathrakh, on the surreal debut offering Edenic Past unfold an absurd and ultra-brutal hallucination of futuristic aural atavism that touches lows of knuckle-dragging sonic primitivism and brutality and peaks of masterful ambient avantgarde deconstructionism that will be both too much to handle or understand for the average “slam” knuckle brains, and too fucking brutal and ignorant for the average elitist prog nerd. Perhaps standing as the most imaginative and visionary “slamming” technical brutal death metal releases ever conceived, with “Red Amarcord” Edenic Past redefine the outer limits of brutal death metal and set an unprecedented foot in the future for the genre.

Edenic Past from New York City was conceived as an avantgarde technical brutal death metal experiment by members of Krallice during the self-imposed isolation that resulted from the 2020 worldwide COVID pandemic. It is somewhat of a puzzling and thought-provoking thing to reflect on how such an unforeseen and global medical and scientific crisis could lead to such abnormal home experiments by talented and secluded citizens with far too much free time and imagination on their hands… Yet that is where the origin of Edenic Past can be traced back to. As notorious deconstructors / reconstructors of essential musical compounds to create hyper-complex things from mere fragments, Krallice’s Colin Marston and Nicholas McMaster chose the improbable gutter-dwelling subgenre of brutal death metal ("slamming" or not) as their chosen victim for their secluded abhorrent quarantine experiment, to create a turn of events in the genre that remains one of the most astonishing and peculiar things to happen to music in 2020. Despite brutal death metal being one of extreme metal’s most outrageous and often derided styles, it didn’t take long for the notorious and skillful imagination of the musicians involved and for their out of the ordinary technical proficiency to turn the genre literally inside out, eviscerating it into something far more visionary and unpredictable than any of us could have ever imagined. The ensuing uncontrollable mutation that ravaged the essentials of the style would subvert and deconstruct it completely, reinventing and reverse-engineering completely to reanimate it as a highly advanced strain of ultra-brutal futuristic experimental technical death metal unlike anything any of us had ever heard before. Longtime vocalist and friend Paulo Paguntalan of fellow brutal sci-fi bludgeoners Encenathrakh was called in to lend vocal duties while the concept of a political and highly evolved brutal death metal project began to take shape with composition leaning ever so increasingly on the side of dark and surreal atmospheres and themes shifting to dark contemporary history, political and social tragedy, corruption, injustice, and persecution (and often death) of those who seek truth in the murky depths of bureaucratic and political power, particularly of investigative journalists, whistleblowers and political dissidents. Their debut album "Red Amarcord" took final form as a brutal and uncompromising experimental brutal death metal album packed with all the irreplaceable staples of the genre including the neanderthalian breakdowns and outrageous “vocals”, the demented song structures, and the knuckle-dragging brutality that fans have always adored about this genre and its most iconic exponents like Devourment, Wormed, Defeated Sanity, and Visceral Disgorge, but immersed into a futuristic and hallucinogenic architecture of dark lysergic atmospheres, cryptic experimentalism and surreal and oneiric soundscaping. Taking its name from the praised masterpiece from Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini, "Red Amarcord" is a highly evolved statement of arrogant and lethal experimentalism within technical brutal death metal that aims at celebrating and remembering the blood-soaked lives of all those brave souls we lost in their fearless quest for truth against injustice and oppression, by deconstructing technical avantgarde experimental music to bend it to the will of feral and mindless brutality, while conversely elevating this primeval brutality to shed its skin and serve a new purpose as enhancer in a new breed of evolved and re-(de)constructed avantgarde extreme music.

8 HOUR ANIMAL: American Harsh Post-Industrial Ruiner Unveils Bludgeoning New Album "Resigner" - Track Premiered at No Echo.

We’re excited to announce our allegiance with American one-man harsh/post-industrial deconstructor 8 HOUR ANIMAL, as we prepare the release of the act’s bludgeoning new full-length LP “Resigner”, slated for release on LP/MC/digital formats on August 6 2021 worldwide via Sentient Ruin and now pre-orderable on our webshop and Bandcamp.

To coincide with the album’s announcement, respected underground punk/alternative/experimental publication NO ECHO.net has revealed the opening track “Almost Free” calling the track “nightmare fuel”, with marked “Wax Trax meets Earache Records-like vibes”. They further elaborated that “the sound of 8 Hour Animal is a jarring one. A one-man operation whose stylistic approach invites everything from industrial to black metal to power electronics to, well, a host of other harsh points between.”. You can read their feature and check out the track HERE.

The sound of dissolving reality, shattered nerves and unraveling hope, "Resigner" is a nerve-wrecking full length offering of vitriolic post-industrial annihilation that both celebrates and re-imagines the imperious deconstructionism and experimentalism of glorious acts like Controlled Bleeding, :Wumpscut:, Wolf Eyes, Godflesh, Skinny Puppy, Skullflower, Ministry, Incapacitants, Coil and beyond. Through a masterful transfiguration of disorienting atmospherics, oppressive soundscaping and raw intensity, on "Resigner" 8 Hour Animal blurs beat-driven electronic industrial, scorching power electronics, raw punk and black metal, blackened metallic drone, dark ambient, and pure noise into an hallucinogenic and caustic forty-plus minute mechanized nightmare of pure post-industrial chaos and oblivion.

8 Hour Animal is the sound unravelling life and collapsing dreams, of fear and loss of self as flesh is dragged across broken glass. The enigmatic and mysterious one-man blackened harsh industrial entity emerged from the East coast in 2020 via a string of extremely limited home-dubbed tapes focused on abstract pummeling harsh noise wall and power electronics, but brand new sophomore album "Resigner" brings new focus and definition to the project, adding a whole new arsenal of tangible and iconic horrors to its hideous framework, as elements of classic industrial and metal make their way into band's sound taking it to a new realm of urgency and destructiveness. Written in complete loneliness and isolation "Resigner" fuses heavy grinding guitars with industrial percussion, caustic atmospherics, and walls of hateful hissing noise to paint a daunting modern design to complete self-annihilation. The lyrics dealing in self harm, despair, fear and deep self-hatred further define the self-projected sonic downfall that aims at representing the end of self, the quitting of life, the erasure of future, and the complete suppression of hope and happiness. "Resigner" is a harsh industrial weapon for complete self-eradication.

DISIMPERIUM: Portland, Oregon-Based Black/Death/Grindcore Terror Commando Unveil Pulverizing Debut EP "Malefic Obliteration" - Track Premiered at Decibel Magazine.

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We’re proud and excited to seal an unholy pact with Portland OR black/death metal/grind terror commando Disimperium, as we prepare the release of their upcoming pulverizing debut EP “Malefic Obliteration”.

Featuring members of Misrule and Ascended Dead, on "Malefic Obliteration" Dismperium discharge a blinding assault of feral and merciless sonic devastation that will leave the listener crushed and disintegrated in its path. With an impenetrably dark and ultra-violent sound reminiscent of blackened death and grind war mongers like Knelt Rote, Diocletian and Heresiarch, Dismperium tap into a mysterious realm of terror to harness the quintessence of chaos and negativity, condensing years of influences and concepts into a twelve-minute terrorscape of absolute sonic tyranny.

To coincide with the EP’s announcement, the work’s self-titled opening track has been unveiled by legendary metal magazine Decibel Magazine, who in commenting the the song’s inhuman brutality have remarked that “Disimperium are a whirlwind of blackened death metal with a shot of grinding aggression, nearly pushing the sound over the sonic line into war metal territory.” and that “The EP’s title track is a perfect example of what to expect from Malefic Obliteration, taking the aforementioned sound and adding a layer of noise; the only time the listener is given a respite from the explosion of distorted riffs and blast beats is when a layer of fuzzy noise briefly takes over the song.” - you can listen to the track and check out the full feature HERE.

Track list:

1. Malefic Obliteration
2. Fuming Nexus
3. Infernal Machine

Disimperium have been in some way linked to Sentient Ruin even far before their existence. The band’s origins can be traced back to the grindcore solo project Misrule, by East Coast native and now Oregon-based multi-instrumentalist and visual artist S. Mahoney. Misrule emerged in 2018 with its debut demo tape “Forced to Suffer”, issued by Sentient Ruin to positive reviews in the wake of its ferocious and unrelenting aural attack. The success of “Forced to Suffer” lead Mahoney to seek out live members to expand the project’s scope of action beyond his home studio. This lead to a string of local musicians to be briefly involved until members of Ascended Dead and of other local extreme metal bands came in contact with the project, and the union pushed the premises into a darker and even more violent territory which prompted everyone involved to start fresh with a new name and project that would take on a life and sound of its own. The original grindcore influences coming from Knelt Rote and Vermin Womb were thus completed and enhanced by other elements inspired by black and death metal bands like Adversarial, Archgoat, and Impetuous Ritual, which lead the forging of Disimperium’s dark and inhuman aural weapon of total mass extermination.

“Malefic Obliteration” will be officially released on July 23 2021 via Sentient Ruin Worldwide on LP/MC and digital formats, accompanied by a limited edition long sleeve shirt, and all products are now pre-orderable on our webshop and Bandcamp profile.

VESSEL OF INIQUITY: UK Industrial Noise/Black-Grind Deconstructor Announces Devastating New Album "The Doorway" - Track Premiered at No Clean Singing.

We’re excited to renew our long lasting collaboration with UK-based multi-instrumentalist and solo artist A. White and announce the release of "The Doorway", a new full-length LP from his mechanized aural weapon Vessel of Iniquity. Comprising of nine blistering new cuts of total auditory annihilation and featuring staggering artwork by PBV of 夢遊病者 (Sleepwalker), "The Doorway" sees Vessel of Iniquity reach its critical mass and assume what may possibly be its most lethal, majestic, and abominable form yet. The visionary work is slated for an August 6 2021 release on LP, MC and digital formats via Sentient Ruin worldwide, all of which are now pre-ordeable on our Bandcamp and webshop, and from the band or CARGO Records in the EU.

On this new horrific experiment of overwhelming sensorial annihilation, sole mastermind A. White invokes absolute armageddon, funneling a blinding scourge of swirling atmospheric harsh industrial and lacerating abstract black metal into forty-five minutes of pure concentrated chaos. With an immanent and horrifying sense of dissolution and of total loss of control, "The Doorway" sees Vessel of Iniquity discharge a pulverizing swarm of machine gun-like drum machines, suffocating ambient dirges, ravaging harsh electronics and a maelstrom of crushing fretwork obliteration to pound complete oblivion into the listener.

To coincide with the release’s announcement, extreme metal blog NO CLEAN SINGING has unveiled the track “Dying” stating that the track is “the sound of bodies being ripped apart under the impact of an absolutely ruthless mechanized assault, a shock-and-awe campaign unmarred by nuance and unadulterated by mercy” and explaining that “A. White, has been exercising his creative impulses in various extreme and experimental ways for nearly two decades and ‘The Doorway’ will leave behind him perhaps the biggest smoking crater of underground destruction yet." You can read the full review and check out the track HERE.

British multi-instrumentalist, soundscaper, and audial deconstructor A.White has been hammering away at some of the underground’s most puzzling, obscure, and terrifying artifacts for the better part of the last two decades. Continuing the trend of never adhering to any scene or benefitting from any kind of mainstream underground exposure, through its 2017 defining self-tiled debut album, the followup LP “Void of Infinite Horror” and a string of more experimental EPs and digital releases, Vessel of Iniquity has taken the sincretisms of black metal, grindcore, and industrial noise to its most remote outer limits, establishing itself as a puzzling and unseen beacon of extremism unlike anything else existing in the underground.