DEATHWINDS
Deathwinds was formed by Bestial Desolator on drums (Encoffinate, Radioactive Vomit, Temple of Abandonment), Nocturnal Black on guitars and vocals (Ceremonial Bloodbath, Nightfucker, Radioactive Vomit), and Filth Destroyer on bass (Encoffinate, Radioactive Vomit) in Vancouver, Canada around 2013, spawned from the city’s sprawling and legendary punk and black/death metal scene; the same one that vomited out bands like Necroholocaust, Blasphemy, Death Worship, Antichrist, and Mass Grave, among many others. Their debut “Endless Wastelands” demo tape appeared in 2014 via Vault of Dried Bones, showcasing the band’s unique fusion of primitive bestial black metal and punk, with select live assaults unleashing chaos in their home town and establishing them as a lethal and pestilent force, before the band went dormant for almost ten years as members focused on other projects like Ceremonial Bloodbath, Nightfucker and Encoffinate. Deathwinds then re-emered out of nowhere in 2023, just as unexpectedly as they had vanished a decade prior, with the “Ripping Annihilation” sophomore demo tape, released that year by Headsplit Records. This release revealed the band being joined on bass by Nuclear Hammer Throne (Ahna, Ceremonial Bloodbath, Encoffinate, Grave Infestation, Temple of Abandonment, The Nausea) replacing original bassist Filth Destroyer, and embodied as an even more primitive and extreme entity than before, with influences by Black Witchery and Hellhammer ever so prominent and accentuating the band’s feral primitivism. With a fully defined sound entirely their own and a new lineup assembled to trample crowds to death, Deathwinds thus returned evolved into its most abhorrent shape and revived to its most destructive intents. The inevitable then materiazlied with the band’s crowning abomination, the “…Towards Doom…” debut full-length album, ten years in the making, and packed with almost forty minutes of grinding, blasphemous, bestial extreme metal-punk vomited from the outer realms of the apocalypse, released in mid-2024 again by Headsplit on MC/CD, and shortly after by Sentient Ruin on vinyl and digital formats.