BLACK FUCKING CANCER
In the band’s own words, “Black Fucking Cancer's sole purpose is to manifest uncompromising, disease ridden, unforgiving aural hell. To relentlessly shove everyone's face into their own shit.” As their name aptly suggests San Jose CA’s Black Fucking Cancer are plague adorators whose wretched aural craft is conceived solely as a vessel for defilement, insult, and ridicule of the human race, particularly of that segment of humanity who follow morality and are cowardly enough to chose to believe the lies of organized religion. A long running and revered act in the Bay Area extreme meta underground, Black Fucking Cancer have always eschewed the trends of their times, and while during their beginnings everyone in their scene and epoch was busy delving into atmospheric and “cascadian” styles of meditative hybridized and frankly inoffensive forms of USBM, Black Fucking Cancer spat on all trends, raised their middle fingers high toward the sky and opted instead to wage a permanent aural war against all and worship directly at the wretched Norwegian altar where the pure and untouched flame of authentic nihilistic black metal burned with the vigor and intensity of a thousand plagues and pestilences. Influences as diverse as Emperor, Immortal, 1349, Gorgoroth, and Satyricon as well as Swedish nuances coming from maniacs like Craft, Dark Funeral, and Marduk can be clearly heard in their grandiose and maleficent aural framework, but one can not help but denote and gasp in awe at the band’s darkest and most malefic side - the side which more than any other one has defined them and made them such a force of pure concentrated darkness and destruction. It is here that the band’s primordial driving force is revealed, fueled by unholy and nefarious influences coming from french black metal abominations like, Aosoth, Antaeus, and S.V.E.S.T., as well as German anomalies like Katharsis, and certain dark and experimental USBM like Leviathan, Judas Iscariot and Weakling, all fused together and sublimating to horrifying heights of aural pandemonium. Black Fucking Cancer’s unholy existence has spawned two releases so far: the Summoning Aural Hell demo cassette tape which was released by revered underground American tape label Graceless Recordings (the same one to discover bands like Lycus, Pissgrave, Mortiferum, Chthe'ilist and more) and then self-released on CD by the band in limited copies, and their debut self-titled 2XLP released by legendary French extreme metal label Osmose Productions (Blasphemy, Revenge, Sadistik Execution, countless other legendary black metal bands from the 90s/00s) in collaboration again with Graceless Recordings. The monstrous 2XLP featured artwork by Italian oil painting visionary Paolo Girardi, a layout by Sutek Hexen’s Kevin Gan Yuen, and has since been hailed as an absolute cornerstone in West Coast USBM. In 2018 Black Fucking Cancer silently retreated back to their home studio to work on Boundless Arcane Invokations, their imposing 12” split with Santa Cruz CA black metal legion Gloam. On the visionary collaborative piece of American black metal set to be released on vinyl in the second half of 2019 by Sentient Ruin, the two bands envisioned the work as a single continuous and circular piece connected at both ends, with the same title for the album and for their two respective tracks as well, where the two bands trade places in taking the composition from start to finish and then dissolve the two ends as well, coercing their two creations into a cyclical and looped spell of vast, glorious, and unholy USBM pandemonium.