Los Angeles-based death metal squad MORTAL WOUND is set to unleash their debut full-length album, Anus of the World.
Dark Descent Records will release Anus of the World on CD, cassette and digital formats, with Me Saco un Ojo Records handling vinyl treatment and additional cassette orders.
The band is now streaming the album’s opening track, “Found Dead in a Bush.” Listen now at this location.
Pre-order Anus of the World at
darkdescentrecords.bandcamp.com
mesacounojo.com (vinyl orders)
Tracklisting:
- Found Dead in a Bush
- Tunnel Rat
- The Surf is Gonna Be Bitchin’
- Drug Filled Cadaver
- One Who Kills & One Who Loves
- Born Again Hard
- Engulfed in Liquid Hellfire
- The Worm Has Turned for You
- Spirit of the Bayonet
- Even the Jungle Wanted Him Dead
- Royally Fucked Forever
Artwork for Anus of the World by *Karina* (@tatchupitchu).
From the start of the sampled introduction to the sadistic battering that follows, this record is a masterclass in well-produced Death Metal that reeks of the 90s brutality while keeping things totally organic. The first minute of this album will churn you into a slime-like ichor with its pulverizing intensity and crushingly tight instrumental hooks. These are topped with gargantuan vocals that will regurgitate any bone matter from your corpse.
With a real void in the underground for bands such as this, it seems many are afraid to even try and give such an unforgiving take on extremity, or MORTAL WOUND intimidate the competition. With atmospherics but nothing short of total carnage at any given moment, you will constantly be in grotesque ecstasy at this abhorrent masterpiece.
This is one of those releases where any lover of Death Metal will definitely be satisfied. Unsavory soundscapes delivered with a totally incredible production showcases some of the best songwriting chops you will hear combined with an unfathomable lust for desecration of all things, living or dead. Monstrous grooves contort with a technical proficiency that is not a pretentious show of skill as much as sonic laceration fired forth with unmistakable excellence.
Not only does this harken back to some of the genre’s most punishing acts, Mortal Wound show they have more than enough personality and songwriting to stand on their own feet as one of the strongest death metal bands of the current day. Hammering furiously until the end, do you think you can withstand this record? Prove it, blast it at full volume and give yourself to this morbid offering…
Stream MORTAL WOUND’s 2019 EP Forms of Unreasoning Fear and the band’s 2021 split with Gutless on Spotify and Apple Music.
MORTAL WOUND is:
Sam Shriver – Giutar, Vocals and Samples.
Mathias Hofmeister – Bass
Peter King – Guitar
Devlin Baldwin – Drums
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