Vastum - Inward To Gethsemane

|||        Artist Name_____> Vastum                                          |||
|||        Album Name______> Inward To Gethsemane                            |||
|||        Label___________> 20 Buck Spin                                    |||
|||        Genre___________> Death Metal                                     |||
|||        URL_____________> http://www.20buckspin.com                       |||
|||        Release Date____> 2023-12-16                                      |||
|||        Street Date_____> 2023-11-10                                      |||
|||        Size____________> 279.77mb                                         ||
||         Playtime________> 38:01                                            ||
||         Encoder_________> FLAC 1.3.1                                       ||
||         Quality_________> 965 kbps / 44.1khz / 2 channels                  ||

1  In Bed With Death                                  5:36
2  Priapic Chasms                                     6:29
3  Stillborn Eternity                                 6:04
4  Judas                                              1:41
5  Indwelling Archon                                  4:57
6  Vomitous                                           5:16
7  Corpus Fractum                                     7:58

Four years and one pandemic on from Orificial Purge, Vastum, the
longest running band on the 20 Buck Spin roster, offers up its
fifth bludgeoning document of psychic malaise and lost faith with
‘Inward To Gethsemane’. As before, the abject disgust unsparingly
captured in Vastum’s unique approach continues to drape the music
with an aura of discomfiting unease.

The cavernous density Vastum has made a core element of its
discography remains as inhuman as ever, continuing to delve into
darker atmospheres, yet never devolving into ambient murk; on the
contrary it’s always punishing and with a fearsome momentum. The
distinctively harrowing dual vocal attack of Daniel Butler and
Leila Abdul-Rauf appears throughout ‘Inward…’; the possessed
narrators of Vastum’s hellish underworld. Eight minute album
closer ‘Corpus Fractum’ manifests a transformative and even
experimental side of Vastum musically and vocally, while
sustaining the characteristic merciless power the band is revered
for across its five albums.

Between the sporadic but legendary live performances and a
worshipped discography of modern era true Death Metal, Vastum has
become a torchbearer of the grisly and grotesque underground, both
within its native Bay Area and well beyond. ‘Inward to Gethsemane’
carves another notch in Vastum’s totem of deviance.

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