August 7 street date. For the past five years, Australia's Faceless Burial have been flying the flag of classicist 90s death metal, first across a demo in 2015 and then the subsequent (and acclaimed) "Grotesque Miscreation" debut album in 2017, along with the follow-up "Multiversal Abattoir" 12-inch a year later. Those latter two recordings, in particular, portrayed the potency of this power-trio, displaying an unremittingly dark and dexterous sound which draws in a variety of death metal traditions. Going from strength to strength, the band play their strongest hand yet with the full-length "Speciation". Altogether sharper and more finessed than all previous, this release spreads unimaginable death metal might with malignant ease across its deceptively epic 36-minute runtime.
September 4 street date. Altogether sharper and more finessed than all previous, "Speciation" spreads unimaginable DEATH METAL MIGHT with malignant ease. Faceless Burial exude a charisma that's totally their own, which largely comes down to the song writing itself. Where the preceding records maintained a murky 'n' malodorous aspect, that was predominantly in the sound itself; here on "Speciation", it's been parlayed into the tense 'n' treacherous textures they explore. Otherwise, no great changes have been made, nor should there be: forever twisting and never stagnating, each of these six songs reveals new corridors through which to spelunk, and efficiently so across the album’s deceptively epic 36-minute runtime. Adorned with form-meeting-content cover artwork, "Speciation" is bound to be the year's most forward-thinking/backwards-looking death metal album.
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