Wale album about nothing zippy8/15/2023 ![]() On Deserted, Gatecreeper grab hold of their destiny, cementing their status as not only the valedictorians of death metal's new class, but one of metal's most promising bands, period. Maybe you can only fully appreciate beauty after seeing a guy’s gaping, disfigured face, jaw busted in two, on their uncensored album cover. That Pissgrave can find something tender in all the chaos is shocking, but it also makes perfect sense. But existence is not all horror and contempt: Beauty runs alongside it, and “Rusted Wind” ends on a gorgeous funeral march, like a Viking death ritual. ![]() Humiliation is all smattering, impulses, and extremities laid out, absolutely committed to ugliness. ![]() It maps how violent impulses and urges can surge even in the calmest of us, how they can seem endless even when change is inevitable and feels incomprehensible to ourselves. ![]() Nothing about their second record, Posthumous Humiliation, is remotely approachable-not the lower-than-low barks not the squealing, hardly linear guitar leads not the pounding battery at the start of “Euthanasia.” But Humiliation splays out its ugliest impulses and extremities for all to see, and in that way, it feels lucid.
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