With scene contemporaries such as Succumb, Vastum, and Necrot, the Bay area is stock-piling an impressive battalion of lethal death-metal acts. Front-and-center leading the charge is San Fran's Acephalix. With riffs that soar high and knuckles that drag low, these death-rollers excavate the catchiest and foulest moments from Autopsy and Swe-death (Entombed, Grave, Nihilist), but coat the streamlined focused-fun with crust-punk filth. Excellent production makes the groove-heavy, mid-tempo battery all the more contagious.
RIYL: Bolt Thrower, Undergang, Entombed, Incantation -Bozz
Track List:
- Upon This Altar
- Suffer (Life in Fragments)
- Mnemonic Death
- God is Laughing
- Excremental Offerings
- Egoic Skin
- Decreation