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Just
days before Olympia, Washington-based 20 Buck Spin sets mysterious metal
legion, DEAD IN THE MANGER's, Cessation LP loose
upon the public, investigative metal webzine, Steel For Brains, has hosted an
exclusive stream of the entire torrential album.
The
follow-up to the anonymous act's malicious Transience EP,
released approximately a year ago,DEAD IN THE MANGER's ominous objective
is made all the more evident on their debut full-length endeavor, Cessation.
The album surely unleashes the expected searing and blast-driven
grind/black metal alloy as its predecessor, yet also explores much more
spacious and trance-inducing textures, opening portals to new realms of their
insidious dimension through six unnamed movements. Once again, the identity of
the members and the origin of the outfit remain anonymous to allow their
belittling delivery to be the focal point of their auditory rapture. Digging
into the band's collective dead heart for insight into Cessation,
Steel For Brains has interrogated the band alongside an exclusive early listen
to the entire album, issuing, "Cessation is defined as the
process of ending. If that journey into the terminal blackness of our end ever
needed a soundtrack, DEAD IN THE MANGER just greased the
rails."
Explore
DEAD IN THE MANGER's entire Cessation at Steel For Brains
through THIS PORTAL.
The
band's Handshake Inc.-directed video for "II" was recently premiered
via Decibel at THIS LOCATION.
20
Buck Spin will officially release Cessation this Tuesday,
February 3rd, on 12" vinyl and through all prime digital outlets. Orders
for the LP and shirt packages can be placed HERE and the digital HERE.
Whether
grinding forth in a cascade of blinding black metal violence or cloaked in
despondent post-rock gloom, Cessation leaves no space for
hope, compelling the paradoxical embrace of suffering, the album shrouded in
appropriately bleak artwork courtesy of Misanthropic Art (Secrets Of The Moon,
Hooded Menace, Attic). The machinery of plutocratic slavery, churning and
grinding the spirit of life until little remains but the last gasp of a doomed
humanity, a cessation of the primal light in an absurdist nightmare.
Noisey/Vice issued in part of the album in an early track premiere, "it's
even better than their first EP. Smoldering black metal, gloomy post-rock, and
flourishes of technical, melodic death congeal into something diabolically
unique. These dudes know what they're doing." Metal Insider reviewed the
record, praising, "DEAD IN THE MANAGER are a band on a
mission, not unlike an army marching to war, knowing they will try like hell to
take everyone down with them when they go. Yet, no matter how fast and pissed
this album gets there are still those ever-prevailing elements of somber
isolation and dread. Needless to say that Cessation is an
album not recommended for those of weak constitution. It's the type of album
that would chew you up and spit you out if you let it, like an owl depositing
the remains of its kill in unwanted little piles." With a 4/5 rating,
Skulls 'N Bones' review included, "it's obvious that DEAD IN THE
MANGER put a lot more thought into the composition and arrangement of
their music than just brutality and aggression," and Meat Mead Metal's
rave critique offers, "DEAD IN THE MANGER are well on their
way to establishing themselves as one of the most vicious, hopeless
(philosophically, that is) bands in the extreme metal arena. They don't give a
damn what they throw into their poisonous stew, as long as it maims and
continues to give off a sense that everything they know is horrible and
eventually going to destroy."
Source: Earsplit
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