Stream Bestialized’s Crushing New Album, Termestella Cvltvs

As a super-serious professional blogger for this fine establishment (read: doughy man who is paid to eat peanut butter for lunch), I receive so many promos that sometimes some really good ones slip through the cracks. So for the record, I’m aware that Termestella Cvltvs, the new album by Colombia’s Bestialized, dropped late last month. But hey, better late than never.

Because Termestella Cvltvs isn’t a typical warlike black metal assault (though it definitely has a lot of that). The seasick cosmic doom overtones of opening track “Harvest Throes” sticks around throughout, adorning the band’s furious blasting with a sort bizarre off-kilter quality. This is made only stronger by the album’s production, which forsakes the murk and churn of most war metal for a crisp but layered sound that really emphasizes the steely sound of the guitars, and reminds one of some of the wonkier moments in early Morbid Angel.

All of which is a long-winded way to say, listen to Bestialized’s new album. It’s brutal, it’s interesting, and it has a song called “Cosmic War Maggot” on it. You can’t go wrong.

Termestella Cvltvs is out now on Satanath Records. You can buy it through Bestialized’s Bandcamp.

[via Metal Underground]