Scorched’s Ecliptic Butchery is Your Much Needed Death Metal Blast of the Day

Add Scorched’s Ecliptic Butchery to the ever-growing list of great metal albums I missed last year (I was too busy waxing ecstatic about Robyn and writing headlines about Corey Taylor, sorry!).

The Delaware outfit’s second full-length is just what’s needed on this dreary, overcast winter day, a full-throated, full-throttle blast of old school death metal projected through the filter of all sorts of other shit, much like today’s genre mish-mashing upstarts such as Gatecreeper, Outer Heaven and Blood Incantation. While OSDM serves as the base, sludge, thrash and doom all creep their way into the band’s sound, resulting in an assault on the senses that doesn’t stick on any one part or style long enough to get boring. That groove section in the middle of “Disfiguring Operations” and that Morbid Angel pick-scrape action in “Bodies Collect;” woof, fucking undeniable! And it doesn’t relent throughout the album’s 38-minute run time.

Stream Ecliptic Butchery below (it’s out now via 20 Buck Spin; order here), and catch the band on tour starting later this week (dates underneath the embed).

2/22/2019 Fantasy Ultra Lounge – Greensboro, NC
2/23/2019 Hunter Gather – Columbia, SC
2/24/2019 Hi-Tone – Memphis, TN
3/22/2019 Eli’s Mile High Club – Oakland, CA *
3/23/2019 5 Star Bar – Los Angeles, CA *
3/24/2019 Brick By Brick – San Diego, CA *
3/25/2019 Yucca Tap Room – Phoenix, AZ *
3/26/2019 Club Congress – Tucson, AZ *
3/27/2019 Neon Rose – El Paso, TX *
3/28/2019 Lime Light – San Antonio, TX *
3/29/2019 Wits End – Dallas, TX *
3/30/2019 Lost Well – Austin, TX *
3/31/2019 Poor Boys – New Orleans, LA *
4/01/2019 Fire House – Birmingham, AL *
4/02/2019 The Bakery – Atlanta, GA *
4/03/2019 Radio Room – Greenville, SC *