CIVEROUS / STYGIAN OBSESSION Anniversary of Affliction Cassette

Split releases are a different kind of handshake. Two bands, one tape, a shared acknowledgement that what they're doing belongs in the same room together.

Civerous have been building a reputation in the American underground for death and doom work that feels genuinely ancient, not in a retro cosplay way but in the way that certain music sounds like it was excavated rather than written. Stygian Obsession bring black metal weight to the pairing, and together Anniversary of Affliction covers a lot of ground in the black, death and doom space without ever feeling scattered. This is cassette culture at its most intentional, the kind of release that exists specifically because physical formats still mean something to people who take extreme music seriously.

Format: Cassette Split. Origin: USA. Genre: Black / Death / Doom Metal. Available now at ALT CVLT.

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