DENOUNCEMENT PYRE Black Sun Unbound (2016) CD

Melbourne's underground has always punched well above its weight in extreme metal, and Denouncement Pyre are one of the clearest reasons why.

Active since the early 2000s, these Brisbane veterans have spent years building one of the most relentlessly hostile bodies of work in Australian black/death metal. Black Sun Unbound is their third full length, and it hits like ritual warfare, war metal at its most deliberate and suffocating, with riffs that feel like they were dredged from somewhere genuinely dark. If you've been working through the Australian extreme metal canon, from Nocturnal Graves to Destruktor to Diocletian across the Tasman, this belongs in the same shelf. Australian metal, properly mean, no apologies.

Full length album, CD format. Country of origin: Australia. Genre: black/death metal. Released 2016.

Fans of: Nocturnal Graves, Diocletian, Destruktor, Malichor.