MALEFICIUM Ritual Enslavement (2018) EP CD

Australia keeps producing death metal bands that sound genuinely pissed off about something, and Maleficium is no exception.

Ritual Enslavement is a 2018 EP from this Australian act, landing somewhere in the filthy overlap between old-school death metal aggression and blackened darkness. It's ugly in the right ways, with the kind of atmosphere that makes it a natural fit alongside Destroyer 666's war-ready menace and the churning brutality of Sadistik Exekution. Short, sharp, and nasty, exactly what an EP should be. If you've been sleeping on the heavier end of the Australian underground metal scene, this is a solid place to wake up.

CD, EP format. Released 2018. Australian artist.

Fans of: Malichor, Vexation, Destroyer 666, Sadistik Exekution.