MALEVOLENT CREATION The Fine Art Of War (1998) Vinyl LP

By 1998, death metal had already eaten itself twice and was busy spitting out the bones. Malevolent Creation didn't care. They just kept writing riffs that sounded like a war crimes tribunal held in a Florida swamp.

The Fine Art Of War arrived mid-career and mid-chaos, the band cycling through lineups the way other people cycle through band shirts. What stayed constant was the brutality, the precision underneath the blast beats, and Brett Hoffmann's throat doing things no medical professional would endorse. This 2013 repress of the 1998 full-length keeps that ugliness intact on vinyl, which is honestly the only format that does justice to death metal this uncompromising. If your collection runs deep into Floridian death metal, this belongs next to your Obituary and your Deicide, no apology needed.

Vinyl LP. 2013 pressing of the 1998 original. Full-length album. US death metal.