MORTUOUS: Through Wilderness Vinyl LP (Swamp Green)

There's a particular kind of death metal that sounds like the earth is swallowing you, slowly, with no interest in hurrying. Mortuous make that kind of record.

San Jose's Mortuous have been quietly one of the most respected names in underground death metal for years, built on a reputation for ugly, honest, uncompromising heaviness with deep roots in the doom-death tradition. Through Wilderness is the album that cemented that. It carries the rotting spirit of early Autopsy and Winter, the kind of suffocating atmosphere that the Swedish death metal scene reached for but from a distinctly West Coast, underground American angle. Swamp Green vinyl is the correct format for a record that sounds this much like decomposing in a forest, and at this point coloured vinyl for death metal isn't just aesthetic, it's load-bearing. A must for any serious dark aesthetic or metal vinyl collection.

Format: Vinyl LP, swamp green. Genre: Death Metal, Doom-Death Metal. Origin: United States, San Jose, California.

Fans of: Autopsy, Winter, Coffins, Spectral Voice, Vastum.