PERSECUTION - Tortured Existence CD (2016)

Death/thrash metal is one of those genre intersections where getting it wrong sounds like a mess and getting it right sounds like a war machine. Persecution get it right.

Tortured Existence came out in 2016 and sits firmly in the tradition of brutal, technically competent Australian death-thrash, a lineage that goes back to Sadistik Exekution and Gospel of the Horns and refuses to be polite about it. This is music for people who find melodic death metal a bit too tasteful and modern death metal a bit too clinical. Persecution occupy the aggressive middle ground with conviction. If you're digging through the Australian extreme metal underground, this is exactly the kind of release you're hoping to find.

CD. 2016 release. Australian band.

Fans of: Destroyer 666, Gospel of the Horns, Denouncement Pyre