SHED THE SKIN Harrowing Faith Vinyl (2016)

Death metal peaked decades ago, and most bands know it, so they pick a era and dig in. Shed The Skin picked the right one.

Formed from members of Ringworm and Decrepit Birth, Shed The Skin aren't doing anything accidental. Harrowing Faith (2016) is old-school death metal worship executed with genuine conviction, the kind of record that sounds like it was recorded in a basement in 1992 but hits harder because it wasn't. There's a heaviness here that owes as much to OSDM atmosphere as it does to sheer riff density. If you've been burned by too many polished, clinical death metal records, this is the antidote. Dark aesthetic, real dirt, no apologies.

Vinyl LP. 2016 pressing. USA death metal.

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