STREET TOMBS: Reclusive Decay Vinyl LP (Silver)

San Diego has quietly been doing something feral. While everyone looks to the usual death metal coordinates, Street Tombs crawled out of that sun-bleached city with a sound that sounds like it was recorded in a drainage tunnel and mixed in a panic, and that is an absolute compliment.

Reclusive Decay sits at the intersection of death metal, thrash, and punk in a way that doesn't feel like genre math, it feels like necessity. This is music made by people who mean it, crossing over the kind of raw aggression that made early Autopsy and Discharge essential without trying to be either of them. The silver vinyl pressing is the right format for this one, something that looks as corrosive as it sounds. Death metal and punk on the same record without the seams showing is harder than it looks, and Street Tombs make it look almost effortless in the least corporate sense of the word.

Vinyl LP, silver pressing. Death metal, thrash, punk. US origin, San Diego, California.

Fans of: Autopsy, Discharge, Midnight, Power Trip, early Obituary