VILE RITES: The Ageless Vinyl LP (Black)

San Francisco has always had a complicated relationship with death metal. Vile Rites are making it even more complicated, in the best possible way.

The Ageless sits in that uncomfortable space between technical death metal and progressive death metal where the song structures refuse to behave and the musicians are clearly showing off, except it never feels like showing off. It feels like necessity. This is dark aesthetic music for people who find straightforward brutal death metal a little too predictable, who want their horror served with odd time signatures and riffs that take three listens to fully map. If you've been sleeping on Vile Rites, this black vinyl pressing is the wake-up call. The Bay Area underground has been paying attention. You should be too.

Format: Vinyl LP, Black. Genre: Technical Death Metal, Progressive Death Metal. Origin: San Francisco, California, USA.

Fans of: Gorguts, Ulcerate, Defeated Sanity, Artificial Brain.