VILE RITES: The Ageless Vinyl LP (Electric Blue W/ Splatter)

San Francisco has a long history of producing death metal that sounds like it was written by people who take the genre extremely seriously and also might be able to explain the Riemann hypothesis to you.

Vile Rites are part of that Bay Area lineage of technical death metal that refuses to sacrifice brutality for complexity. The Ageless is progressive death metal that actually earns the progressive tag, which is a bar more bands fail to clear than they'd like to admit. This is intricate, forward-moving stuff that sits somewhere in the territory of later Gorguts and Artificial Brain, built for listeners who find standard death metal riffs insufficiently interesting but don't want to lose the aggression. The electric blue with splatter pressing is exactly the kind of physical object that justifies keeping a turntable in your life.

Pressed on electric blue with splatter vinyl LP. US pressing. Limited quantities.

Fans of: Gorguts, Ulcerate, Artificial Brain, Vektor