BURIAL

Satanic Upheaval APOCALYPTIC WITCHCRAFT

Misanthropic Mancunians stay resolutely in the black

Currently celebrating their 15th year making synapse-shattering, eardrum-rattling, deathinfused black metal, this Manchester-based power trio mark their milestone with arguably their most monstrous collection of songs yet. Fusing occult ideas and themes with a misanthropic commentary on real world issues, Burial’s third album will stop you dead in your tracks and is full of no-frills, utterly brutal extreme music that tips a cap to black metal’s roots. Hellish Reaping Screams is a big moment that fans of ferocious, lightning-fast blastbeats, tremolo picking, black’n’roll and old-school Hammer Horror will love. The title track is a devilishly good slab of sonic savagery, while Cursed By The Light

is a grandiose and unflinchingly grim epic that’s built around one mighty yet mournful riff and ends proceedings in electrifying fashion. ■■■■■■■■■■

FOR FANS OF: Bathory, Immortal, Darkthrone

EDWIN MCFEE