Join the revolution. On August 2, 2024, TRDM legends Carnophage will release Matter of a Darker Nature, their 3rd LP and 1st for Transcending Obscurity Records. Back in 2016, Spear complimented the group’s second LP Monument for “[hitting] hard” yet doing so with much “finesse.” When I heard the upcoming album’s first single “Underneath the Horrendous One” back in January, I described it as “sick and slick” while also noting that odd quality of brutal death metal to almost become some kind of easy listening. I think it’s precisely that admixture of hard-hitting riffage with finessed song construction noted 8 years ago by Spear that undergirds that … Continue reading Exclusive Track Premiere: Carnophage’s “From Possibility to Actuality”