We don’t have to outlive. On October 18th, Swedeath mainstays Feral will release their fourth full-length To Usurp the Thrones, the anticipated follow-up to last year’s much ballyhooed split with labelmates Crawl. Hoping to build on the success of both last year’s split and 2018’s Flesh for Funerals Eternal, Feral has promised to “[launch] a massive, comprehensive onslaught… to eliminate all competition in the Swedish death metal realm.” So far, we’ve been force-fed two slabs of hefty and powerful death metal muck. “Phantoms of Antiquity” and album-closer “Stripped of Flesh” are, in true Feral fashion, menacing, tantalizing earworms, sinking their envenomed worm … Continue reading Exclusive Track Premiere: Feral’s “Bound to the Dead”