Heavy, bloated, filthy ghosts. Permit me a disemboweled straw man: there is a predominating sense that death metal bands channeling any of the various heydays of the multifarious genre either succeed in reinventing the wheel for modern audiences or fail in wearing aforesaid wheel like a dragging millstone around their necks. I am not even particularly interested in conversations that attempt to parse who channels properly or improperly the Once and Still Greats, but it’s an unavoidable paradigm. Fortunately, some bands such as Tennessee’s Pissrot are so deeply uninterested in such valuations that you can chuck the proverbial wheel, baby, and bathwater … Continue reading Exclusive Track Premiere: Pissrot’s “Spectral Mass”