Exclusive Track Premiere: Swelling Repulsion’s “Basking in Fumes of Failure”

Can you smell it? On June 5, Swelling Repulsion will release Fatally Misguided, the Colorado trio’s second LP and first for the esteemed Transcending Obscurity Records. In January, we were treated to titular lead single “Fatally Misguided,” about which I said—following Hans‘ 2021 comments on the band’s The Severed Path—the band “does not seem to have lost sight of modesty, moderation, and precision in creating immensely beguiling tech-death.” Since then, we’ve heard “Cesspool of Dismembered Memory,” a track that wastes little time wending and wefting its way through your already hopelessly tangled and fried synapses, and album closer “Sullen Light of Expired Stars,” … Continue reading Exclusive Track Premiere: Swelling Repulsion’s “Basking in Fumes of Failure”