By some terrible miracle, death metal has grown a second heart, and it beats in Prague. First Metastasis, the debut “mini-LP” from Czech act Cancer Void, is not merely a strong opening statement—it is a malignant herald. Clocking in at just under 20 minutes, this release feels less like a conventional debut and more like a specimen, surgically excised from the diseased tissue of the genre’s past and then studied, spliced, and preserved under glass. There’s a precision here, a cold and clinical self-awareness, that suggests a band not discovering its voice but already fluent in the grammar of decay. … Continue reading Review: Cancer Void – First Metastasis