I have a foggy memory of how I found Lividus, sometime maybe 4 or 5 years ago on the recommendation of a friend. There was (I think) a demo track up on a long since overhauled Bandcamp that had an interesting combination of Hammers of Misfortune-style clean singing and expressive, heavy metal-infused blackened riffing. I found it promising at the time but it was just a single song and clearly a demonstration of ideas, roughly produced and larval. They fell into the back alleys of my thoughts. Two or so years later and a name I faintly remembered popped up … Continue reading REVIEW: LIVIDUS – Scarabaeus