Vale of Pnath are back in black. I’m gonna be real with you here: when I read in the press release that Accursed “is fueled with Tech Death adrenaline and shrouded in black metal’s iniquitous aura,” I recalled the last Alterbeast album and groaned aloud to myself. Feast wasn’t really a bad album per se, but it was not the followup to Immortal that I expected or wanted. The band’s savage twist on typical neoclassical tech death tropes had been replaced with a tired “Hail Satan” blackened aesthetic that sapped the music of the personality expressed in its predecessor. I feared a … Continue reading Tech Death Thursday: Vale of Pnath – Accursed