Spend your Sunday getting weird with this new surprise split from Nucleus and Macabra.<\/p>\n
Aren’t splits wonderful? Two (or three or four!) similar yet distinct bands coming together and offering up either unreleased tracks or brand new ones that offer a glimpse into a band’s evolution (or lack thereof). Sometimes, on the most joyous of occasions, we’ll even get a full length’s worth of material between the two bands. Each of these is\u00a0the case for the new split between Nucleus<\/strong> and Macabra<\/strong>, and boy is it a bruiser.<\/p>\n
Nucleus is a name that should be familiar to those around these parts as their debut,\u00a0Sentient,\u00a0<\/em>was one of the better<\/a> and more off kilter death metal albums released last year. I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that the three songs here are the band’s strongest to date. Each track varies wildly from the one that precedes it. Opener “Fragment” sees the band channeling their inner Timeghoul<\/strong> (I KNOW I’M SORRY, BUT IT’S THE APPROPRIATE COMPARISON HERE) as the winding riffs funnel into a strange harmony buried underneath almost chant like cleans, while “Assimilation” sees the band in full-on doom mode. Their final song, “Beacon,” is more akin to\u00a0Sentient\u00a0<\/em>than the two tracks before it, but that certainly isn’t a bad thing.<\/p>\n