Today, mind-mangling death metallers Astral Tomb stream the entirety of their highly anticipated new EP,
Degradation of Human Consciousness , at
Decibel magazine's website . Set for international release on January 29th via Blood Harvest Records on cassette tape format, hear Astral Tomb's Degradation of Human Consciousness in its entirety exclusively
HERE .
As presaged by their track to the Chasm of Aeons four-way split shared with Cryptic Shift, Replicant, and Inoculation which Blood Harvest released this past autumn, Astral Tomb are all-too-perfectly monikered. Theirs is gross 'n' gooey dredge of deranged death metal that slices and sluices in obscene ways - all at the listener's discomfort, most of all, challenging even the most diehard death metaller. Their first longer-formed recording since their celebrated Subterranean Forms debut demo in 2019, Degradation of Human Consciousness is likewise perfectly titled, for its blown-out yet clanging soundworld consumes the listener's sanity first and then the body whole, spitting it back out - slowly, weirdly, wonderfully - in a manner that recalls both the most clandestine secrets of turn-of-the-'90s tape-trading and a future far off and none so vile.
Astral Tomb have already written your epitaph with Degradation of Human Consciousness - and they're only just begun!
Fully read that epitaph exclusively
HERE , courtesy of Decibel, North America's only monthly metal magazine. Preorder info can be found
HERE . Cover and tracklisting are as follows: