Shrykull Beyond Subconscious Realms cassette
Nowt but guitar, drums, and vocals on here, one reads, but you might not think it—there’s plenty of bottom-end heft to Nottingham two-piece SHRYKULL’s sound, which splits the difference between death metal and crust with intermittent grind-y and/or blackened deviations. The song titles on Beyond Subconscious Realms might have you expecting some BLOOD INCANATION-type goings-on (“Chaotic Disforms of Cosmic Misalignment”), but the music is way punkier and more direct than that. “Gateway of Nightmares” and “A Glint in the Basilisk’s Eye” bend matters towards DARKTHRONE spiked-wristband chug as these nine songs variously gallop and crawl to a full-blooded conclusion.