Universally Estranged: Reared Up In Spectral Predation - COMPACT DISCS

Title: Reared Up In Spectral Predation
Artist: Universally Estranged
Label: Blood Harvest Records
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5056321632555
Genre: Heavy Metal, Heavy Metal
Release Date: 2021-05-07
Number of Discs: 1

One of the most exciting new hordes BLOOD HARVEST has come across in recent years, UNIVERSALLY ESTRANGED specialize in sci-fi-drenched death metal of a most malign and mesmerizing order. The band's public debut, Reared Up in Spectral Predation tells it's story with it's psychedelically vivid song titles, or perhaps most vividly, the Technicolor eye-gouge of the album's cover artwork itself. Still, all this is only half the story... With almost alarming fluidity, UNIVERSALLY ESTRANGED here create a sort of death metal that's both cosmically levitational and grossly subterranean. It's throb is thunderous, literally earthquaking, but reveals reverberating echoes across space and time; the riffs are RIFFS, but also striker weirder and wilder than most Death Metal Riffs; an undercurrent of synths or synth-like sounds or not synths at all coil and uncoil and recoil and re-uncoil with a regularity that's random and structured simultaneously; and the songwriting, as a whole, ably bridges down-tempo ooze and slipstream speed alike, with equal emphasis on mangling the mind and lodging deeply within it. Put another way, Reared Up in Spectral Predation is a portal to infinite possibilities, but also an end destination - too frightening and fantastic to behold. The only option is to don one's best spacesuit and plunge right in... or upward.

Tracks:
1.1 (Intro)
1.2 Despoiling Souls of Flesh Across the Galaxy
1.3 The Visitor
1.4 A Thing, Oozing in
1.5 Sentient Meatsack
1.6 Teeming with That of Unknown Origin
1.7 Internecine Psychic Bloodletting
1.8 Reared Up in Spectral Predation
1.9 (Interlude)
1.10 Blistered Under the Blue Illusion