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More Than Just A Name: Beastiality's "Sacrificial Chants" Will Rip Your Face Off (Early EP Premiere)


As it turns out, there isn’t much to a name when it comes to genre. Don’t get me wrong, Beastiality is a great moniker, but with a band name like that one I would expect something on the bestial side of things, and yet these ripping Swedes completely eschew their name’s Beheritian expectations in favor of finding the true meaning of (actually) bestial ripping metal on their first EP in five years (which is streaming ahead of its February 25th release date below). Hammer-blasting their way through four flesh-rending tracks of early-’90s black-thrashing-death, Sacrificial Chants glorifies early black-and-death metals and brings them to the present, but without the glut of modernity. Don’t go into this expecting anything new or original, but that’s the point here: Beastiality are a portal to the past from the present, and from that portal emerges riffs and horrifying nightmares. I went into this with the expectations to which I referenced earlier and was really happily surprised, finding myself thrashing at my desk and, eventually, around my living room. Fuck yeah.

Listen to Sacrificial Chants in full below.

From the band:

After reforming the band and heading for a mayhemic tour in Mexico the new lineup of BEASTIALITY went into the studio to capture a new blasphemic evangelium that blazes on with more vicious aggression than ever before, yet keeping the essence of the early days alive and finally here is the first manifest…

Sacrificial Chants releases February 25th via Invictus Productions.