At any given time, there’s a long list of bands out there in the dense jungle of madness that is the metal underground that are priming themselves to really show us what they’re made of in some form or another with loads of them having tons of anticipation surrounding their activities. While we’re always dealing with big names and the nervous wait for new material, it’s with the smaller bands that make up the backbone of such anticipations to ensure we always having something unexpected around the corner. It was just last year that we finally heard new music from Crawl thanks to their brief split with Feral, but that was but an appetizer for a greater course. Luckily, we didn’t have to wait long for the entree to come out, and it’s just as flavorful and magnificent as we could ask for.

It has been a long six years since Crawl put out what was their only full-length album, “Rituals”, and it’s clear that they’ve spent those years viciously honing their craft to a deadly edge. Already, Crawl was an act that was not to be underestimated with their particular brand of crusty death metal the exact kind of evisceration that one could ask for out of the sound for all of its riffs, macabre atmosphere, and ripping speed that doesn’t leave so much as a millisecond for survival for the poor damned souls caught in the crossfire. For “Altar of Disgust”, though, it feels as though Crawl has tapped into something special to bring the album to life. Eleven tracks of some of the most intoxicating crust that the underground has seen since the last time Crawl came forth from its tomb, this is an album whose fury cannot be denied, nor can it simply be put down. Furiously infectious and exceedingly powerful all the way to its ominous ending, “Altar of Disgust” lives up to its potential to the maximum with every given track in this record enough to make you want to put your head straight through a wall of solid concrete with the fire in your veins compelling you to do as Crawl commands. This is death metal of a particularly nasty variety where nothing is left to chance and survival isn’t even an option which Crawl uses to the deadliest possible effect.

The follow-up that many of us were praying for, a massive has been lifted off our shoulders in knowing that Crawl is indeed the real death of the underground. This is intensity of a breed that one simply cannot pin down for how much its writhes, squirms, and shifts in and out of this realm of madness to transport the listener to chaotic realms that only this particular kind of insanity could ever hope to tap into. By and large, Crawl’s conquest of the underground is only further brought justice with all that’s to be found within “Altar of Disgust”.

“Altar of Disgust” releases on May 3rd via Transcending Obscurity Records!

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