Blood Offerings

Necrot’s second album is a blissful nightmare come true for death metal diehards who prefer the raw and pummeling over the precise and technical. The band’s slow, low-end assault veers between shuddering songs that threaten to devolve into muddy formlessness (“Layers of Darkness”) and deliriously dense blast-beat workouts splattered with guttural vocals (“Shadows and Light”). As with their debut, buzzsaw riffs and moshpit beats abound, threading through “The Blade” and cementing their sweaty, chaotic edge.

Recorded by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege Art by Marald Van Haasteren Released by Tankcrimes

No matter how you slice this musical cadaver, Blood Offerings is death metal at its most patient and tenebrous.

Sure, it may distinguish some artists from contemporary, popular tech death metal bands, but acts described as "old-school death metal" often seem to be purveyors of timeless death metal. Oakland's NECROT most certainly forward a timeless death metal construction delivered with the coarse punk edge...