Empyrean

Pitchfork pretty much sums up Mutilation Rites. Brooklyn’s Mutilation Rites play rapid fire black metal with elements of dark doom and darker crust-the sort of USBM that feels stately and epic, but boozed soaked and feral. After demos, a split, and the like , the quartet-featuring ex-Tombs drummer Justin Ennis and new bassist Ryan Jones of Today is the Day and Wetnurse-is set to release an impressive debut LP, Empyrean on May 22 via Prosthetic. That’s where you’ll find “Realms of Dementia”, a song that brings to mind late-period Darkthrone vomiting the youthful version of themselves onto the crowd at a filthy DIY space.