Ascended Dead

Ascended Dead

Evenfall Of The Apocalypse

20 Buck Spin

***NOW ON LIMITED BLEACHED MARBLE  VINYL!!! Ascended Dead return like abyss winds surging skyward from the ninth circle of Hell. New album Evenfall Of The Apocalypse heralds the dawn of the final march to extermination via barely-controlled death metal chaos and form-destroying necromancy. Ascended Dead play death metal the ancient way with an intrinsically malign pedigree and methodical cruelty scarcely heard nowadays. Flesh-peeling intensity at warp-speed, technically-frenzied leads that cut straight through bone and a relentless annihilating force that rarely ceases long enough to take a breath. Yet amidst this fiery conflagration a wholly deliberate and fanatical attention to detail and craft remain undeniable, allowing the pandemonium a distinct structure and memorability. While the band has more than enough skill and ability to perform a darkly acoustic piece like “Passage To Eternity,” a rare moment of respite, repeated spins through Evenfall Of The Apocalypse only serve to perpetuate Ascended Dead’s inexorable place at the vanguard of violent real death metal, carrying the banner into the future.

Ascended Dead

Abhorrent Manifestation

Dark Descent

"Surprisingly born under San Diego’s sun, Ascended Dead are nevertheless as ugly as it can be. Not by design nor by trying their best to sound that way but just because that foul stench they ooze from every pore is their true nature. Yes, their founding members and some of their current members have played or are still playing in other bands but none of this really matters as their main man JR stresses out that 'everything we've attained was built from the ground up and we’d like to maintain as much of a stand-alone legacy as we can.' Yes, they’ve had their fair share of struggles and obstacles to overcome—something well-documented in the booklet of last year’s self-released Ritus Mortuus compilation—but this somehow only strengthened their determination and musical idiosyncrasy. "See, a lot of bands these days wish so bad they were part of the same early extreme metal wave that swept the plate clean in the llpasceabhoate '80s but end up only second guessing how all their idols thought. But Ascended Dead are a rare case of a band who just go for it and whose DNA is naturally carrying that FTW element, that simple idea, not wait, instinct to destroy everything in sight. Necrovore, Insanity or even Sarcofago are just of some of the acts they’ve been compared to but it doesn’t really matter because after one raw-as-fuck demo, one EP and two compilations, Abhorrent Manifestation is the sound of a band who have come to term...