Dead In The Manger

Dead In The Manger

Cessation

20 Buck Spin

***Back in print on LP!!!  On Cessation, Dead in the Manger follows up their Transience debut from 2014 with six new stages in the grief process, resolved in their adherence to dispiriting melodic atmosphere and frenzied black carnage, ever reaching upward yet inevitably pulled down into the mire. Whether grinding forth in a cascade of blinding black metal violence or cloaked in despondent post-rock gloom, Cessation leaves no space for hope, compelling the paradoxical embrace of suffering. As before, song titles, production credits, individual personalities and origins remain trivial in service of the one true purpose for Dead in the Manger, internal disorder from external domination. The machinery of plutocratic slavery, churning and grinding the spirit of life until little remains but the last gasp of a doomed humanity, a cessation of the primal light in an absurdist nightmare.  “Dead in the Manger have released one of the most original pieces of metal this year and you would be hard pressed to find a better example of a band forging into new territory.” —Metal-Observer.com

Dead In The Manger

Transience

20 Buck Spin

Very little information was provided to 20 Buck Spin regarding Dead in the Manger when the label was initially contacted about a release—only that the band plays a mix of depressive black metal and grind (which seemed on paper an impossible combination) and that their intention is to instill feelings of unease and despondency in the listener. Nonetheless, a cursory listen to Transience leaves no doubt that on their debut mini-LP Dead in the Manger creates music both brutally violent and coldly agonizing. Transience opens with a repetitive, atmospheric motif, conjuring a bleak sadness that sets the stage for an urgent right turn to scalpel-sharp, high-BPM aggression and multiple stab wounds of hate-driven malcontent. Filled with ill will and revulsion, Dead in the Manger walks a fine line between all-out sensory violence and post-trauma exhaustion.  At just six songs in under 20 minutes, Transience destroys the listener with a calculated premeditation, and is a first glimpse at what Dead in the Manger have in store. A debut full-length album is in the works currently and will see release via 20 Buck Spin later in 2014.