Father Befouled

Father Befouled

Holy Rotten Blood

Dark Descent

Having eclipsed their thirteenth year, stalwart American death metal veterans Father Befouled return, their brands still hot with the flames of 2017’s Desolate Gods with Holy Rotten Blood, an enormous twenty-six minute EP of all-new morbid and unholy, dismal death metal. With new drummer Amos Rifkin (Deceased, Death of Kings) in tow, they are poised to even further espouse their militant focus of blasphemy and holy mockery. Adding even more texture and harmonies to their already serpentine sound gives an honestly uneasy feeling across the tracks. The morbid and abysmal sound is owed to Dan Lowndes (Resonance Sound Studio, Cruciamentum), who once again handled mixing and mastering. Long sidled with the “Incantation-clone” albatross, Father Befouled have moved much more-so into their own space with their last record and have fully fleshed that out with Holy Rotten Blood. While Incantation remains a huge influence (and friends), they have taken cues from many other legacy and contemporary bands along with their own unique style to craft and juggernaut of christ-destroying death metal.

Father Befouled

Enthroning Desolate

Dark Descent

A CD compilation of split, EP and live material spanning the band's ten year history of death metal darkness.

Father Befouled

Desolate Gods

Dark Descent

After a five year wait, veteran Dark Descent alumni Father Befouled return with Desolate Gods, their fourth full length offering of twisted and cacophonous death metal chaos. Picking up where 2012’s Revulsion Of Seraphic Grace left off, Desolate Gods picks up the torch, infusing their influences into a suffocating and mysterious album of serpentine riffing and lurching, cavernous doom. Compounding that is a maturity—a sound evolved from the heavy-handed Incantation worship of before—to a distinct sound all their own. In their ten year existence, Father Befouled has developed into a tried-and-true death metal machine, and Desolate Gods is the direct result of that practice: a visceral and violent expulsion of rotting death metal blasphemy. As much as the music of Desolate Gods is rooted in the influence of bands like Morbid Angel, Incantation, and Monstrosity, the lyrical direction pays homage to the ancient gods of death and chaos. The darkness that governs the universe and the pain that death creates.