Scorched

Scorched

Ecliptic Butchery

20 Buck Spin

Scorched return with their second full length experiment in barbarity. Earlier in 2018, 20 Buck Spin collected the body of Scorched non-LP material onto the Excavated For Evisceration platter, reintroducing the band under the label’s banner. And yet that collection served as mere appetizer to the main course of Ecliptic Butchery, a sadistic tale of deep space terror and desolate inhumanity smeared in blood red brutality.  The eerie bizarre intro of “Blood Splatter Eclipse” sets the unearthly mood of a place far beyond. The band fades in with a savagely slow churn indicating a crossover to a domain where piercing shrieks of pain are to be indifferently lost in the lifeless expanse of the void. The hopeless punishment continues as “Exhibits Of Torture” are everywhere and the “Mortuary Of Nightmares” leads only deeper into the horror until finally a formless mass of “Dissected Humanity” is all that remains.  Produced, mixed and mastered by Arthur Rizk (Tomb Mold, Pissgrave, Prurient), this impossibly heavy recording, seething and slicing, exemplifies the ideal Scorched operating theater for the band’s uniquely gut-wrenching death metal—simply, one of the most malicious onslaughts of 2018.

Scorched

Excavated For Evisceration

20 Buck Spin

For the past few years Delaware’s Scorched have steadily built a reputation for classic savage Northeast-style death metal featuring skull-caving heaviness, video-nasty warped synth interludes, and a cinematic taste for the gruesome and murderous.  Their 2016 debut Echoes Of Dismemberment was as subtle as a brain-matter-covered sledgehammer, a paean to everything that makes death metal still relevant, with an ever-growing fanbase after thirty years. Later this year, 20 Buck Spin will release their second full length, but first is Excavated For Evisceration, a vinyl-only introduction to the band on the label. It collects their sadistic 2017 promo tape Hymns From The Cellar on one side and the ferocious 2015 demo on the other. Through both of these recordings and their punishing live show, Scorched emerge to take the reins of the next wave of U.S. blood-red brutality.