Harassor

***REISSUED ON CD!!! From the globe-shattering behemoth of Slayer to the esoteric and arcane criterion set forth by the Black Twilight Circle collective, Southern California has cultivated its own distinctly refined extreme metal repository over the past many decades. Scorching its way out of this distinguished lineage came Harassor, a streamlined monstrosity evoking the consummate hallmarks of black, death, and doom metal without ever completely surrendering to any inveterate order. Their shrewdly raw yet deceptively deft attitude was enough for the predominantly industrial/minimal synth-minded Dais Records to unleash their apogeic 2014 LP Into Unknown Depths, one of the label’s few ventures into full-on metal. The instantaneous acclaim illuminated this rarest of anomalies: a band rising out of one of the more uncordial corners of the underground receiving universal accolades through their own studious and diverse ingenuity rather than by sacrificing their sonic extremity. Given the breadth of their concurrent activities (vocalist Pete Majors fronts progressive doom sextet Qaalm, guitarist James Brown III has been focusing on his one-man black metal outlet Moonknight, while drummer Sandor GF explores everything from noise to industrial to IDM in both solo and group settings), it’s no shock that Into Unknown Depths not only barrels forth with relentless fury, but also exposes more unorthodox influences, from the death-rock arpeggios that lead “Winter’s Triumph” to the street punk chug of “The Harassor” not to mention the scorched-earth sludge of closer “Purest Hate.” For the first time, Into Unknown Depths is seeing release on CD, newly remastered by Sandor GF with an extra scuzzy serration that allows this classic to be heard the way it was intended. Co-released between GF’s Universal Consciousness and Brown’s Rising Beast Recordings.  
 
“Somewhere between FTW nihilism and abject terror, Harassor whip up a black metal hellstorm of furious misanthropy, alcohol-soaked bloodlust and a well-deserved hatred of humanity. Don’t blow it.”  
~J. Bennett, Decibel Magazine