KINGDOMS OF DIN

Heavy metal will never die, which makes sifting through new records feel like everlasting torment. Luckily, I am here to guide your lost souls, beginning with Australian death metal trio Faceless Burial. The band has one boot in the astral plane and the other in the rotting corporeal, embracing complexity without losing their face-splitting intensity. Their third album, At the Foothills of Deliration (out on Dark Descent and Me Saco Un Ojo), deepens the band’s reach on both fronts; it’s knottier and more brutal than ever. Faceless Burial’s interplay bounces with coordinated recklessness; think of their musicianship as an otherworldly ping-pong game between two

warring demigods, and Earth is the helpless ball that’s never served a soft hit. Neither player will go out of bounds. The instrumental “Haruspex at the Foothills of Deliration” throws back to Australian death-doom GOATs diSEMBOWELMENT, with gliding synths and choral backing vocals that fade into “Redivivus Through Vaticination. ” Deliration attacks with deftness, owing more to death metal’s greater psychedelic onslaught than any specific style.