Dark Circles / Abstracter – Split

Wretched, bleak, hopeless and incredibly dark. Canadian dark hardcore crust bruisers Dark Circles and American black sludge destroyers Abstracter bring forth waves upon waves of utter misery and horror on this crushing 12 split. Dark Circles' stark, rabid and virulently embittered dark hardcore is a firestorm of crust punk, grindcore and black metal that marvelously brings together the best and most confrontational elements of bands like Catharsis, Gehenna, Cursed, The Secret, etc. On the other hand Abstracter's bleak and hallucinatory side fuses doom, crust, drone and black metal to incarnate a staggering twenty minutes of total and horrific devastation, yielding a similar sonic hell as seen in dark and miserable slower bands like Triptykon, Primitive Man, Coffinworm, Indian, etc."

1. Dark Circles - Ashen
2. Dark Circles - Void
3. Dark Circles - Isolate
4. Dark Circles - Epilogue (Quietus) Op. 28 No. 4
5. Abstracter - Barathrum
6. Abstracter - Where All Pain Converges

Label: Sentient Ruin Labs

Catalog: 6145301

Genre: Heavy Metal