MORTIFERUM - Preserved In Torment (Vinyl) (LP)

On their sophomore album Preserved In Torment, Olympia
WA's doomed death metal unit Mortiferum push their
penchant for dark, depraved, and disgusting dirges even
further out into the periphery. Picking up where they left off
with their Profound Lore debut Disgorged From Psychotic
Depths, the band continues to mine the poisonous quagmire
of classic American death metal, the warped visions
of Finnish death metal, and the suffocating lurch of
funeral doom for inspiration, but the resulting six tracks
here operate on a larger scale, both in musical scope and in
sheer crushing weight.
Recorded over the span of twelve days at Soundhouse
in Seattle WA with Andrew Oswald at the engineering
/ mixing helm, Preserved In Torment finds Mortiferum
expanding on the ominous atmospherics of their past work
while simultaneously pushing and refining their work
into even more vile and oppressive sonic territories-the
listener is laid to waste with the band's monolithic siege
and impossibly heavy riffs with relentless mid-tempo drum
barrages creating the aural equivalent of being trampled
beneath the hooves of some unstoppable army. Mortiferum
doesn't shy away from long-form songwriting on Preserved
In Torment, yet the band doesn't waste a note in crafting
these epic assaults.