Horrendous

“Traditional, classic death metal,” is how guitarist/vocalist Damian Herring describes Horrendous.

OK, Behemoth have the authoritative death-black hybrid thing perfected. Watain has done — via literal death garb and all sorts of illicit/disgusting ingestion stuff — for black metal what the Norwegians wanted to do. The Devil’s Blood has the whole occult folk-rock-doom triangle on lock, which corresponds somewhat nicely to Watain’s own occult aspirations/bloodlust. And…