Agathocles – Christianity Means Tyranny
The doomy parts are more spectral than ever
Odds Against Tomorrow retrofits familiar folk/blues forms to the unique sound of Orcutt’s guitar and the result crackles with a freshness and authority that nostalgic retreads cannot deliver
as we were still supporting the last album on the road with tours across the US and Canada
For A Chaos Of Flowers guitarist/vocalist Robin Wattie drew heavily on the poems of artists whom Wattie found kinship in
Asystole – Siren To Blight LP restocked Agathocles – Christianity Means TyrannyLed by guitarist extraordinaire Pat Hawkins (THAETAS, ABERRATED, NEEDLEPUSHER, KYRIOS) and bass virtuoso Kyle Linderman, New York's ASYSTOLE debut with an album of furious death metal that doesn't sacrifice atmosphere for technique. In the grooves of "Siren To Blight" there is an abundance of both, thanks to an articulated but fluid songwriting, brilliant and open to contamination. If the influences are those of GORGUTS, VIRUS, KRALLICE, CRYPTOPSY and