CRUCIFIER (USA) – ‘Say Your Prayers’ MCD

Now, four years after their last recording (the full-length Thy Sulfur Throne on High), CRUCIFIER return to ruin everyone’s day with a five-song/26-minute mini-album titled Say Your Prayers. Primal but not primitive, weird and wandering but fully locked-in and never forgetting the METAL aspect, the quartet create a ghastly, grimy experience here, with Grant’s vocals in particular stunning in their diabolic delirium. Furthering that delirium are the mind-mangled leads by Spencer “Madman” Murphy, also aided by Grant, altogether proving that CRUCIFIER’s eldritch sound is eternal.