DEGRAVED (USA) – ‘Whispered Morbidity & Exhumed Remnants’ CD

In 2020, DEGRAVED released their first demo, Exhumed Remnants. Absolutely gutsfucking, this four-song salvo conspicuously nodded to the gods of downtuned DM – Cianide, Funebrarum, and early Necros Christos – but did so with the feral force and gutter-drenched ritualism. That gutter-ward descent continued with the band’s second short-length offering, 2023’s Whispered Morbidity. On this EP, the band doubled in size to a quartet, and their base barbarity received a razor-sharpened refinement, somehow becoming heavier and more heaving in the process. Still old-school to the bone, ​eerie synth lurked between slabs of guitar and guttural onslaught, proving DEGRAVED’s intoe to desecrate the tarnished earth. Now compiled onto one convenient CD, both ​Whispered Morbidity and Exhumed Remnants will together entrance the listener ​with their more-than-fait call of death ​beckoning.