VASSAFOR / TEMPLE NIGHTSIDE (NZ/Aus) – split LP (red vinyl)

IRON BONEHEAD brings together two of the black/death underground’s best, most towering hordes: VASSAFOR and TEMPLE NIGHTSIDE. Widely revered in the underground for their serpentine sonic sorcery, VASSAFOR here deliver four of their most direct tracks to date, grinding forth with utter barbarism that nevertheless retains the band’s characteristically mesmeric quality – and a certain hideous hypnosis. On the flip, TEMPLE NIGHTSIDE carry forward the bestiality with two soul-rending shards of gnawing, beyond-sepulchral Metal of Death that, over their more extended length, frequently drive deep into totally doomed territory.