Reared Up in Spectral Predation (Vinyl 12″ Album) – Universally Estranged

Universally Estranged specialise in sci-fi-drenched death metal of a most malign and mesmerizing order. The band’s public debut, ‘Reared Up in Spectral Predation’ tells its story with its psychedelically vivid song titles. ‘Despoiling Souls of Flesh Across the Galaxy’, ‘A Thing, Oozing In’, ‘Sentient Meatsack’, ‘Teeming with That of Unknown Origin’. Or, perhaps most vividly, the technicolor eye-gouge of the album’s cover artwork itself. Still, all this is only half the story. With almost alarming fluidity, Universally Estraged here create a sort of death metal that’s both cosmically levitational and grossly subterranean.