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RIPARIAN "Riparian"

By The Ram •
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's corrosive death metal outfit, RIPARIAN - uniting former members of Wrought Iron, Circle Of Dead Children, Grisly Amputation, and more - will release their eponymous debut EP through Grimoire Records this Friday. Advancing its official release, the record is streaming early exclusively through Svbterranean, alongside a track-by-track dissection of the EP's grisly ways. FFO-Bolt Thrower, Amon Amarth,Death, Gorguts

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's corrosive death metal outfit, RIPARIAN - uniting former members of Wrought Iron, Circle Of Dead Children, Grisly Amputation, and more - will release their eponymous debut EP through Grimoire Records this Friday. Advancing its official release, the record is streaming early exclusively through Svbterranean, alongside a track-by-track dissection of the EP's grisly ways.

Since their formation, RIPARIAN's sound has coalesced into an intense entity, infusing a foundation of classic death metal with technical time signature manipulation, a bit of crushing grindcore brute force, with elements of doom and dark atmospherics infiltrating the mix. The band packs five tracks of caustic, bizarre, filthy death metal into a dense, twenty-five-minute release on their debut, Riparian.

Svbterranean is streaming Riparian early, noting the EP, "consists of five chaotic tunes that meld classic buzzsaw death metal with tech death volatility, sludgy grit, and dark atmospherics. Flesh-grinding riffs collide with slamming beatdowns. Angular, writhing noise riffs morph into dissonant doom marches. It's devastating and unpredictable from start to finish."