Ghastly – Death Velour CD

Like discovering a forgotten relic of mysterious brilliance from the early Finnish death metal scene, this album is a phantasm of blinding light onto the foreboding darkness of this mortal coil. Sophomore album from this Finnish group, channeling the sound of Morbus Chron, Soulside Journey era Darkthrone, Execration, Autopsy, Merciless, Dismember, Tribulation, Carbonized (second album), Nihilist, Carnage. Ghastly conjure the horror of rotting in incomprehensible obscurity, passing into oblivion guided by a many-colored specter of strange origin across the Styx. An air of psych-induced weirdness and shrieking dread permeates the decomposed palette throughout the album’s cryptic duration.