Dan Curhan
As the author of now-defunct @fuck__mushrooms I had to buy this for the shrooms (more like the Daedalea quercina *wink*) alone. Total bonus that it slaps too. \m/
BLOOD HARVEST RECORDS is proud to present MYCELIUM's highly anticipated second album, Mycoticism (Disseminating the Propagules), on CD, vinyl LP, and cassette tape formats.
The CD and Cassette versions will be released on November 25th while the vinyl version will follow next year.
MYCELIUM is the work of Greg Edwards, who made a name in the black metal scene with Necronoclast during the first decade of the new millennium. With MYCELIUM, the Scotsman shifted gears to grimy, mushroom-obsessed death metal, and birthed the band's debut album, Scream Bloody Spore, just last year. While his tongue may seem firmly in cheek, it's rather a gallows-humor cleverness that guides his new creations, and it's taken powerful, pungent flight with the tongue-twisting follow-up Mycoticism (Disseminating the Propagules).
Those expecting some mid-era Carcass worship might be mildly disappointed by Mycoticism - but those who worship at the altar of ALL '90s death metal styles will find MYCELIUM a nuclear-mushroom trip worth taking. Once again recording everything himself, Edwards finds that elusive balance between the crushing and the clean, the crunch given gleam AND grime through propulsive death metal songwriting steeped equally in old New York, Stockholm, Tampa, and Finnish schools. Likewise, his lyricism finds absolute horror in the natural sciences, raising "nerdiness" to new levels of frightening, ferocious FUNGAL mania. At 37 minutes and across ten taut tracks, Mycoticism stuns with its compact attack, bridging blast and slam, vortex and beatdown, go-for-the-throat riffing and backwards crawl, all with utter aplomb.
The natural world around us is a brutal place, and MYCELIUM paints a putrescent picture of it with Mycoticism (Disseminating the Propagules).
supported by 68 fans who also own “Mycoticism: Disseminating the Propagules”
If you can call a band OSDM while recognizing they’ve clearly transcended the category, then I will love that band. I love this band. Some of the best songwriting of any musical era or genre. Just masterful. Every new release is an artistic spectacle that compares with your favorite albums, musicals, or films. They’re becoming one of my all time favorites. Metallurgical Fire
supported by 68 fans who also own “Mycoticism: Disseminating the Propagules”
If ya dig in your face heavy death metal this album checks all of the right boxes. Deep into your bowels vocals, a pummeling rhythm section that’s gonna make you have to change your underwear several times and gigantic riffs that will make your skin crawl out the door to get several bacon cheeseburgers! This is one of my favorite all time albums and one of the best of 2019. Get hip. Get blown away…. Grouchomarc