Misery Rites, the newest album from Canadian grindsters Wake, opens with a slow dirge that’s anchored by melancholic howls and oceanic riffs. It’s a fitting introduction to an album on which the band expands their palette beyond the straight-ahead blistering grindcore (complete with buzzsaw guitars) of their previous album, 2016’s Sowing the Seeds of a Worthless Tomorrow, to incorporate elements of sludge and technical death metal.…
Misery Rites, the newest album from Canadian grindsters Wake, opens with a slow dirge that’s anchored by melancholic howls and oceanic riffs. It’s a fitting introduction to an album on which the band expands their palette beyond the straight-ahead blistering grindcore (complete with buzzsaw guitars) of their previous album, 2016’s Sowing the Seeds of a Worthless Tomorrow, to incorporate elements of sludge and technical death metal.…