Inter Arma, Thantifaxath, Wayfarer
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The biggest “fuck you” of an album released in 2019 might just be Sulphur English, the fourth full-length from Richmond, Virginia, heavies Inter Arma. The band earned a national audience with its excellent 2013 record Sky Burial, an epic slab of progressive doom. Then 2016’s Paradise Gallows earned rave reviews for its psychedelic elements and occasional pretty passages. That evolution set the band up for crossover success, and Inter Arma is certainly capable of such a thing. So what did they do next? They recorded their nastiest, gnarliest, darkest, most death metal-influenced album yet. Sulphur English is a hulking beast with a bad attitude, impressive in its execution but not for the faint of the heart.
by Ben Salmon
by Ben Salmon