MUTILATE (NY, USA) - Contagium (new LP; not sealed) (2019) Released by Iron Bonehead Productions on 140gram Black vinyl - limited to 400 copies (on BLACK) worldwide.
Striking while the iron's red-hot, MUTILATE return with their even stronger and more disgusting 2nd full-length studio offering, "Contagium." Aptly titled, Contagium is a throbbing wellspring of pus and pestilence: crude 'n' rude DEATH METAL from an arcane age. 
Without almost effortless aplomb, MUTILATE build upon the already-firm rudiments of their debut "Tormentium" and simply add a darker, more crushing aspect as well as classically headbanging moments. 
And yet, for the even-more-overt heaviness here, "Contagium" also breathes a more haunting, otherworldly atmosphere - much like its cover art, as it were - perhaps best exemplified by the album's closing title track. Dizzying and delirious, or simply down-tuned and doomed to fuck: there's no escaping this Contagium!  --  Iron Bonehead Productions – IBP421