TAPHOS (Denmark) - Come Ethereal Somberness (new LP copy; not sealed) (2020) Blood Harvest (re-issue) on Ultra Clear vinyl - comes with folded insert and OBI Strip which includes download code. 
As a debut LP, Come Ethereal Somberness does everything it should: stay consistent to a band's sound established on their demos whilst pointing toward new avenues. Here, TAPHOS do both, and then some. Hailing from the same Danish scene as Undergang and Phrenelith, TAPHOS create a classic - and classically gutted - style of Metal of Death.
 Their first recording, Demo MMXVI, possessed a darkly thrashing sound highly reminiscent of turn-of-the-'90s Death Metal on both sides of the Atlantic, as resolutely Scandinavian as it was American, its filthy propulsion as fresh as it was authentically ancient. 
On the subsequent two-song EP, TAPHOS' sound becomes more world-eating, their songwriting aims more epic whilst not losing the raw fury of their beginnings. **album review originally published on bloodharvestrecords.bandcamp.com**  Blood Harvest – YOTZ20-016LP