Originally from The Philippines and now based in Costa Rica, Deiphago have mastered the art of inflicting black/death musical assaults that are both incinerating and transfixing. Their 2012 full-length Satan Alpha Omega was one of the best in this genre that I heard last year, and their two songs on Accept the Mark are just as compelling.
Ritual Combat are from Los Angeles, with one full-length on their resume, 2010’s Occultus Requiem. Their tracks on Accept the Mark are examples of raw, bestial black metal, shot through with blasting snares and scathing tremolo-guitar vitriol. This is intense black metal, ugly, hateful, and caked in grime and guts, but with some memorable morbid riffs riding the palpable waves of malignancy that drive the music.

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