Crucifyre is a Swedish death metal band comprised of frontman Erik "Tormentor" Sahlström and members of Shelter, Afflicted, Nasum, and Goddess. Surprisingly, they're not an Entombed rip-off or a grindfest, preferring mid-tempo doom-beats that only occasionally turn up the heat to approach a blast-beat roil. Lash these mean beats to some thrashy chain-link grooves, ashy black metal production, and throaty madmen vocals à la Possessed, and you have a rock 'n' roll rager to light up a party at the end of days.
Post Vulcanic Black is Crucifyre's third LP and picks up where their second LP,
Black Magic Fire, left off. This is one of those cases where if it ain't broke, don't mess with it too much. Tormentor and crew know how to write a savage death metal serenade, and that's all you need in your life sometimes. Additional possible selling points? They're aggressively, and amusingly, anti-Christian, in the "we're Satanists and declare war on Christ" sorta way that American heshers should be fairly accustomed to after two-plus decades of Deicide, but which comes across as more of a Venom-esque, "we're the villains of this story, and damn does it feel good to be bad" kinda camp in practice (it's less annoying the Ghost's schtick, trust me). You know the type. Lots of big blasphemous, tongue-in-cheek proclamations of mendacious intent, little to no actual church burning (thankfully!).
Practice what you Pulverize (Records).
