Labels: Prank
Review by: Alex Deller
Heavy, morbid hardcore from Prank’s darkened stable. The Tragedy comparisons are inevitable, but there’s a murky black metallish influence at work separating Desolation slightly from the raft of copycat crust acts currently doing the rounds. Mean, raspy vocals blurt over stampeding drums and thick, churning chords, all wound tightly with miserable melodies like coarse thread sewing up our lips and eyes. From the lyrics to the artwork to the crushing sense of gloom present in the music itself, it’s all as dark and unforgiving as you’d expect from the label who coughed the likes of Artimus Pyle and Damad into our laps. Nasty.