AN NCS VIDEO PREMIERE: SKINLESS — “BARBARIC PROCLIVITY”

Of course, you’ve already grabbed a copy of the new Skinless album, Only the Ruthless Remain, and allowed it to gnaw off your leg, rupture your spleen, and rend your face into bloody tatters.

What’s that? You haven’t??? Well damn, maybe you need a little extra encouragement. We can arrange that. In fact we have arranged that, because we’re delivering right here, right now, a premiere of the band’s lyric video for the song “Barbaric Proclivity“, the title of which could hardly be a more apt description of what the song and the album exhibit, in spades.

It’s such a good song, a real meat-grinding death metal machine, but one that does more than prod the reptile part of your brain with savage riffs, skull-cracking drumbeats, horrific gutturals, and putrescent shrieks. It also couples those gruesome, grinding segments to irresistibly headband-inducing passages that alternately charge like a freight train and slam like massive, methodical hammer blows right on top of your fragile skull. But that’s still not all! Along with a lot of near-atonal riff murder, it also includes an atmospheric melodic interlude that heightens the song’s aura of morbid oppressiveness.

Yes indeed, New York’s Skinless are back in fine form, featuring the same line-up that brought us the classic Progression Towards Evil (1998): guitarist Noah Carpenter, vocalist Sherwood Webber, bassist Joe Keyser, and drummer Bob Beaulac, plus new second guitarist Dave Matthews. The new album also features suitably gory cover art by the talented Ken Sarafin.

Only The Ruthless Remain is out now on Relapse Records and it’s available in physical form here; a digital version can be acquired at this location, where you can stream the whole carnivorous thing.

Now watch and listen. Don’t make me tell you twice.

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