"Suffer the Children"

Brooklyn’s Mutilation Rites have always been fans of the stream-of-consciousness approach, but on “Suffer The Children”—from their new album Harbinger, out July 22 via Prosthetic—the deafening delusions are nastier. As the band charges through crushing, highly technical passanges, and collapses rizzled heavy metal riffs, they subtly disassemble the song’s framework, employing math-y signatures and off-beat vocals to create a compelling sense of chaos. Just when you think you’re home free in the tamer sludge of the track’s second half, the quartet suddenly swoops in again for a blitzkrieg coda. Mutilation Rites’ nightmarish merger between black, death, d-beat, and doom continues to prove a winning formula—as long as you can handle the sucker-punches.