The dead may rest but the grind goes on. San Francisco’s Cartilage return to serve up another frenzied feast with a new EP, Tales from the Entrails: A Necrology via Everlasting Spew Records. The blastmasters took their studio operations to home base for this release, enlisting Scott Evans (Kowloon Walled City, Ghoul, Thrice) for recording and mixing duties, while the genre’s perennial grindfather Leon del Muerte (Impaled, Exhumed, Nails) handled mastering. With a wealth of shows throughout the West Coast and a US tour with Gruesome under their leathers, the five-piece have tightened into a well-bloodied machine. The Bay Area gore titans continue to spill their guts across the land but with new tools in their trade: twisting harmonies and cinematic set-pieces now compliment Cartilage’s murderous arsenal alongside the blasts, ripcord riffs and vocalist Mark Wallace’s deranged proclamations fans know to expect. Tales from the Entrails: A Necrology offers the biggest color palette on a Cartilage release to date. Now with even more shades of red.

Formed in Indianapolis, Indiana, Flesher are a gore-soaked power trio consisting of Paul Breece, Davy Jaggar and Dustin Boltjes. Flesher was forged in the summer of 2022 and shortly thereafter released the Murder Sessions demo. Taking inspiration from the past, everything Flesher does pays homage to classic horror and 90’s death metal. In less than a year as a band, Flesher have released a demo and toured the midwest already sharing the stage with the likes of Internal Bleeding, Exhumed, Sanguisugabogg, Vomit Forth, Enterprise Earth and more. The band were also featured on Metal Injection’s Metal Monday, in which they praised, “This thing is fucking grotesque and I love it!” Earlier this year, Flesher signed with Redefining Darkness Records and recorded their first full length album under the guise, Tales of Grotesque Demise. The band pulled out no stops on their debut with Dan Swanö handling the master, legend Ed Repka providing the cover art and featuring guest vocals from Devin Swank of Sanguisugabogg.

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