Maul

Maul

In The Jaws Of Bereavement

20 Buck Spin

***ON LIMITED BONE & BEER-EAVEMENT VINYL!!! With their anticipated debut full length Seraphic Punishment in 2022, Fargo’s Maul dropped one of the most memorable death metal earworms of the year. Coupled with the band’s relentless drive for bringing their music to the people live throughout the country, Maul’s reputation rapidly grew and a pact with 20 Buck Spin was scrawled in blood. The initial fruit of that union was delivered late in 2023 with the Desecration And Enchantment promo tape. And now all roads have led to Maul’s second album, In The Jaws Of Bereavement. While the rotten death metal heart at the core of the band is without question, the band have no shame in their game when it comes to embracing a penchant for the heavier side of hardcore with mosh-ready riffs and crowd-killing breaks. In The Jaws Of Bereavement manages to so skillfully fuse the eerie apparitions and melodic lead work of death metal’s greats with the punishing rhythms of hardcore’s violent power it feels completely organic. It’s all tied together by the unhinged vocal prowess of the human wrecking ball Garrett Alvarado. At its putrescent core Maul is a live band, and the songs on In The Jaws Of Bereavement are adeptly tailored to the environs of a dank club sweltering from the energy created through this music and a crowd living for nothing but the moment and the swell of bodies on bodies. The production here is clear and in one’s face, and allows the...

Maul

Desecration and Enchantment

20 Buck Spin

With the release of their full length debut ‘Seraphic Punishment’ in 2022, North Dakota’s MAUL made an instant impression on the US Death Metal underground, one they’d been building previously via various demos, splits and EPs. Subsequent heavy touring all over the country further embedded the band’s Midwest Death stylings with intense live gigs and frontman Garrett Alvarado’s menacing presence. 20 Buck Spin picked up the band on the strength of that first album and while the band painstakingly constructs their new full length album, they offer up ‘Desecration and Enchantment’ to the hordes, signaling the direction of things to come and to supply some blood to the eager zombies awaiting a new album.