Torture Rack

Torture Rack

Primeval Onslaught

20 Buck Spin

Torture Rack exists for one reason, to pulverize skulls and grind bones through bludgeoning gore-soaked death metal depravity. New album Primeval Onslaught continues that bloodstained legacy, witnessed previously on Barbaric Persecution and Malefic Humiliation, with a barrage of meat-torn-from-bone riffs and greased-flesh savagery. Death metal for degenerates and desecrators might be the proper way to characterize Torture Rack’s uninhibited slaughter. This sort of derangement doesn’t care about some rational spin or greater purpose that might be found to rationalize its existence. Its goal is only to smother out a victim’s life, bury the body in the backyard and venerate the carnage. Torture Rack’s songwriting and intent on Primeval Onslaught has been tightened like a garrote, filling each track with meathooks into the skin and precise, constant battering, rarely eclipsing the four minute mark. And like the most successfully persistent maniac, it’s in and it’s out before there’s been time to comprehend the pile of bodies left in its wake.

Torture Rack

Malefic Humiliation

20 Buck Spin

The Pacific Northwest continues to be a stronghold for relevant new death metal in 2018 with Portland’s Torture Rack among the few that are leading the pack. This second album, Malefic Humiliation, captures the savagery of their live shows, which have become the stuff of legend; subtlety bludgeoned, beaten and hacked to nothing but a red mess of leftovers.  With a lineup that includes members of label mates Witch Vomit, this band carves out their mark on the festering corpse of the Northwest with this release, bashing through nine tracks in just under thirty minutes. “Mace Face,” “Corpse Revenge” and “Destined For Dogmeat” ain’t for the faint and the vile cover art by Sebastian Mazuera makes real the sole intent of the band: barbarism.