Welcome to another great Wednesday of Extreme of the Extreme. This week, dissonant death metal band Sulphur Sun unleashes their new EP Placodermic Heraldry. Placodermic Heraldry is set to release this Friday, but as the stars would have it, you can listen to it front to back today.
Sulphur Sun launched out of Switzerland in 2013 with their first, and to this point, only release, Bioluminescence. Since then, the band have released a single, "Vitreous", in 2017, but for the most part stayed quiet. Now in 2020, it would appear the world is ready for more from Sulphur Sun.
Placodermic Heraldry spans 10 minutes across two songs, which may not feel like much until you start to realise how much is packed into each of these songs. It's a dark and noisy EP, with obscured and distant vocals from Marc Wachtfels Sulaiman. Backing him up are Gregor Philip Kovats on bass, as well as Stefan Ursenbacher on drums to fill out the official Sulphur Sun lineup. Joining the band for this release, recording what the band wrote and having his own say as well is Dallas-Toller Wade (Narcotic Wasteland, ex-Nile) to round out this insanity.
Bandcamp. The full thing releases on Friday and Sulphur Sun offer their entire discography for fairly cheap so it doesn't hurt to pick up a little more for even less!
