morpheus-descends

Morpheus Descends playing NY w/ Malignancy, Thantifaxath and others before MDF (IO presents)

Morpheus Descends
Morpheus Descends
Morpheus Descends

NYC death metal vets Morpheus Descends are on board for two North American festivals this year, Maryland Deathfest and Montreal’s Obscene Extreme, and they’ll play a hometown show not long before MDF. It happens May 10 at Saint Vitus with Malignancy, Thantifaxath, Imperial Triumphant and Ramlord, presented by our metal sister site Invisible Oranges and Signature Riff. Here’s some of what Wyatt wrote over at IO:

Morpheus Descends is something of an underground NYC death metal legend, an early runner alongside Immolation, Malignancy, Suffocation and the like that produced just two EPs, a demo and one album before calling it quits in 1998. Though the band reunited on and off, they never recorded again. It’s a shame, as those early releases are gems–pummeling and poised–and they are now rightly highly sought after. 2015 is when the engine gets going again for Morpheus Descends. The band will be playing Maryland Deathfest, the inaugural installment of Obscene Extreme in North America and, now, Saint Vitus. They’re also recording a new full-length.

Malignancy kept it going through the 90s, and they top off the bill with Morpheus Descends as NYDM brothers in arms. Canada’s Thantifaxath comes from a different end of the spectrum, and is responsible for one of last year’s best albums, the bleak, wonky and claustrophobic Sacred White Noise. New York’s Imperial Triumphant just released a new album of twisted and cavernous black metal that’s been earning “game-changer” comparisons to Gorguts’ Obscura, and Ramlord just released a new seven of remarkably melodic and unexpectedly lush crust.

Tickets are on sale now.

Listen to a couple tracks from 1992’s Ritual Of Infinity below…