Album Review: Necrot – “Lifeless Birth”

Necrot - Lifeless Birth

We’ve talked before about albums that just weren’t meant to happen and yet, thankfully, they do.  Lifeless Birth is one of those albums.  The sheer amount of willpower and grit it took to get this album into your hands is astounding, and lesser bands would have crumbled under the weight of the task. Necrot, however, are no lesser band, and while it seems ironic that just as they approached the zenith of their career, they become hit with blow after blow from the gods above, they have definitely come back stronger and more brazen than ever.

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The Nine Circles Audio Thing: Necrot’s Luca Indrio on their upcoming album “Mortal,” the importance of hard work, the impact of their debut “Blood Offerings,” Luca’s early days, the Metal vs Racism platform and so much more!

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Necrot – photo courtesy of Chris Johnston

Bay Area’s Necrot have, in short order, become a household name for those of us that love our death metal sinewy and with tons of blood and guts yet keeping intact the basic tenets that death metal was built upon. Their first full length Blood Offerings saw the band explode with tons of positive coverage and electrifying live shows to back it up. And now with their second offering Mortal they build on this success with an even gnarlier sound that will appeal to not only death metal fans but fans of all metal far and wide. There’s no escaping the hype train for these guys but it is well deserved, this is a band that is building their future by staying true to themselves and working as hard as they can to share true death metal with the masses. It’s vicious, pummeling ecstacy and truly lightning in a bottle as bassist and vocalist Luca Indrio will explain immediately below.
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