Whenever I see the cover art of an album for a metal band and there’s impaled skulls, blood, and a logo I can’t read, I know I’m getting ready to get obliterated. If I’m at the record store, I instantly flip it to the spine of the album to see the band’s name so I can check them out on streaming to see what they sound like. I love discovering underground bands that way. I fell in love with death metal back in the 90s with bands like Cannibal Corpse, Suffocation, and Ripping Corpse. This is why I love discovering new music – finding underground gems and sharing them with people.
From the sewers of Montreal, Canada comes Scorching Tomb. They dropped a demo in 2019 and followed up with their self-released EP, Rotting Away, in 2022. After a split with Primal Horde in 2023, the band laid dormant waiting for the next time to open the tomb and unleash their brand of death metal.
The band is back and partnered with Time To Kill Records to offer up an 8-track album titled ”Ossuary” that is set to release on October 24th, 2025. Clocking in around a half an hour, the band slams you into the slab with no mercy, no polish, only the raw grinding of death metal fused with the savagery of hardcore. These tracks capture their feral fusion of raw death metal and metallic hardcore at its most hostile. It’s relentless, unflinching, and built to leave you breathless.
The songs have some filthy riffs, suffocating grooves, and relentless aggression. To understand the destruction this band wants to impart on this world, just look at the first single they dropped from the album. “Skullcrush” rips you to pieces and features Devin Swank from Sanguisugabogg. Scorching Tomb understands what works to make a name for themselves in the death metal scene – balance. They know how to push and pull. They mix mosh parts, crushing breakdowns, plus those moments when they let the guitars breathe just long enough for the tension to sink in.
While the band doesn’t reinvent death metal, they rekindle is feral heart. ”Ossuary" doesn’t ask you for permission to demolish you. It forces you to feel the weight of every collapse and cracking of each one of your bones. Fans of Skinless, Internal Bleeding, and Xibalba need to take note.
