Rat King - Washington heavies new EP out December 10th

Rat King (Washington state, USA) throughout the years has been making changes as they go along. Their sound generally revolves around heaviness, but there is no set genre for all their recordings. Their 2014 EP is an instrumental work with a doom, kind of proggy style of grooving. That was 2014. Things keep changing. Rat King 2021 sees the band continuing from they left off with their 2020 album, which is to say old-school brutality. This four-song EP is headbanging, non-technical, non-proggy extreme metal with a foundation in death metal, with very little melody. Maybe one can say that some grooving takes place. So does some blasting. It is big-riff songs with a certain simplicity of efficiency to make the impact felt on a first listen.

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