I spent years wondering when Dragged Into Sunlight would release anything after Negative Volume. For a time, it seemed to me that the band had gone dormant, apart from live performances, but I never stopped wondering what would come next and when that day would come. My fondness for the original 2006 Terminal Aggressor demo has been noted elsewhere on this site. I loved it. To me it was the epitome of desperate, spiteful noise encrusted about a moldering framework of the bleakest, most miserable black metal, like a tidal wave of unadulterated sonic rage, piped directly into my ears and polluting every depth of my being, covering every shore with its bile.
On January 10, 2020 I stopped wondering what was next. Turns out, it was better than I’d hoped for, as instead of a follow-up to their acclaimed album “Hatred for Mankind”, DIS went a step further and released Terminal Aggressor II.
Terminal Aggressor II is no less vitriolic than its predecessor and is nothing short of a vomitous auditory assault, unrelenting, battering, and unfathomably dark; an exploration of the aphotic zone of the human consciousness and the vile things spawned from those lightless places inside of us all. TAII is eerie, abrading noise shackled around a splintered scaffold of sludgy, primitive blackened death: not unlike its previous iteration, but different enough to stand of its own foul merits. This was a pristine follow-up to the baleful misery of the original. Support the band in all of their endeavors, and listen to Terminal Aggressor II below, but note that the band will likely receive none of the proceeds for this album, as Prosthetic Records dicked them quite badly in their record deal.
Towers of Rust 