Sarabante
Poisonous Legacy (Southern Lord)
Reviewed by Michael Toland, Fri., Aug. 19, 2016
Political and social turmoil nourish angry bands. Between the austerity measures levied on an unwilling populace and the riots rising out of that discontent, Greek quintet Sarabante chews on plenty of foul gristle on second album Poisonous Legacy. Their metallic hardcore seethes with righteous rage on freight-train torpedoes "Ruination" and "A Day With No Sun to Rise." By contrast, "Mneme's Amaurosis" and "Black Thorns" defy Sarabante's three-minutes-or-less rule, stretching out with doses of blackened doom and thrashing death to lethal effect.