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.

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This article appears in August 19 • 2016.

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Michael Toland started writing about music in 1988 on the Gulf Coast, moved to Austin in early 1991, and has inflicted bylines upon the corporeal and digital pages of Pop Culture Press, The Big Takeover, Blurt, Amplifier, Austin.citysearch, the Austin American Statesman, Goldmine, Sleazegrinder, Rock & Roll Globe, High Bias, FHT Music Notes, and, since 2011, The Austin Chronicle.