Between Adam Wright’s deep blather-n-blort and Dashiell Sublett’s jigsaw locomotion sparks certain death. The rhythm section’s Southern lag lends first decimation “Impending Tomb” a woozy subterfuge stampeded by a NWOBHM inevitability that bears replay and insures Burial Wraith’s future. “Inverted Casket” pummels and double-times, cymbal shrapnel flying, while its EP bookend “Kneel to the Witches of the Scroll” revisits the speed prog of Eighties thrash with whiplash wrath.

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This article appears in August 18 • 2017.

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San Francisco native Raoul Hernandez crossed the border into Texas on July 2, 1992, and began writing about music for the Chronicle that fall, debuting with an album review of Keith Richards’ Main Offender. By virtue of local show previews – first “Recommendeds,” now calendar picks – his writing’s appeared in almost every issue since 1993.