Ah, the death metal rehearsal tape. It's the manifestation of old school death metal at it's purest, most bestial level. Back in the early '90s, death metal rehearsal tapes were commonly sold and traded in the extreme metal underground, and whenever I would order stuff from Ax/ction, Fudgeworthy, and Wild Rags I can remember getting packages filled with shitty black and white flyers from bands hawking their rehearsal tapes for three or four bucks , and there were a thousand little tape distros that would carry death metal demos and rehearsal tapes alongside fucked up stuff like Havohej and Pile Of Eggs tapes and Japanese noise cassettes. You don't see DM tapes like that around much anymore, which is why there is a little bit of nostlagia involved with this warty cassette from the Boston deathdoom band Blessed Offal. The tape has five tracks of ultra crushing primitive death metal with songs like "Agony of Cremation", "Pharmakanetic Subjugation", "Bottomless Grave", "Beneath The Sewer", and "Seasons in Sepulchral Depths", raging sludgy death that goes from wall-of-vomit detuned blasting to super-slow, doomy . The sound is comparable to a cross between dISEMBOWELMENT and Incantation, but because of the low-fi live recording, it's heard through a curtain of muddy low-end and gristle that smears the blasting/crawling death into a blizzard of demonic murk...pretty brutal! The tape comes with a glossy sleeve, and it was released by the weirdo occult metal label Starlight Temple Society.