Remember Teen Cthulhu? I sure do. Aside from having one of the best band names ever, their only album, Ride The Blade, was an awesome,

mutant mixture of DIY sympho-blackness a la early Cradle Of Filth and the brutal buzzsaw powerviolence of Infest, and it was one of the best fucking albums

to come out of the "extreme hardcore" scene of the past decade. When are we going to see a discography of that stuff, guys? Seriously? Well, while I grind my

teeth hoping that the Teen Cthulhu back catalog will one day make it's way into my mitts, at least I can incur some serious whiplash with Book Of Black

Earth's The Feast. Formed out of the ashes of Teen Cthulhu in 2003, this Seattle warcrust machine follows up their split album with Fall Of The

Bastards with this debut full length. And this is seriously heavy shit, a blackened death metal assault with loads of boiling double bass drumming, Nordic

black metal moves, crusty grindcore, epic keyboards, TJ Cowgill's awesomely deep n' gutteral vocals, monstrous blackened doom, even a grinding industrial

dirge in "Let Us Worship The Dead". But really melodic too - they actually kind of remind me of the old Crucial Blast band All Is Suffering with their

seamless fusion of black metal, grindcore, and epic doom. Killer artwork too, and the disc comes in a O-card enclosed case. Highly recommended!