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Epistasis: U&U Jam?

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For his series Unsigned And Unholy, MS superstud Vince Neilstein deserves a Nobel Prize for public service. In U&U, he scours the minor leagues for All-Stars of tomorrow, both for your sake (you’re first to discover new superjams like a smart guy) and maybe for theirs (numerous U&U alums end up with record deals). But there’s a third facet to its utility: When a U&U band departs “promising” for “full-fledged awesome,” MS staff gets to dispense a big, loud We-Told-You-So.

So today we proudly puff up our chests and nod smugly about avant-black weirdos Epistasis, who, even by their appearance in U&U in August 2012, had undergone “a few aesthetic shifts” across “three different line-ups,” and employed “processed trumpet” and “bassoon run through an amp” to stuff the margins of scronky, misshapen black metal to bursting. And as hinted above, in 2014 listeners will do more than enjoy an academic appreciation for boundary-pushing screamers, but fall in real brain-and-backbone love; new EP Light Through Dead Glass (out now) presents a suite of jams less fretful and uncooperative, more cocky and cohesive, and unafraid of death metal riffs. (One seems to arrive directly from Cradle Of Filth’s “Cthulu Dawn.”) Looking to fill the hole left by Cobalt in 27 minutes? Stream the whole EP below!

Epistasis’ Light Through Dead Glass came out Tuesday via Crucial Blast. Get it here.

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