Unholy HELL YES — this has been a sick year from Crossover/Hardcore! Skourge’s new album Torrential Torment only proves that 666%. Real talk, there is not one whack or weak moment on this LP. Every tune has the power of a bulldozer and the depth of the deepest cave. I can’t get over the way this record was mixed because it has this seething and gruesome energy to it that leaves me speechless. It’s so evident Torrential Torment was created by humans that have lived experience when it comes to Crossover/Hardcore! “Blood-Drenched Sun” screams torment while at the same time is full of gnarly riffs! Make sure to peep (y’all better blast the full album) their song “Flagellation” because it’s more brutal than police brutality and rocks HARD AF. Their song “Hallucinator” almost decimated me because it’s that fucking RAW and “Meditation” just punched me in my gut! Torrential Torment is out now on Lockin’ Out Records and I know for a fact that this is one of the raddest records of 2023. In 2019, our whole family got to see them live and they fucking killed it!
