Chile’s INVOCATION SPELLS has tapped into their most cavernous, darkest spaces to pull an absolutely scathing album from its depths. Today we’re very excited to tear your world open with the addictive, punishing riffs of their upcoming Spread Cruelty in the Abyss LP. From the second I press play, I’m head-banging nonstop

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