Howls of Ebb / Khthoniik Cerviiks Split LP

Nuclear War Now! and Iron Bonehead Productions jointly present this befitting split LP from Howls of Ebb and Khthoniik Cerviiks, two of the most promising and unorthodox death/black metal bands of today.  Although each band boasts its own distinct style, the combination is appropriate in that it perfectly represents two of the evolutionary offshoots that have recently begun to carry the genre in new directions.  Howls of Ebb (HoB) first established its brand of “limbonic metal” with its debut full-length, “Vigils of the 3rd Eye,” and has further refined it with a subsequent EP and most recently with its second album, “Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows.”  The three tracks that comprise HoB’s side of this split, dubbed “With Gangrene Edges,” pick up where the band’s previous recording left off.  Once again, HoB weaves a disorienting web of atonal riffs that lurch forward and backward at the same time, appearing to progressively pull each song apart at its seams before resolving into an