Savage have put out Rancorous Trails, the second song from Malignant Reveries, which Hammerheart Records release on 27 November.
The band are from Groningen and the record they have made sounds like it was buried in Stockholm and dug up this year. Their own list of reference points runs Nihilist, Master, Repulsion, Carcass, Autopsy and Dismember, and the only unexpected name on it is Death Breath, which is what two members of Entombed called themselves in 2006.
Thirteen tracks, and the last one is a cover of Spawn Of Azathoth by Grotesque, the short lived Gothenburg band that turned into At the Gates. Choosing that song rather than a Dismember one says which half of Sweden they are listening to.
It is their first album. Before it there was a demo in 2023 and the Septic Tomb EP earlier this year, both on the same label, so Hammerheart have been building this one for a while.
Compact disc, vinyl and digital all arrive on the same day.