Blood Offerings

Necrot’s second album is a blissful nightmare come true for death metal diehards who prefer the raw and pummeling over the precise and technical. The band’s slow, low-end assault veers between shuddering songs that threaten to devolve into muddy formlessness (“Layers of Darkness”) and deliriously dense blast-beat workouts splattered with guttural vocals (“Shadows and Light”). As with their debut, buzzsaw riffs and moshpit beats abound, threading through “The Blade” and cementing their sweaty, chaotic edge.