Album Review: Devouring Famine - A Man Whispering with the Dead
Album Review Artist: Devouring Famine A Man Whispering with the Dead Release Date: November, 13, 2025 Score 8/10 Review by Rick Eaglestone California's Devouring Famine have been steadily carving out their own putrid corner of the underground black metal scene, and with A Man Whispering with the Dead , they've delivered something genuinely unsettling. From the moment opener "Imploding into the Black Hole" crawls from the speakers, it's abundantly clear that Devouring Famine aren't interested in your comfort. The riffing here is dissonant, angular, and deliberately uncomfortable – it feels like being trapped in a conversation with something that shouldn't be speaking at all. The production sits in that sweet spot where everything is audible but nothing is clean, giving the whole affair a suffocating, claustrophobic quality that perfectly serves the material. The vocals throughout are absolutely venomous. Rather than relying on the standard black metal shr...
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