DETAILED NOTES ON DEATH METAL MUSIC

Listen to Genocide Pact’s 2018 launch get Of Torment, so you’ll be unsurprised to find they hail from Washington, D.C. The four-piece’s music is certainly death metal, but there’s a component to the breakdowns and charges therein that smacks of previous-faculty hardcore. The result is music that, although brimming with growling and “pig-