2011 sophomore release from the Irish Extreme Metal act, one of the most anticipated Metal releases of the year. With Mammal, the band delivers their bleakest, most punishing work to date: a milestone of post-Black Metal that towers over all others in the genre. Comprised of four extended, time-stretching tracks, Mammal is a forward-thinking exploration of new realms in experimental and ambient music.

2011 sophomore release from the Irish Extreme Metal act, one of the most anticipated Metal releases of the year. With Mammal, the band delivers their bleakest, most punishing work to date: a milestone of post-Black Metal that towers over all others in the genre. Comprised of four extended, time-stretching tracks, Mammal is a forward-thinking exploration of new realms in experimental and ambient music.

Having gained quite a reputation from their epic debut EP Sol and their recent UK tour with Norwegian legends Mayhem, Altar of Plagues have morphed their layered sound into an apocalyptic sonic maelstrom on White Tomb. The two-track album takes the band's Black Metal foundations and builds on them an expansive, ambient, experimental work--a bleak vision of desolate and abandoned urban wastelands. If bands like Wolves In The Throne Room conjure scenes of epic nature, massive cascading waterfalls, and engulfing forests, Altar of Plagues create stark images of crumbling skyscrapers, dying and rotten urban structures, empty highways, and desolate oceans.