Turkey has no shortage of badass metal bands, but Molested Divinity stand out. Formed in the capital city of Ankara in 2016, the trio specialize in raw, brutal death metal that churns like the pitch-black smoke of a burning oil spill. The hallmarks of the genre are all in force—guttural growls, gnashing down-tuned riffs, squealing pinch harmonics, typewriter kick drum, tin-can snare—but the band also manage to surprise you with their ambitious arrangements and musical chops without once diverging from the filth at the core of their sound. On 2020’s Unearthing the Void , Molested Divinity fuse brutal and slam metal in a delightfully grimy, grinding, unrelenting onslaught. Their third and most recent album, 2023’s The Primordial, takes aim at the dangers of organized religion and raises

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