The band's sophomore release crystalizes Atomic Witch’s unique frenzied vision and picks up where the debut LP Crypt of Sleepless Malice left off, refining their sound while managing to expand its palette into new territory. Hypnotic, swirling cacophonies give way to speed metal fury; lumbering riffs are accented by industrial textures. Nothing is off limits, yet everything follows a continuous rotten thread, like a phantom being torn through a hallucinogenic nightmare. With Death Etiquette, the grotesque visuals are more intense, the trips are harsher, and the ghouls are so reviling it’s impossible to look away. Lessons have been learned, rituals carved endlessly into skin and all of these swirling delusions have coalesced into a singular vision - a vision of the etiquette of death itself.
