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Review: Returning with their heftiest and most malevolent work to date, Desolation's Flower marks the fourth full-length from the Oakland based queer blackened screamo-sludge two-piece Ragana. Their first effort upon signing with extreme purveyors of underground ugliness The Flenser (home to caustic noise-rock titans Chat Pile and ecstatic black metal newcomers Agriculture), the LP serves as a creative rebirth following their longest gap between projects yet, with their preceding third LP You Take Nothing arriving back in 2017. Continuing their grim excavation into hideous sonic malaise, yet with an expanded palette of grooving doom, frenetic screamo-violence and heaving sludge metal ripped right from the banks of the bayou, this is a thick, dense, murky gaze into a void that spits back eternal blackness.

Review: Oakland queer blackened sludge duo Ragana make their decrepit return on the harrowing fourth full-length Desolation's Flower. Their first project since signing to acclaimed underground extreme label The Flenser (Chat Pile, Agriculture, Mamaleek), the work continues the stoic brutality of 2017's You Take Nothing, but embraces more emotive forms of catharsis, combining hefty sludge metal riffs with frenetic screamo chaos and black metal atmospherics. Hideous, despondent, and cavernous yet undeniably groovy all mayhem considered.