Cancer Spreading The Church of Failures EP

An Italian stench unit that has been reeking up punk consistently since 2007. The bastard child of AMEBIX and BOLT THROWER, this veteran band has a steady hand on the pulse of the classic mixture that creates the stinkiest of stenches. Primitively grueling, The Church of Failures paints a bloodied picture of a world without hope in which the light is slowly fading. Not that dissimilar from earlier works, the genre isn’t one to strive for innovation but rather dwells in atmosphere and feeling. Opener “Absence of Empathy” sounds like if Justin Broadrick played guitar for DEVIATED INSTINCT instead of NAPALM DEATH. Follow-up “Idiosyncratic Reaction” goes full mid-tempo death metal mode, like an ash-covered WINTER. There is a range in which they function, but by this point in their career, CANCER SPREADING is leaning more towards death metal, and the crust is felt more in the atmosphere and lyrical content than in the techniques employed, which makes this EP a misanthropic monolith for the dark times ahead.

• Reviewer João Seixas
• Label Primitive Future
• Issue MRR #515 • April 2026