Black metal band Pestilential Shadows emerged from the cemetery crypts of New South Wales, Australia, in 2003, initiating a belligerent campaign to terrify humanity with images of death, destruction, plague, and genocide -- all via the gift of music! In all seriousness, the leather-and-studs-bound, corpse-painted musicians quickly set about putting their songs where their bloodied fangs were, establishing an inexorable, intentionally lo-fi and depressive style via 2003's Putrify EP, and follow-up albums, Embrace After Death (2005) and Cursed (2006). Throughout this time, bandm...