One thing can be said about Creeping Death: they’re committed to their name. The Texan death metal crew may have adopted with a more searing, thrash-focused sound early on with the output on 2018’s Specter Of War. But on the material from their upcoming new album Wretched Illusions, the band are exploring a moldier, more clammy-to-the-touch sound that oozes and lumbers as much as it rips. It’s this sort of commitment to sonic devolution that earned them their spot opening for High On Fire and Power Trip later this year. The video for the band’s latest track, Ripping Through Flesh, is a visual illustration of that fungal growth. The video definitely has a narrative of bloodlust and escape that runs throughout it, complete with a machete-wielding psychopath. But ...