Stalagmite Angels CD

Something's got into Judiciary between 2023's Flesh + Blood and this one, and it isn't a gentle development. Stalagmite Angels is five songs on Closed Casket Activities, this Texas band grinding death metal into '90s hardcore and calling the EP a harder, more compressed reset after the full-length. Think of it less like a sequel and more like the band trimmed the whole thing down to its angriest paragraph. Lead single "Wall of Skulls" sets the tone before the rest of the EP catches up to it.