Debut full-length from Scourge Lair, succinctly and effectively entitled "Calamities." Scourge Lair emerged from the hallowed metal grounds of Tampere, Finland in 2014. By 2017, the band had recorded and released its first demo, "Abominable Entities," on digital and limited cassette formats. Approximately two years later, its second demo, "One Hundred Eyes One Hundred Arms," was released in the same inauspicious manner as its predecessor. Like its preceding demos, "Calamities" is born as a composite of the band's primary influences, which perhaps most notably include the likes of Demoncy, Autopsy, Bathory, Darkthrone, and Goatlord. However, as one would hope from a first album, "Calamities" inherits the formula of songwriting and musicianship established on the demos and elevates it to another plane. Tempos tend to inhabit the higher end of the spectrum, and songs are not content to be constrained below the five-minute threshold. Instead, they often opt to push several minutes beyond, yet they do so without ever leaving a moment to dull the listener's attention.