Mastiff

Mangata Music proudly presents Mastiff on their UK tour.

A miserable band from a miserable town. MASTIFF hail from a tiny port city called Kingston upon Hull, founded by 12th-century monks, and bombed to the brink of obliteration during World War II. Over the years, spiraling social depravity, poor education, and crushing economic collapse pummeled the English town, rendering it dreary and inhospitable. Hull is the end of the road for many, literally and figuratively, as its geographical location ensures that it’s not quite on the way to anywhere. It’s a specific type of human-made hell in which some folks seem destined to die without ever having left.

Crafted in a generous five days at No Studio with producer Joe Clayton (Pijn, Wren, Leeched), Leave Me the Ashes of the Earth is a misanthropic masterpiece. The sorrow-filled souls of every miserable cretin it reaches will stir in basements, hovels, pubs, and darkened alleyways. Conceived during a pandemic-enforced longest stretch between MASTIFF records, Leave Me the Ashes of the Earth paints on the band’s familiar canvass, but with a bigger palette. It’s not far from the story of the seminal Napalm Death, whose journey across extreme subgenres produced a blistering catalog.

MASTIFF put their open-wound sound and spirit on display at shows with Crowbar, Biohazard, Conjurer, Cult Leader, and Iron Monkey, among others. They’ve proved adept and capable at delivering devastating performances with a diverse cross-section of heavy acts and their respective audiences