Emerging from the underbelly of the Australian extreme music scene in 2019, with members from Eora/Sydney and Naarm/Melbourne, Burial Pit commands attention with an unrelenting brand of sonic devastation. Their self described Violent Sludge assaults the senses, merging glacial heaviness with razor wire dissonance, refusing complacency at every turn.

Their debut LP Subhuman Scum drew praise globally for its merciless approach, with NoCleanSinging declaring “The thing is, no matter how nasty, how gnarly, how unrelentingly crushing you’re expecting this record to be… chances are you’re still not going to be ready once the brutal, bowel-rupturing riffs and savage, strychnine-soaked vocals of “Disgrace” kick in…” and HEAVYMag singling out the record as a “spectacular display of songwriting, hatred and well-focused aggression.”

Following 2023’s crushing single, Varment, Burial Pit return in 2025 with Skin Eater, a standalone track born from the devastation of Australia’s recent bushfires and the hollow response that followed. The song channels grief, fury and disbelief into an avalanche of punishing riffs, despair, and blood curdling dissonant atmosphere.

Live, Burial Pit is less performance and more trial by ordeal. Their shows are crushing rituals, a baptism in noise, a shared catharsis. As Hysteria Mag put it “Like a near-dead torture victim digging their way out from a shallow grave they were dumped in, each of Burial Pit’s songs raise themselves to the surface with an agony of slowness, excruciating and crushing riffs reverberating in final despair”

Though destructive, their approach is resolutely DIY. The band writes, records, produces, and mixes autonomously, allowing no dilution of vision. Every detail is an extension of the message.

Currently, Burial Pit are immersed in the studio, forging their highly anticipated second full length LP slated for a 2026 release.