Osculant Brutality

Osculant Brutality is an international groove metal collaboration project consisting of writer Brian Hoskins, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Eric Castiglia, and various guest performers. They released their 2nd album - LESSONS FROM THE DEATH RATTLE OF A FAILED SPECIES - on May 3rd, 2024.

LESSONS FROM THE DEATH RATTLE OF A FAILED SPECIES (2024)
The concept album takes place sometime in the far future - long after humanity has destroyed itself - and another race of beings uses the desolated Earth as a classroom of sorts to teach its own descendants what not to do in order to avoid humanity's fate.

THE IDES (2022)
A metal retelling of William Shakespeare's tragic play, JULIUS CAESAR. As beautiful as it is brutal, JULIUS CAESAR tells a story of greed, envy, betrayal, murder, and a lust for power that destroys all consumed by it. Perfect subject matter for a metal album!