Friday 17 August 2007

Autopsy -Severed Survival (1989)

Watery, gore-infested and rusty death metal as such, but with a gloomier side from a real cult band, one of my fave's within the genre who have provided enough sickness and grime over the years to claim the 'gore metal' genre as their own.
At times Autopsy sound like they've recorded their records in a bathtub, a clanking, hollow sound from some echoing catacomb where the skins are pounded with bones and rotten flesh is chewed and spat out from zombiefied jaws. Overall, the menace is here as well as the splatter factor, this lacks the corny imagery of say Cannibal Corpse and remains somehow nastier despite its less than descriptive lyrical stance, but what you do get is a no-thrills form of death grind will have the worms feasting for days. Putrid.

See also Abscess and The Ravenous for similar vermin.

8/10

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