Bloom of the Abnormal Flesh

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• Band:
  Morbific
• Duration: 00:42:00
• Available from: 21/04/2025
• Label:

• Me Saco an ojo records

• Memento Mori

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There is a perverse charm in the horror that is repeated, in the marching that regenerates instead of dissolving. “Bloom of the Abnormal Flesh”, the third album of the Morbifics, is the testimony of how certain particularly slimy and mischievous Death-Grind can still evolve a little, without obviously losing little or anything of its primitive urgency.
The young Finnish group returns with what is objectively his best album produced, offering us a handful of compositions that deepen the style exposed in previous publications, adding more audio definition and even more attentive development at the level of time changes and register, with varied pieces in which the trio experiences with melodies and found unusual, confirming its spiritual proximity to historical formations of the Finnish Underground as Xysma and misfortune.
If the previous “Sirmm Beyond the Mortal Realm” was in all respects a dip in an auditory cloaca, especially because of an essential production, “Bloom of the Abnormal Flesh”, is the monster that emerges from those black waters, more lucid and threatening than ever. The sound rendering differs a little from abrasive saturations to the bitter end of the past, finding a balance that enhances every layer of sound without naturally cleaning its all -life essence. Again, you can breathe fully lungs the eighties of the late eighties and that of the worst underground of the early nineties, but with a compositional awareness that avoids the most flat re -proposal of the past. The result is a record that pulsates with a sick vitality, wrapped in a purple atmosphere that permeates every note.
To the third full-length (not to mention all the other short-lived exits), the band shows an increasing mastery of its formula: the compositions, while remaining anchored to a raw and deformed aesthetic, are structured with attention to detail, with sections that alternate without forcing, creating an organic narrative flow. The most immediate songs fit punctually with the most articulated ones, in a balance that makes the disc sliding and engaging, without ever losing the sense of suffocating oppression. There are also moments of authentic delirium, where riffing is twisted in surreal spirals, while the melodies – segmes, obviously – dig even deeper into the slimy and decadent substrate which is now the trademark of the band.
Each trace exudes that Death-Grind fury that made their models big, but the trio knows in short when slowing down and playing with the dynamics, avoiding the risk of flattening listening to a simple outburst. Episodes such as “Menagerie of Grotesque Trophies” or Title-Track are clear examples of this ability to manage the contrasts, in their being ridden between viscous grooves and slacked accelerations, where the melody insinuates itself precisely into the general rot, giving the plots an unexpected depth.
In summary, “Bloom of the Abnormal Flesh” marks further maturation for the measles, refining their writing and strengthening their impact. The album advances compact and without uncertainties, confirming a well -defined identity and increasing safety in one's own language. Far from being a simple tribute to the giants of the past, the work demonstrates a synthesis and reworking capacity that makes it immediately solid and engaging, perfectly in line with the deviated poetics of the Finnic Band.

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