Corpsing – Viewing the Invisible

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• Band:
  Corps
• Duration: 00:18:49
• Available since: 07/02/2025

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We had left the London Corpsing struggling with their mix of Death Metal 'Made in Florida' and Svisate Tech/Prog from the strong references to the last Gorguts and ulcerates, in their last full-length, released in 2020 and entitled “Civilization Under Nefarious Tyrants” ; We find them more or less unchanged, at least from a stylistic point of view, in this new EP, “Viewing the Invisible”, again published independently.
Even the Black Metal tears, echoing the work of the famous Akercocke fellow citizens, are still well present in the sound fabric of ours (symptomatic, in this sense, the presence of Jason Mendonça proper to the Akercocke as a guest on the guitar in the opening song “Be the Pack “, As well as that of Luc Lemay of the Gorguts under the voice in the song” Soul Paralysis “). Instead, what has changed is the line-up: to complete the formation, led as always by the Italian axes formed by the brothers Giuseppe and Michele Cuispoto, we find Leviathan this time on the voice, James Cormack on bass and Subash Rana on drums .
After an album with strongly political conceptual content such as the aforementioned “Civilization Under Nefarious Tyrants”, the Corpsing return to the market with an EP more focused on philosophical and introspective themes, even without sacrificing the caustic approach that has always characterized them: “Viewing the Invisible ”is in fact a journey into the inner malaise hidden behind the daily mask, concretized in the form of asphyxiating and angular death metal.
The “Be the Pack” Open is an explanatory of the band's current intentions, with its relentless and brutal shot, mindful of the lesson of the best soft angels, suffocation and, above all, immolation, innervated by more modern solutions, close to the tech- Death Metal as for a certain way of understanding the djent and the Avant-Garde (especially in the psalmer use of the choirs and the second voices, as regards the latter stylistic aspect).
The experience gained by the Curatistote brothers in more than twenty years of militancy in the scene is heard all: this song, as well as the subsequent “A Heart Hurts, A Heart Works”, “Soul Paralysis” and “View the Invisible”, put On display a mastery of both the writing and the bright browzing, where nothing is left to chance and every detail contributes to the enhancement of each individual composition. The solos are also very interesting, echoing on more than one occasion in the hints of Fredrik Thordendal and his Meshuggah.
The only aspect that could be difficult for Deathster not grown to bread and dissonances could be precisely this: the fact that all portions called to characterize the various songs are, by their nature, deviated and unreliable – and therefore passable to look very little characterizing, per ears accustomed to other types of engraved.
Having said that, it is also good to underline how the extreme compactness of the songs proposed here, as well as the evident love of the Corpsing against the Old-Scool Death Metal, especially in the Riffing phase, can allow the Italian-Lontinese band to breach the Auricular pavilions both of the more traditionalist fans and those in love with the most transversal and modern drifts of the genre, with both factions that can find to enjoy among the furrows of these four new songs.
The palm of the best composition, for the writer, goes to the articulated and alienating “View the Invisible”, but in this EP there is really a lot, good, meat on the fire. We hope that an equally valid full-length will be followed by this work.