LIQUID FLESH – Vestiges Abrutissants

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6.5

• Bands:
  LIQUID FLESH
• Duration: 00:20:17
• Available from: 12/13/2024

The French Liquid Flesh are back shortly – and also a bit surprisingly – having passed through these parts for a review just over a year ago with their third interesting “Dolores” (released by our local Time To Kill).
However, let's not talk about a new album: “Vestiges Abrutissants” is in fact a celebratory EP for the tenth anniversary of its release, self-produced by the band, digitally and in a limited physical edition, as is right after all for a product of this type – in somehow 'accessory' in a market overflowing with material.
The touch of Liquid Flesh, however, is immediately noticeable, this time too, with a cover where the themes of dissolution and liquefaction emerge, once again citing the world of horror movies, in a visual combination that brings to mind “Videodrome” and “Poltergeist” .
Musically speaking, we are faced with twenty minutes of music with three pieces re-played and re-recorded from the first album, now dated 2016, a reprise of a song published in a compilation during Covid and a cover by Entombed, obviously translated into French. In short, our people try once again to give a personal touch to what they do – and this must be recognized.
It is also clear that in “Vestiges Abrutissants” there is a certain love for old-school death metal which, in this specific case, goes back even further in time, given that the stylistic coordinates of the debut were decidedly more classic and less groovy of the recent “Dolores”. We are therefore faced with three traditional compositions – even a bit mannered, to be honest – of death metal from the late 1980s that are not excessively technical, in the style of Massacre, Master, Cancer and Pungent Stench.
If originality isn't so typical, the sound quality is still good and in terms of sound it's pleasant to see how the French manage not to sound too old-fashioned but neither to exaggerate with bombastic solutions that are inadequate for what they do. The Entombed cover is also very nice, transformed into a “L'Oeil Du Maitre”, of which we leave you to discover what the original could be.
Overall we are talking about a product that is certainly not fundamental which, in its physical version, has the aggravating circumstance of containing 'only' twenty minutes of music in a market where vinyl EPs have now disappeared (and those on CD could take over same ending). If, however, we think of it in a digital dimension, it has its own 'absolute' value aided by the correct idea of ​​stopping at self-production aimed at being the prerogative of the fans first and foremost.
In case you don't belong to the category and don't even know the group, at this point we recommend giving it a little listen to the latest “Dolores” together with this EP while you're at it: maybe you'll discover something that had escaped you until now.