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7.5
- Band:
Mephitic Corpsse - Duration: 00:25:00
- Available since: 01/02/2025
- Label:
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Extremely Rotten Productions
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With “Sichness Attracts Sickness”, the Mephitic Corpsi dive without hesitation in the most filthy Pantan of the Death-Grind, packaging a debut which, as expected, sounds like a pour of mud and bowels. After two promising demos and a series of live dates that also saw them limestone important stages, including that of the UNEARTHED MORE COPENHAgen Festival, the young US training reappears with a job that renews their devotion for certain often forgotten underground.
Once again, the style of the boys intelligently avoids the shortcuts offered by the celebration of the most famous and popular names of the genre – such as, for example, the first carcass – to explore instead even rough, dark and generally less beaten territories. In fact, the base of the sound returns to recall the muddy exploits of the Mexican disgorge, then intertwined skillfully with heavier solutions and death metal, attributable at times to the most syncopated rharters. This mix produces a sound experience that stands out for a subtle lucidity and for a songwriting that is never lost in unnecessary digressions.
The real strength of the album is the guitar work, capable of combining the usual riffs with riffs more Groovy, round and memorizable, winding in the ups and downs that give a pleasant dynamism to the short tracklist. It is in these details that the Mephitic Corpsse find their most persuasive voice: obviously there is no obsession with cleaning or precision, but it is still perceived an authentic desire to create something viscerally enthralling, with cards of spotted time And themes with an immediate impact. Despite the deliberately rough aesthetic, starting from an extremely essential production, creative details therefore manage to emerge, giving various flashes of inspiration that affect a genre often rigidly codified in its own tribute to the usual well -known.
Those who know and love the Death-Grind Underground contemporary vein will then notice a certain affiliation, even only at the level of attitude, with cavernous entities such as fetid or undergang, but the compactness of the pieces, starting from their duration contained, betrays a purely attitude Grindcore who prefers to hit hard and run away rather than drag the listener into marathons who would be not very functional in this context.
Of course, do not expect an innovative or truly personal album in any aspect: this is not the band's goal. Instead, we are in the presence of a job that lives on pure and instinctive energy, a tribute to the more zotic side of the Death-Grind, with more than a touch of care and awareness in songwriting. A work that, on balance, affects, drags and amuses, confirming the mephitic corpses as lovers passionate about this musical trend. A declaration of intent that bodes well for the future of the group.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM