MORGUE BREATH – Plaga Sin Rostro

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7.5

• Bands:
  MORGUE BREATH
• Duration: 00:26:15
• Available from: 11/20/2024
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• Behind The Mountain

A ruthless fresco of the contemporary world and of the new Middle Ages that we are experiencing, “Plaga sin rostro” is at the same time a sort of invocation, of incitement to make a clean sweep with an extreme gesture, with a tracklist that does everything to bring out a sense of exasperation that inevitably leads to a grim nihilism and a desire to detach from everything.
Two years after the equally effective debut album “Expectoraciones exequiales desde las profundidades fantamiasmá​ticas”, Morgue Breath return in great style, with an album that embodies the most authentic spirit of grindcore, demonstrating how much this genre can always have its great relevance if interpreted with the right experience and dedication. The Californian band is now a certainty in the underground scene and this new long-distance effort is undoubtedly its most successful and complete chapter in the album, starting with a production that is indeed raw, but which this time never suffocates the clarity of the songs.
The sound of the album is rough, as per tradition, but without ever descending into chaos as an end in itself. On this occasion, a precise desire to balance the aggressiveness of the blast-beats and the overall impact with a recording which, although clearly without frills, allows all the elements of the mix to emerge. The result is a sonic rendition with a marked urgency, which captures from the first moment and invites total immersion in the grim sound world of Morgue Breath.
For its part, even the so-called songwriting demonstrates even more clarity: you can feel the commitment in the construction of the very short pieces and in the creation of a tracklist that is certainly long as per tradition, but not too dispersive.
We are in the area of ​​that grindcore which is essential in its structures and overall durations, but decidedly metallic, therefore concrete and lucid in the changes of tempo, as well as particularly 'riffy'. In short, within each track you can hear riffs, a groove and themes that remain in your head, following the school of masters such as Excruciating Terror, filtered through the experience of slightly more recent bands such as Machetazo, Looking For An Answer or Death Toll 80K. Morgue Breath manage to take up this tradition and bring it to a new effective level, without shining in terms of technical evolution, but working well on the riffs and dynamics, despite their insistence, rightly, on a dimension of sonic radicalism from which it is difficult don't feel overwhelmed.
“Plaga sin rostro” therefore turns out to be a successful work precisely because it immediately brings out a correct balance between the various components of the sound, preventing blind fury or the most sustained speed from always prevailing. A record that not only consolidates the Los Angeles group's position in the underground scene, but which elevates them as an example of how a certain style can continue to conquer with all the elements in the right place.