Retributions for the Dead : Into the reflections of dismal depths

What we've today on "Retributions for the Dead" might be a little summary what I might left to rot from the past. Sometimes I'm just slipped or drowned with all great release that come out, and forgive me about that!

Tampa / Florida seem the best tomb to find deathmetall band. That also doesn't mean Tampa / Florida scene always produced a reeking-ugly, raw and putrid stuff every years, at least there are some bands that crawling from these places sometimes got my attentions. Beyond of that gory years, maybe there a couple of worthy bands may you should festering and reeking for if you need some crushing deathmetall, and here I brought to you, old rotting 'Tampa' deathmetall, VACUOUS DEPTHS!

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     Consumption  Distention 

              Domination

There was a member changes from VACUOUS DEPTHS since their started back then, it's a naturally rotting-decomposition process of band journey and with Austin  (Vocal / Guitars), Joey Harris (Drum) and Arturo Palomo (Bass) the band definitely will be rotting more after this.

"Demo 2017" was their first debut demo, and it's actually out in digital version through their band'tomb back in the day, and I've just found out that GoatThrone Records will release this debut demo by VACUOUS DEPTHS onto pro tape-cassette for the first time. (I think Aaron Comos did a good job here to releases this underrated stuff) 

This is a very heavy and crushing-chaotic of deathmetall demo. Lots of groove-heavy-rotting riffs that VACUOUS DEPTHS created on this demo and sometimes make me remember of Obituary "Slowly we rot" musical styles. I also think that this demo sounde(a)d better from your expectation that you couldn't easily pass it off. The production of the demo, incredibly insane and have good touch on the final master by Patrick Brady! and it's more disgusting with Austin's voices on its. I love this kind of sing styles : it’s totally ugly, it’s disgusting and totally no filter till end of the song. Ugh!

Totally ugly front arts!  

I think the first impression totally the main factor (sometimes not actually) when you play a certain stuff, is how it's sounde(a)d on the first tracks. The opening tracks from the demo, "Sodomized" totally throw me rotting in deep of bottomless pit of grave immediately! Also tracks like "Black Anvil" and the following track “Graunt Reflections” both show incredibly heavy combinations of slow to mid paced parts that often flow in severed up tempo of classick styles of deathmetall. The guitars distortion / tones is so heavy fvcking brutal and there are several tempo or beat changes on the middle of the songs but to reeked this song decompositions ; it's totally crushing! Also the last tracks from the demo, "Human Compost" doesn’t drifted away from previous tracks, that rotting riffs and the open play parts from this song totally contribute in filling the flavor of stench of rotting decompositions on this demo. Loved how it's ende(a)d! 

A little write up for the cover arts of this demo, I personally loved how Stephen / Meatballgrinder illustrated the full cover and insert for this release, it's totally amazing work by him and definitely perfect disgust and filthy enough with VACUOUS DEPTHS music. 

To be honest, it's totally enjoyable demo to be listen with a slow and heavy crushing sound of old deathmetall with a max volume of dirtiness on it's and it's probably will rotting yours up! To final putrefying, another pure-disgusting, filthy extreme gnarly and rotten stuff that you should checks, VACUOUS DEPTHS have all this feel! 

Order yours copies of VACUOUS DEPTHS demo MC through GoatThrone Records or come out to the release show-party this upcoming September, 14th.

Critical Madness : PUTRID TORSO "Grave Desecrating Ritual" Full Length-Album / CD

The Ghouls Of The Graveyards

We near to end rotting completed in 2017, and a lot of sick stuff still haunted me down on this last few months and there's always something will blew my mind when it's comes to wrote about Old School Death Metal release. It's no matter if the band are doing something similar and just recycles the path again or even digging up yours old memories from the past as long it's quite interesting and worship the real tunes of death. And, I'm still saving my deadbrains for something more dark, ugly and filthy of Death Metal. The graveyard of dead that fulfilled with flesh-eaten rotting zombie!

Horror from the graveyards!!

PUTRID TORSO, definitely a braindead idea coming from Thomas Prasser. Thomas Prasser always wanting to delivered more rotten, sick and heavy stuff of old Death Metal. If we walked under the gloomy-unlights before, we can see Thomas Prasser work with several Black/Death band or project such like Goatthroat, Heretic Deathcult, Obscurys, Ruins of Unlight and Old Skull. And with PUTRID TORSO back from the long dead rotting hiatus right now, let's seek for more rotting old death stuff in the future from him. There are some familiar name beyond the creation of "Grave Desecrating Ritual" Album, some of them are Rogga Johansson from Paganizer etc that put his effort beyond the vocal section, Jan Psyander Withney / JDW-DEATH My Only Friends and Marc / Artwars mediadesign that make the CD booklet look horrifying and terrifying sick enough with killer arts and layout to my eyes and just look how thick the CD booklet make me smile how importance this first releases of PUTRID TORSO to them. 

PUTRID TORSO "Grave Desecrating Ritual" Album was for sure another most expected old school death stuff that coming out in 2017. With 8 tracks of ugly death tunes alongside the horror sample intro that may sounded someone digging the old graves and collected the dead body. It's quite interesting how the intro from this album slowly make my mood increased to death and need more dose of horror and thrill-suspense melo-touch. The first song is just killer, "The Ghoul Of Graveyards" with rotting and crunchy riff's barely open my head straightly with some old flavor from Swedish Death before "A Morbid Rising" show more aggression towards the song decompose and structure. The first-two tracks from this album show same death metal groovy-laden touch but in different kind of fast and slow atmosphere and also the guitar tones from Thomas Prasser that sounded fat and disgusting enough and Lille beyond the dead-beat drumming just show how excellent this two guy work together for this album. I've much enjoy the opening riff's in "A Crypt To Keep" and a screaming effort from Rogga in the early of "Towards The Cemetary" song, it's totally fvcking creepy-monster voices. As the CD still spinning off on my player, I spotted some interesting quite changing paced between "The Boneless Crawlers" and

"Collector of Zombies" song. The paced approach becoming more disgusting and filthy heavy which I think came with horror melodies and lyrics and suddenly swirling my head to the wall, it's a friendly-headbanger song and the feels from this tracks totally fvcking awesome! And the combination between Thomas, Lille and Rogga probably hit the high pitch on the last song from this album, "Midnight Mousoleum". It's quite grotesque-heavy than the previous song and get all the lost rotting component rejoin and mixed well together on the final runs of  "Grave Desecrating Ritual" Album. 

It's quite interesting when came to pick my favorites tracks from "Grave Desecrating Ritual" Album seem I'm really enjoy all the sick and heavy tunes from this album. With uglier and stinky of old sound production but in very advanced way, the album just showed how old death metal formation works with simple straight forward structure and lyrics, and with brilliant guitar work by Thomas, the sound of ripping snare beyond Lille drum-seat and deep monster howling from Rogga the album just cherish the zombie ritual ceremony. Also, the rotting credits must goes to Tribulacion Production and Epidemia Records for putting this excellent work by PUTRID TORSO in very awesome CD publication. It's a recommend(a)d stuff ?? Yes for sure! and for those dwell the horror and ugly feel of Old School Death Metal, PUTRID TORSO another band you shouldn't miss. 

Horror of Death

Critical Madness : NECRO-E "Assemblage of Emanated Embryo" Demo / Tape

It's quite interesting when Takashi Tanaka introduced the band directly to me back then, and I can't believed what the band was done almost 26 years ago totally never been banished in the rotting memory lane from some of us. Firstly, let's give a big rotting credit's to John from Von Frost Records to make this dream comes to dread. It's definitely a special exclusive re-issue that I think a 'must have' records for the old fans of this Japanese obscure and primitive Death/Doom and to all analog-demo-gravedigger! Thanks Takashi for hitting me up again with this tape.

"Assemblage of Emanated Embryo" demo was the band's second demo after the gore-birth of "Beginning of the Death" Demo in 1991, also the years when "Devoured Periphery" Demo was unleash too. It's not a quite mysterious and interesting when a band that already put 3 demo's in one year and after that recalled for the official split up? Only Minoru Kameizawa and Yoshio Hasegawa know the truth and I found some live footage of 'Oozing Child' on the Youtube, and it's totally a killer show and performances by the band and the crowds to be remember and just looking this old video I'm pretty sure it's was taken almost a decades ago. (Correct me if I'm wrong)

"Assemblage of Emanated Embryo" demo contains 12 songs definitely to be played in mostly low tunes of Death/Doom ways. From mid-tempo Death Metal to slower death/doom just give me a times to relax and embede(a)d my walk across the rotting carcass body. Also, there will be a huge putrid-stench of grind vibe was festered on this demo will puts you off constantly if you're not a fans for this style of rotting lo-fi productions. Some song just been slicing in very short of time, it's like you've just been left in gloomy graveyards, rotting decompose alone and eaten alive by the worms and you can spot that from the tracks 'Untamed Anathema', 'Unmerciful Mist', 'Shock on Intensities' and 'Mass Murder'. It's totally short and delivered a numerous obscure atmosphere or feels from the songs. I'm actually gotten some shock when listening to 'Unmerciful Mist', the Punk flavor and drum beat in the early of the song totally caught my ears. At the moment, I just recognised NEKRO-E actually put a very creative idea on each of the song and try approach the flavor with their own putrid style. Try listen to 'Assemblage of Emanated Embryo' tracks, the speaking style despite of growls beyond the chorus of the song probably the main highlight for me. Ha! Loved that tracks! Also the gloomy-filth melody on 'Beyond the Gates' and the outro-'Decaying the rain' just build up and reconjured the demo atmosphere.

From the mostly slow rotting low tune-paced on 'Under Destruction' tracks and to heavy-grinding death riff's from the 'Boiling Gore', NEKRO-E just put a really fvcking awesome demo back then and Von Frost Records probably put this ugly and disgusting demo in very special reissue-editions of pro-tape. The one in my hand are the brand new arts and layout was done by Mark Riddick. It's a yellow 'mustard' shell tape / cases and out in very limited 69 copies. There also have a 2nd version for this demo with the original art work and come out with high quality J-cards and it's only been press with black shell w/white cases and out in very limited to 31 copies only.

It's a good and killer reissue release both come from the label and the band. And looking how the label handling this reissue of NEKRO-E demo totally make me satisfied and fvcking happy forever!

Total classick!

Critical Madness : FUNEREALITY "Flabby Folds of Flesh" Demo / Tape

I never seen any Death Metal band that worship AUTOPSY more than FUNEREALITY! It's the fact! The previous EP, "Goregeous" , contains pretty much of unspeakable shitfun-work that turn to be a good classick release in my opinion and pushes it's more into extremely rotting and disgust level both from song and lyrics that embalmed from that EP. It's already done on the "Funeral for A Fuck", "Leeches" or "Deathwish" demo and I only can hope, Gusten Andlos can carry out more filthy, stink and disgusting stuff in the upcoming years.

"Flabby Folds of Flesh" Demo are brand new 'gut-eater' from FUNEREALITY. With infamously 'disgusting-bluerragghhh' vocal style, distortion-heavy poundead sound of bass and more extra doom riff's was present, Gusten Andlos are doing it's alone and successful again. Of corpse there are some memorable tunes on here, between the AUTOPSY's slow of doomier-trademark and the raw vibe of Severed Survival anthem. Gusten Andlos swirling out the tunes in very freshly of vile slicing meat and some riff's that easy for you to remember and humming, just like the first track from the demo, 'Pigs'. "Flabby Folds of Flesh" Demo also proved the Punk's flavor can't be separated away, I know the band have pretty much obsessed by some 'raw-pang' tune, you generally can spotted the riff's was build in very simple and straight to the ugliness of the song and with the flowing from the drums beat, rolls and blast just sound very filthy neat between the fast-slow paced. Gusten Andlos's vocals also the main factor and dominate the ugly atmosphere from the demo, with rotten shriek directly from his rotten bowel, the sick deranged styles just give some special feeling listening to the demo. 

The musical and lyrics just offer an within disgusted and more obsession method, but the majority of the song are played in very shorted. These recently era, when the revival of Old School Death and plenty of band just pay homage to old classick sound of death and take an influences from the mighty AUTOPSY, it's pretty hard to deny their incarnation and to cut off what FUNEREALITY are doing and festering for, are the big mistake you've done. I'm glad "Flabby Folds of Flesh" Demo still sounded like previous FUNEREALITY stuffs and still worship the charred-disembowel and mind-blowing AUTOPSY's cadaver tunes. A lot of shitfun-work, sinking and shit on the grave environment from the demo on the run almost 10 minutes are really worthy for those dig all AUTOPSY's and FUNEREALITY works. 

The new demo are out in very super-limited-editions of 'home-dubb' tape, and I must say, I'm just a lucky person among the 13th deadhead who get the chances to hold FUNEREALITY new demo. "Flabby Folds of Flesh" Demo is a complete disgusting new work done Gusten Andlos and I hope there are label will re-release it's again in the future in pro-press cassette.  

Stay dead, and praise the AUTOPSY!

Retribution for the Dead : Enter the horror dimensions of.... "Chamber of Laments"

If you one of DEATH METAL-Underground gravedigger, you maybe familiar with a name of 'Uriel Aguillon' - A rotting man beyond of Morbicus, Cannabis Sative, Pyrophoric, Gutwrench, Rotting Away, Cryptic Realm and another band that I loved so much, NECRORITE!  Uriel Aguillon should require no long introduction when came to DEATH METAL, he knows how to make it's and what the best flavor to make it's more ugly and disgusting one! And here, I presented to you a brand new DEATH METAL project that him worked for, VORUS!

I much dig all music that Uriel Aguillon worked with NECRORITE before and with VORUS, I founde(a)d something new and fresh that might him create and probably cemented directly into other side of my deadbrains. "Chamber of Laments" Demo definitely comes with good song arrangements-structures, horror-melodies and will remains (rotting) as one of my favorites Death Metal demo releases in 2017. 

"Chamber of Laments" Demo contains three song that spawned onto the old-premature DOD'S burial session, straight forward and catchy song, and it's just take you around 2-4 minutes for a song and delivered of mid/fast paced of old fashioned Death Metal with total ripping-rotting riff's guitar, double attack on the bass drums and grunt-ranged 

mid growls by the master himself. There are some interesting parts from the song, that got my deadbrains : froze and burning! The productions of the demo still heavier out from Uriel Aguillon touches on the final productions, Those riff's with heavy-distortions and anger-aggressive approach especially on 'Where Misery Crawls' and that 'doomier to the death' parts on this songs just show us another re-awakening Uriel Aguillon ability to create a new dimension of horror-dark Death Metal atmosphere.

Just hope there will another release after "Chamber of Laments' demo, and for those seem hold the old school Death-banner just give a chances listen up to VORUS. It's worthy for you to check!  

Paradise is Burning…
Fireballs in the sky!
Paradise is Burning….
Burnt angels in the ground!

Retribution for the Dead : The stench smell of Death!

KRYPTA may hailing from Milano, Italy, but the sound beyond the "In Torment" EP make me think that they crawled and festering out from Stockholm. The band started to spawned the dark-path of dead when Dorian (Guitarist) meet Emilian and Vlaad to join the creation of KRYPTA. This three-piece Old School "Swedish" Death Metal maggot has put a fully dedicated to the classic "Sunlight" sound trademark and it's really good to recall all again this buzzsaw tunes on here.

KRYPTA plays a style of Death Metal that is very heavily rooted in the early 90's of Swe-Death, the production sounds very heavy and the final mix-master for "In Torment" EP on Nowherecrypt really turn in very good result. "In Torment" EP, just show up that it's may be sounded more like Dismember, Entombed or other country-mate, Daemoniac but it's still be can considered as good release and those that loved all Swedish Death Metal classick-sound may be loved what KYRPTA played.

"In Torment" EP contained a numerous of heaviness touch since the EP started to spin off, from heavy-flesh ripping riff's, mellow-death melodies, deep-growled, grinding-blast-beat and the attack of double bass drum. All of that things are perfectly match onto the song and heavy influence the music that you listen to and KRYPTA show how to blend between the fast-slow tempo in this EP in very good of way, it's just naturally come to sense and you can spot that on "Doomed to be" or "The Stench of Death". "In Torment" is an uncompromising throwback to the days when Entombed started and all the track from the EP give me an chilled around my neck.  The EP are well-writing and you should know a band like KRYPTA that put a lot of works to rebuild the stink-atmosphere on "In Torment" EP can be deliver more incantation contents on the next release

Swedish Death Metal always a good music and have their own cherish of flavor to me, from the structure of the song to Boss HM-2 pedal monster box that really got me since I got my first "Left Hand Path" album back then. To wrath up the final words for "In Torment", this is old school Swedish Death Metal style that played by KRYPTA with a fully passion and devotions for this style and nothing more or less, it's just showed how much Swe-Death infected the worldwide DM band to pay a homage to this music. I very much enjoyed this EP, and recommend you to give a listen.

Retribution for the Dead : The Beastiality of "Voima On Oikeutta"

Finland has always produced a sickos Death Metal band from year to year. Death Metal-Underground in there always catch my ears, and certainly this is the real excitement of the madness for someone who digs all the "wierdos-ick" or "unusual" Death Metal! There is a certain feeling for me to choose the country that leads to the day of glorious Death Metal, but I always believe that Finland always gives me a goosebumps when it comes to Death Metal.

The founder of CALIGARI RECORDS introduced me a band that hailing from Nokia, Finland. Firstly, I might thought maybe this is just like other "mass-clones" Death Metal band that rise up this recent day, but fvck me! HUORIPUKKI not just like other Death Metal that tagged themself as a pure and total death madness,

HUORIPUKKI deserved a very high recommendation or praise and what the band do and the "disgusting" left-hand-path that their create since their first debut demo in 2008 will make the Finnish Death Metal underground scene look more strongest than before. The band already put numerous demo release since they scratch-crawling from the Pirkanmaa-graveyards. No other relevant topic or long introduction about the band for me to speak on here but HUORIPUKKI just keep my ears alert on the band path.

Here come the Beastiality of satanic death!

The latest "disgusting" and total death cassette-tape releases from CALIGARI RECORDS featured "Voima On Oikeutta" by  HUORIPUKKI, a brand new EP after the re-birth of "Barbaria.nyt" EP last years. The whole creation of "Voima On Oikeutta" EP will show how Death Metal should be played in evil and raw ways without fvcking tricky or trend. "Maailma Haudaksi" just opened up all the stink-rotting and morbid-satanic atmosphere from the EP with some classic screaming that will remind you the "The scream of rot" in "Left Hand Path" album by Entombed. The gloomy-crunch-riff's and the beat from the snare and bass drum just perfectly matches with the song atmosphere. Just pure disgusting and bestiality of evil on the first track and you can guess what you dwells for!

"Voima On Oikeutta" EP also are very strongest in terms of song decomposition and you can soft spot some barbaric-blackened parts that the band nailed will turn on your analog-volume into the high max, and "Antropomorfia" will show you a very straight-forward song decomposition and the old-primitive grinding beat with a carcass voices will torn you apart! HUORIPUKKI know how to blend and put the best and raw flavor on this 4 tracks EP and delivered to your evil soul of evil-satanic sound of Death Metal almost 17 minutes in "Voima On Oikeutta", and it's just fully of merciful death, and their music should belong to all fans that dig the real taste of Death Metal in more darkest ways!

The cover artworks for "Voima On Oikeutta" EP look in simple-sketch of the dead skull, but overall the sound that coming out from the EP will satisfied your rotting evil soul. I need to rewind back the first track on the EP before I get ready to listen up for the next track and it's just show "HUORIPUKKI's-spell of dead" already cursing into my rotting head again! It's a cool release by CALIGARI RECORDS and heading toward to the hell-tomb to grab your copies. UGLY DEATH!

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