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 : Undergang "Doden laeger alle sar" Full album / CD

I dont know, how much I loved this band since the debut album of "Indhentet af doden". Undergang always stick with their own roots and believed the old formation of death. You know some band when their already releasing their debut album, their probably dont take any chance to go beyond when their started. The formation of stuff release like Demo-Album-Album-Split is casual for me but Undergang totally breakout from this formation and you can see after their releasing their debut album back in 2009, Undergang releasing a demo or we can called it promo, "T.D.O.S" 2011 and another one "Kogt i blod" 2014 after the departure of 2nd album, "Till Doden Os Skiller". So I believed Undergang have their own style and dont follow the trends of living dead releases. 

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Lets enter the new and third album from this rotten and filthy death by metal from Denmark. Death Metal without solo guitar and fill up with killer high-climex riff guitar and simply drum beat actually very unique and killer actually in my point of view. Example the first track from this album and rotten credits goes to Eric Cutler with his solo guitar on the ending tracks from this album. For me, I believe Death Metal is a tunes that we playing over and over again, so here, no more issue about who copies who since all the classick-killer riff or song structure already wrote and compose since the early days when terms of Death Metal came out from the grave. We only change its a little bit or recycle with our own styles and if you ask David Blomqvist from Dismember, his probably say that the "bible" Dismember use over and over is from the mighty Autopsy! Listening to second tracks from this album, I can feel the riff guitar from 'Dying Moment" Silent Death. One thing we cant change when listening to Undergang, is the lyrics fully written on their mother of tongue language. I dont understand actually what their singing but fuck yeah Metal music is very unique!  Regarding to sickos rotten sound, the cover arts from this album also look very sick done by D. Torturdod ( v + g ). If you the fans of doomier to the death tunes and who loved skansk beat and probably one of Autopsy fans that waiting for their new releases from Chris Reifert and co, dont take a long times to grab this death by metal master-piece from Dark Descent Recs. One of my favourite release in 2015 on CD. Till doden os skiller!!

Critical Madness : Daemoniac "Lord Of Immolation" EP / CD

Finally! Before this Max already told me about his new project that his been working out since left the Italian death metal bands, Horrid. He say "the debut EP totally real into early 90's Swedish Death Metal tunes man..." And the final result here. Whats "Lords Of Immolation" contains probably what Max say before is true and real. Dont forget the best combination when you creating the real old Swedish Death Metal sound is the combination between Tomas Skorgberg magical hand on his own legendary studio. Sunlight Studio and this little pedal monster, Boss HM-2. You can feel the rancid and raging buzzsaw death riffs chainsaw when your hear the whole EP. I would say, this debut releases from Daemoniac mostly complete and perfect in all ways. You can hear some crazy grinding and blast beats and then change into slowly doom moment on track like "Demonic Possession". Also, there a good cover song from Crematory include on this EP and tracks "Lord Of Immolation" closed the whole EP in the killer ways. Entombed and Dismember feeling still fill up the air when you listening to this EP with the dirty sound that sounding so great on the glorious day of Svensk Dodsmetall. 

Discarnage fanzine #3 / Pages 82 (Photo credits goes to (rot) Daemoniac)