So do you like your brutal death metal with a razor-thin production, monotone vocals and no real attempt at songwriting? Well if so, then you’ll love the new full length from Italy’s Exhumer. It’s a straight forward exercise in how to do brutal death by the book, without really even caring to open the cover to explore a little more.
As already mentioned, the production on this album absolutely sucks, with about as much of a bottom end as Miley Cyrus. They mentioned having a bassist, but he’d be harder to find than a smart Kardashian. The drums are programmed and very obviously so, adding no heft at all to the music. The vocals are a steady barked growl, with little variation there as well. As for the guitars, they barely get out of chug-ville, with just slight variation found in songs “Foaming Secretions” and closer “Putrescine”. To make matters worse, following the pointless intro, there are 2 other noise/whatever tracks that do nothing but degrade further from the whole album experience.
On a positive note, they do continue the often fun brutal death trend of inventive song names, with “Vapours of Cadaveric Mucilage” and “Adipocere: Corporal Glue” being some of the more notable ones. The actual music on this LP is only about 20 minutes, so it’s more of an EP length. I continue to be a huge fan of brutal death, but it’s a genre that when done bad, it’s REALLY bad. This is definitely one of those cases. Take a pass as you won’t be missing anything.
I kinda dig this. Those bass drops are weirdly awesome- they sound like sound barrier breaking or shock waves from a distant explosion.
on Jan 8th, 2014 at 09:36it’s a really good album, much better than their first cd!
on Jan 9th, 2014 at 15:00