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CORPUS OFFAL “Corpus Offal”
CORPUS OFFAL “Corpus Offal”
By Dr. Abner Mality
If you’re ready for some REAL death metal, here’s the debut from CORPUS OFFAL. This self-titled slab of sickness is more morbid than a mortician’s convention and more repulsive than a sewer clogged with human body fat. This is indeed the real deal, but once you learn that the band rose from the ashes of CEREBRAL ROT and also features members of CAUSTIC WOUND, DEMONCY and BELL WITCH, it makes perfect sense.
I’ve heard plenty of sick...and not so sick...bands in the last couple of years, but where CORPUS OFFAL shines is in the pure unadulterated morbidity of their music. This is a vibe that was fairly common in the early days of death metal...the first two DEATH albums, the debuts of OBITUARY, INCANTATION and MASSACRE...but somewhere along the way, brutality replaced morbidity. With CORPUS OFFAL, almost every note sounds like it was composed in a tomb. The production by good ol’ Billy Anderson finds that magic spot where the guitar tones sound thick and rancid yet also have clarity. So when those cryptic riffs hit, they hit with maximum effect. The result is grim in a way that the likes of UNDEATH and SANGUISUGABOGG could never produce.
They also dig up those “cat strangling” bursts of lead guitar you used to hear a lot more in the old days. Before everything got all technical and shit. Combined with vocals that sound like they could evacuate a septic tank, CORPUS OFFAL deliver the deadly goods on six long songs full of muck, mayhem and merciless morbidity. Their name track “Corpus Offal” is the perfect example of their relentlessly lightless attack, but the whole thing stinks...in the best possible way! “Gurgling Gastric Decedent” is another killer track. Only on the 12 minute plus “Secreted Effluence”(Spilling) does their reach exceed their grasp. 12 minutes is just too long.
So if you’re man (or woman) enough to make real death metal part of your daily diet, dig into the awful corpse of CORPUS OFFAL!
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