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FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY “The Nothing That Is”
FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY “The Nothing That Is”
By Dr. Abner Mality
The last album from FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY, “Oh What The Future Holds!” was a real eye opener and remains as my favorite deathcore record. It showed a real willingness to mix other styles into the usual deathcore formula, including some shockingly great melodies. The result was something that transcended the limitations of its genre.
So I was looking forward to the followup and here it is at last. I must admit to some disappointment. “The Nothing That Is” seems to be a step backward to more “typical” deathcore...it ups the brutality and heaviness, but loses a lot of the variety and melody that helped the previous record stand out. Now those aspects are not gone entirely...cuts like “Red Horizon”, “Lust For the Severed Head” and “The Silver Sun” have some of those moments...but they have been pushed to the background. A lot of songs revolve around the usual ultra low breakdowns, lightspeed blasts and mixes of harsh and clean vocals. Some of them, like the opening “Hostage”, hit hard. That track is so massively heavy it can’t be denied.
I would still put this ahead of a lot of core bands, but that’s a rather low bar to leap over. I almost get the feeling from “The Nothing That Is” that FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY felt they should put the brakes on their evolution and back up a bit. Maybe that will keep some of the kids trying to pick quarters up from the pit floor happy, but there’s a bigger world out there and FFAA have all the tools to get the best of it.
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