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TERROR CORPSE “Ash Eclipses Flesh”
TERROR CORPSE “Ash Eclipses Flesh”
By Dr. Abner Mality
It wasn’t that long ago that members of TERROR CORPSE were in MALIGNANT ALTAR, a boilerplate death metal band out of Texas. The difference between TERROR CORPSE and MALIGNANT ALTAR is not vast, but it is there. If anything, this new outfit is even more primitive and troglodytic than the previous one and in this case, that’s a good thing.
They describe themselves as being equal parts early CELTIC FROST and old INCANTATION and that’s exactly what it sounds like. They don’t approach the god-like levels of those morbid giants but they understand what made them work. The sound is as icky as a tumor that’s come to life and crawled out of a corpse, with plenty of down-tuned riffing and vomiting vocals from Mat V. The first two cuts, “Pyre of Ash and Bone” and “Gate Zero”, were about the same level as MALIGNANT ALTAR...also-ran caveman death metal. With “Womb of the Hollow Earth” things pick up almost solely due to how putrid things sound and then with “Blissful Incineration”, things start clicking for TERROR CORPSE. This is a bone-breaking crusher in the vein of faster CELTIC FROST.
From there, you get more sickness in a workman-like manner. “The Hollow That Devours” and “Fallout Obliberation” are more better than average tracks, with the latter really hitting a death-doom stride like INCANTATION. They wrap it all up with a mediocre cover of FROST’s “Into the Crypt of Rays” which really isn’t close to the original despite a triple pronged vocal attack.
“Ash Eclipses Flesh” hits the mark for sick death metal...just barely.
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