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CHURCH OF DISGUST
Weakest Is The Flesh

Hells Headbangers (2022)
Rating: 8.5/10

The cover art should give you an idea of the sounds encased within, this being the third album from Texan death metal troupe Church of Disgust.

Although it has been six years since their last outing – Veneration Of Filth – the gruelling combo sticks with the tried and tested formula of big, meaty riffs of filth, deep barking vocals and just a general feel of punishing old school styling where crushing mid-tempo grooves mary up with pacier sections.

Everything about Church Of Disgust is grisly, so you know what’s coming. It’s not about bewildering technicalities or even progression, these guys carve off huge chunks of flesh which is wrapped around the bass strings, the drum skins are battered with shards of bone, and the guitars boiled in fat.

It’s bruising robust death metal, from the opening trudge of ‘Arrogant Death’, which features a nasty bass and maniacal solo, to the organic chunks of the behemoth of a title track. And if you like your death metal gnarly, punishing yet clinical with its instrumental grind, then Church Of Disgust has assembled a titanic ensemble of riveting, raving tunes for you.

Of the batch composed, my personal favourites are the guzzling speed of ‘Horrific Anathema’, with its galloping Autopsy vibe and slurping vocal licks, and the murky mash up of ‘That Which Dwells In The Gloom’, a feisty yet fusty fusion of rancid pace and melancholy.

Yet how can anyone overlook a song entitled ‘Boiling Seas Of Yuggoth’, which epitomizes the harrowing variety hidden deep within the Church Of Disgust. Those foaming faster segments entwine with infectious, muscular passages of the mid-paced morose coating in slime-ridden vocal spots and coughs. It’s all so putrid yet catchy, hammering yet earthy, and by the end I’m coughing up soul.

Church Of Disgust are masters of their trade, marching on, ploughing great furrows and leaving life-threatening wounds.

Neil Arnold

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