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FLESHROT
Unburied Corpse

Me Saco un Ojo / Desert Wasteland (2022)
Rating: 9/10

Trudging from the swampy grave like a lumbering, squalid ogre, Texas death metallers Fleshrot unleashes its sickly debut album; a wretched, decaying pile of steaming limbs heaped to feed the rising, smouldering dead.

Unburied Corpse is the fetid monstrosity I was hoping for, a record that drags you into its own nauseating crypt whereby a soundtrack of clanging churchyard bells and zombified gurgles resonate around the cold walls. This is an evil, putrid, stinking fright fest that slurps wickedly and revels in its own pungent state as riffs dribble in doomy dirges and faster paced segments splatter your face, leaving sticky, weeping globules of gore.

This is an immense debut opus drenched in ghoulish atmosphere and pulsating on vile chugging riffs and a sodden drum sound that complements the equally soiled bass. Nothing beats a dirty dose of manky death metal. Sure, it all comes from that squalid Autopsy-styled drudgery, but one can only shower themselves in the filth that leaks from this hideous thing.

‘Draining The Liquefied Remains’ is just one example of how melancholic, gloom-laden leads become stifled by the boggy atmosphere and worm in mournful aplomb as a blubbery riff gnashes and froths with utter contempt.

Opener ‘Wrapped In Entrails’ begins the whole sorry mess off, a doomy, clanking trudge-fest that so ghoulishly plods to the point whereby that when closer ‘Haunted Visions Of Sick Depravities’ finishes its slurping oozing, you just have to marvel at such murky madness.

Just take this bile-soaked mass of grotesque grooviness for what it is, lap at its pus, sniff its steaming orifice, and fondle every seeping crevice and crack because this is how death metal has evolved. It’s now a world of foggy, blundering mashing that plunders the depths of every corpse-swollen quagmire, every bubbling geyser of phlegm, and eventually, your own empty, maggot-ravaged eye sockets. This is an exclusive club for gore-hounds only… prepare to drown.

Neil Arnold

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