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HORRIFIER
Horrid Resurrection

Personal / Duplicate (2023)
Rating: 8/10

The bowels of Norway have once again ruptured and from such an eruption Horrifier has emerged. This smouldering mouldy debut full-length is a manky melting pot of Autopsy, Asphyx – particularly the gasping vocal traits – and classic Death Strike.

The rotten rhythms have that filthy, downtrodden quality where repugnant rumbles give way to soggier, morbid trudges of doom as showcased on morose opener ‘Chainsaw Death’. Admittedly, the production seems light and even clean, but the combo still manages to infect the listener with some truly miserable meandering.

‘Injected Corpse’ trundles like Autopsy before kickstarting into a juggernaut oozing. Vocalist Adrian Risøy emerges from the mulch with a style extracted from the dehydrated rasps of Martin van Drunen (Asphyx / ex-Pestilence / ex-Hail Of Bullets) as one imagines his head emerging from the murkiness and gasping towards a pinprick of light. This is simplistic in its old school design and rather sincere and morbidly executed considering the band only formed last year. So while the influences are obvious it still remains an enjoyable romp through the swamps.

‘Deranged Sanity’ displays a strong death n’ thrash core driven by blurted vocals and feisty bass rattle from Erik Krokan, but for me it’s the lumbering horror of the title track that really gets me salivating. The grim axe work dripping with gloominess, the traipsing doom and general feeling of being dragged into a cold tar pit before the flurry of evil energy emerges.

Horrid Resurrection is a debut that’s rhythmically fetid, groovily ghoulish and mentally moribund. Old school death metal still reigns supreme.

Neil Arnold

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