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Tehom

Iron Bonehead Productions (2022)
Rating: 7.5/10

Tehom is the second full-length studio album from this gnarly Hungarian bunch and it’s a rewarding effort that really deserves your ears.

The general tone of this opus is one that conjures images of corpses being shredded through rusty, flesh-caked machinery. Os plays it simple but with heavy dollops of roughness, particularly in guitar tone while those drums just clamber through the murkiness like a walking cadaver hungry for human brains.

If you dig old Incantation then that’s probably the closest style of barbaric death metal I’d compare this too. Maybe you could throw in a slight touch of Autopsy too, but for the most part this is more aggressive although there are some grim segments of doominess.

Everything about this record is nasty and low-end circa, say, mid-90s death metal but on an older cassette! It’s just good, old fashioned underground death metal that bludgeons along nicely, never once seeking a thrill it just exists in the earth like an old bone waiting to be discovered.

There are times due to the cruel, primitive execution of the album that some tracks may appear as one blur of grisly noise, but again I refer to that utterly miserable tone, the sort of bloodied death metal you’d want to dig graves to.

Standout track for me is ‘Inhale’ just because it successfully marries slowness with speed. I also like the creeping entrance of ‘Dissolve’ and the utter obliterating haste of ‘Submerge’, but all the tracks coughed up leave me with a dirt-coated tongue and compost in my lungs. Testimony then to the gritty, organic foulness these guys have created.

Neil Arnold

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