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SADISTIC DRIVE
Athropophagy

Headsplit / La Caverna (2020)
Rating: 8/10

Lapping at your spouting entrails like a ravenous rabid dog is the debut slop fest from Finnish death metal brigade Sadistic Drive.

This festering four-piece released a killer demo in 2018 entitled Street Cannibal Gluttony – a sickening feast of foul smelling flesh right out of the death metal video nasty rulebook – and with this new opus the combo has kept the slime bubbling with a cesspool of tumultuous vomit sacks.

For under half an hour your guts will be twisted, ripped and finally violently removed from your body as guitar chords of gore chomp at the rubbery mess, basslines will burrow in parasitic fashion, and percussive slaps will slurp at the ooze.

Vocally, Sadistic Drive belch up the usual goodies, squelching burps of dismay through ten episodes of slurry, with titles such as ‘Acid Vomit’, ‘Disease-Ridden Pervert’ and ‘Body Part Puzzle’, while chart hits ‘Ferox (Victim Of Anthropophagous Tribe)’ and ‘Neurosyphilitic Lunacy’ roll off the tongue like bleeding cysts coughed up from the trachea depths.

This is pungent death metal with catchy riff slogging, faster ’n’ frenzied rabid deathrash and gloomier passages of purulent fog. Opening cut ‘Serial Cleaner’ pretty much sums up the Sadistic Drive sound in one flurry of mucus mush, while the hyper bog blasts of ‘Internal Putrefaction’ keep you on your toes before hacking them off. Elsewhere, ‘Run Over And Left To Die’ features a nasty, infectious chug, and the short fuse of ‘Lust For Scum’ is equally catchy in its squalid movements.

Several spins are sure to drive away the flies, but the buzzing horrors are sure to return such is the fetid and rotten nature of another belting quagmire of death metal.

Sadistic Drive can be thrown into the same abattoir that holds Cerebral Rot, Worm et el, offering up chunks of maggot-ridden meat in the form of grisly, guzzling songs that’ll eat you from the inside out.

With riffs more contagious than the bubonic plague, Athropophagy is the latest guide to extreme metal splatters sure to get you rewinding and pausing as if it were the latest cannibal movie to get tangled up in your video player.

Neil Arnold

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