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PERISHING
Lutum (2024)

When the opening chords of ‘Tenebrous Resurrection’ hit one feels as though they are being dragged into a swamp of rust while methodically being struck on the head by a bag of cement. This is some seriously heavyweight material from San José, Costa Rica-based Perishing that is about as deft as a massive church bell tolling.

Despicable doom-death is the order of the day here on this four-song demo: pungent, suffocating slow-motion torture that creeps, yawns and slithers with such ominous aplomb. ‘Existential Rift’ shifts like a patch of thick algae on a congealed lake, a place where no-one dare frequent due to its dense, silted beds and reeking air. I’m hesitant to use the word “vocals” because such emissions are merely grotesque gasps and chesty growls. The title track offers some respite from the oozing gloom, but the rank chugs remain foreboding clumps of sodden compost churning like a peat bog disturbed by writhing coils.

Perishing play the sort of grim death-doom which furs arteries, clogs veins and congeals lungs; that miserable aching and traumatic boiling littered with deranged guttural bellows. Everything about this is dank, dismal and dripping with a stinking menace… and I love it.

The Lutum demo is available via Caligari Records and can be purchased here.

Neil Arnold

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