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CEMETERY FILTH
Senses Of Detriment EP

Rotted Life (2024)
Rating: 7.5/10

The dripping you hear signifies the presence of a new release from Atlanta, Georgia-based death metal clan Cemetery Filth. Emerging four years after their Dominion full-length debut, the band continues to supply heaps of mould and mulch, although nowhere near the standard of the genres gore-soaked maniacs. Even so, Senses Of Detriment is an enjoyable romp through a framework of the grotesque.

Previous efforts nodded towards old school brutality entrenched in a style familiar to Benediction, Morbid Angel, Autopsy and Bolt Thrower, but with this new five-track EP the band has taken their first steps towards a more progressive sound that circles around Atheist and Death, particularly on the cosmic crush of ‘Cyclocognition’ and the cover of Death’s ‘Vacant Planets’.

Serrated, jagged edges emerge on a cut like ‘Intrepid Ways’ with its meandering complexity and also on the more maniacal wilderness of the title track where the brain gets a scrambling from riff shifts and spasmodic percussion. The band remains rough terrain to navigate and still harks back to the more simplistic bludgeoning of earlier times, but just like the classic predecessors of the late 80s and early 90s, Cemetery Filth clearly feels the need to expand and explore and I see nothing wrong with such experimentation, especially when the weight remains.

I found myself listening to this alongside the Miscreance platter, Convergence, from 2022 for extra manifestations of deathly intricacy and otherworldly alignments.

Neil Arnold

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