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DRIPPING DECAY
Ripping Remains EP

Satanik Royalty (2024)
Rating: 8/10

Only six months ago these Portland, Oregon-based death metallers issued their superb debut full-length album Festering Grotesqueries, so I’m surprised they’ve re-emerged so quickly. But I’m certainly not complaining because one can never have too much grisly death metal to feast on and with Ripping Remains the guys have once again produced a batch of gore drizzled treats.

Six tracks, culminating in a cover of Halloween’s ‘Trick Or Treat’ hit you like a bucket of slop as Dripping Decay rancidly flays you with their maniacal weapons of mass putrefaction. The opening title track burps, bleats and batters its way into your orifices with a mayhemic belligerence before a sinister break enables the band to dwell in a slower, murkier groove.

‘Lead To Kill’ is more melodious and measured after the onslaught of ‘Emanating Necrosis’, but both harbour that slime-coating which comes to the fore with the demented judders of ‘Wormridden Piety’; particularly in the stampeding percussion. Meanwhile, ‘Oppressive Repulsive’ gnashes and mashes like the rusted pincers of a crushing machine as again those rushing percussive hammers work in tandem with vicious, sobering riffs.

To an extent, the rendition of ‘Trick Or Treat’ is somewhat out of place but does show that the band can adapt to a rockier groove and it’s a fun way to end the EP. Don’t be surprised if Dripping Decay are back again soon, proving to be as prolific as Jason Voorhess and Michael Myers combined.

Neil Arnold

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