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MORBOSIDAD
Tortura EP

Nuclear War Now! Productions (2014)
Rating: 8/10

Tortura is the new EP from US extreme metallers Morbosidad. Those of you who are not aware of these guys may well have been deaf for the last few decades because this band has been around for donkeys years, infecting our lug-holes with their blasphemous brand of despicable war metal.

Tortura – if one includes demos, split projects etc. – is in fact the 25th release from Morbosidad, and so it comes as no surprise that it’s another evil batch of songs coated in their usual blackened death-thrash spit. Often delivered with raping speed, the tracks here are literally shit out with such a despicable frenzy that by the time you’ve finished you’ll probably be wishing you never discovered such hellish metal.

We get four tracks here, the first being ‘Entre la Muerte y Desolacion’ which begins with a devilish, simmering chug bolstered by the unearthly, cavernous drums of Matt Mayhem (I wonder why he’s called that?!!) who literally bludgeons the senses as the quartet resorts itself to some sort of maniacal blur of hatred, angst and devilry. Tomas Stench has a moniker and vocal savagery you won’t forget in a hurry; his style is born from the pitch black underground scene and there it shall remain, for no other realm is fit or brave enough to house such rasping horrors.

All I can really say is that if you want direct bestial metal, then you can’t go wrong with these lads who are making a living out of trawling the depths of Hell in search of the most guttural and primitive cacophony that they can extract from every demon they slaughter. So we’re basically being battered by an awful racket that is at once remote and yet confrontational, seething through the blasphemous guitar sound of Dave Callier who brings that raw, rampant edge that works in tandem with Joe Necro’s horrid bass brutality.

It’s intriguing to note that this is pretty much a new band for Stench; although he’s been vomiting out such vile madness since a demo in 1993, the rest of the guys present only joined within the past two years. With these tracks though, all bodes well for another nuclear attack on the ears as ‘En Las Gallas Del Infierno’ brings further fiery joy upon our flesh, scorching the bones and fraying sinews in its no nonsense battering ram approach which continues with the evil more volatile title track which is delivered with hyper speed and in the Devil’s tongue. And with the more measured yet still as frenzied ‘Batalla De Pecados’ rounding off this 14-minute EP (featuring guest vocals from Autopsy drummer Chris Reifert), I’m almost glad of the respite, having truly been thrashed to death by a quartet that has improved greatly from the rather disappointing 2013 opus Muerte de Cristo en Golgotha.

Neil Arnold

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