2024 Inherited Suffering Records / CD
BADASS SONG TITLES: Feasting on the Festering Dead, Godless and Gutless, Maggot Infested Tomb of Gore
Before I get to the praise I'm about to heap on this album, I have a few nitpicky criticisms to get out of the way. First, the "pingy" snare. Never did really dig it, but I understand some folks like it. Second, the absolute brickwalled loudness of the album, or at least the instruments. And if it's not brickwalled, they have somehow achieved face-melting overdriven production values some other way. The guitars are loud as fuck, and they occasionally bury the vocals and sometimes the drums. But, this does give the album its own character, much like old 4-track recordings gave the original death metal bands' demos their character. I'm not complaining so much as just pointing it out for people that might be a turn-off for.
But let's get to the good shit, which is the rest of the record! This is a two-man international project from Filip Ryba (instruments/Czechia) and Dakota Rivera (vocals/USA). You might recognize both their names from Carcass Rapist. Dakota in particular has worked on a shitload of bands in the recent past. I'm going to say something about the songwriting right now that I want other bands who use a lot of slam riffs need to hear - Putrified Degradation gets outstanding marks for their songwriting, and it's because they know how to use a slam riff. They mix it in with the blasts, and even when they form a significant part of a song, the drums are there to step up the intensity over and over again. They do this shit right. And this band doesn't use the same goddamn riff over and over again and just write different lyrics to it. Filip did an amazing job on the music here, and I commend his skills.
In fact, the slam sections of their songs sound downright sinister, with the dynamic, deep, sick-ass guttural vocals (which, thankfully, stay the fuck out of pig mode and sound evil as shit!), shine in a way that most brutal death metal bands cannot achieve. Dakota's vocals are just excellent, all the way around. They actually make the slams sound evil, as well as the blasts. Songs like "Molded Into a World of Torture" should be studied by other bands in this subgenre to show them how the to write actual heavy, good brutal death metal with vocals that actually matter!
This is top-notch brutal death metal, and if my two small criticisms in the first paragraph do not bother you, then go buy this motherfucker, it will not disappoint the brutal-heads out there!
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