Pourriture Asap Hitam Konsorsium
2024 Brutal Mind (CD)
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Man, do I love Indonesia. The country cranks out so many good death metal bands, and this is no exception. I've never been there, but I can only imagine a country that has this many good bands also has plenty of awesome things to do otherwise. Usually bands from there are relentlessly brutal, but Pourriture brings a technical edge. It's brutal but also focused on craft. I can hear some influence from Suffocation, Dying Fetus, and Brodequin. The playing is absolutely perfect, and the riffs are immense. The production is perfect if a bit loud. It has a lot of the sonic trappings of modern brutal death metal, but that's ok. I love that the drummer is constantly doing little fills here and there, filling out the riffs and making some solid decisions with the instrument to keep things interesting. This is an album that would normally run the risk of heard-it-all-before technical death metal, but the innovation in playing from all these gentlemen keeps it out of that particular sand trap, especially the drummer. I like the decision to sing in their native language as well. I never understood why bands thought they had to use English. Most of the English world understands that they don't have the only language in the world (at least, in 2025, this is now true). Vocally we have the usual guttural vocals, but a twist gets thrown our way once or twice, like in the song "Protagon Analisis" where some shouted vocals are mixed in, I'm assuming from the guest singer on the track. Nevertheless, it adds something special.
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