•
Rating: Here I am again with you, colleagues!!
Ready to delight you (!!!) with yet another unholy compilation on the beloved Death Metal.
A love, that towards this extreme musical form, completely sick...but still a love.
If only we had friends like my friend Alessio; I went to visit him yesterday afternoon at his home, convalescing from knee surgery. As always, we talked about Music, concerts, new record releases; before our final goodbyes, he lent me at least three Death Metal and Grind collections that will delight my decrepit ears for the next dreadful days ahead of me.
So I am here to tell you about Corporate Death which, to the best of my memory and hoping not to make a mistake, should be the very first compilation released by Relapse Records in its now long history. A historic label among the most important for a certain type of violent sound; born in 1990 in Colorado and later developed in Philadelphia.
The work I am pleased to present to you is dated 1993; almost eighty minutes of exaggerated and beastly madness divided into twenty-nine tracks. The bands involved are sixteen, some with multiple tracks.
Rough, spartan recordings; technique, in most songs, close to absolute zero.
A single common denominator: play all out, as fast and violently as possible. Creating chaos, damage to the listener.
A parade of bands that made the history of the most extreme Metal without any melodic concession.
There are the Finnish Amorphis at the dawn of their career when Death - Doom was still at the center of their youthful musical attentions.
The Americans Incantation give us the darkest side of a heavy and oppressive Death; with sinister growl and ultra-lowered tones dominating.
The Exit 13 of Dan Lilker (Anthrax, Nuclear Assault, Brutal Truth, S.O.D. just to add more fuel to the fire in progress) rage in two tracks of unheard ferocity, with tempo changes and improvisations that even touch a subspecies of Free Jazz; listen to "Societally Provoked Genocidal Contemplation" (what a beautiful title they came up with!!!) and you will agree with me once again.
There is not a single second of respite; the massacre is underway and continues with the champions of Brutal Death, namely the rotten Mortician who clear the competition in less than a minute. They get the putrescent palm of the most violent band of all those engaged in this truly blood-red Bignami; the voice, though better called a deadly rasp, is a grunt so dark and pestilential as to be utterly incomprehensible, even following the lyrics.
My attention shifts towards the vicious Anal Cunt (another name to deliver to posterity...) who add a filthy Hardcore breath to a sound with Death Metal outlines; Macabre could not be missing, among the very first to engage with a Grindcore-Death hybrid as early as 1985. In their case too, it is the "skinned alive" voice of Corporate Death, as the bassist-singer always called himself, that prevails. A kind of meowing falsetto that sends shivers down your spine.
I am at the end and conclude with the Suffocation: a sulfurous stream of evil mud. "Human Waste" is its title: personally among the best five songs ever released in the over thirty-year history of Death Metal.
Until next time, see you soon...GRINDCRUSHER...
Diabolos Rising 666.
Loading comments slowly
