First
off, let me tell you that I really like what is happening nowadays in Germania,
with their killer death metal scene. A lot of great bands have emerged there
lately and many became some of my favourites. That includes also Revel In
Flesh, of corpse! Also I like the idea to release a series of split seven inch
vinyls, which Revel In Flesh participate in. It is really cool idea and great
thing for the collectors, like myself, especially as I always liked both the
idea of split releases and also the whole feeling of playing short, but killer
singles (especially when they contain exclusive, unreleased material). I am
sure that some people will moan that maybe it would be better to put all three
songs, which Revel In Flesh has recorded for these three EPs on just one, maybe
10” or 12” record, but who cares… some people will always find a reason to
bitch about, just because this is their nature. Anyway, yes… In 2014 Revel In
Flesh has released three split 7”EPs and this is the first one titled “Corpus
Obscuria”. It is an alliance with American Grave Wax! Released by Doomentia
Records (who as always did just a great job, when taking care of the killer
artwork, layout and the quality of their products), it is a fine piece of old
styled death metal and a killer piece of black wax to add to the collection!
OK,
starting with Revel In Flesh… Their song is titled “Corpus Vermis” and it’s
something exactly what I was expecting to hear from this band. They carry on
playing their rough and obscure death metal, which is so heavily infected by
the classic Swedish sound and style that some may think it was recorded in
Stockholm back in the early 90’s. So there’re many of those harmonic riffs on
“Corpus Vermis” present, which will remind you of Desultory, Goddefied,
Dismember, Edge of Sanity and so on and on… And obviously Revel In Flesh has
also that aggression and roughness of the classic Swedish demos and albums. So
yeah, generally again nothing new, nothing what would not be heard before, but
just cool and solidly composed / performed Swedish infected death metal. If you
worship this style, then I bet you’ll love this song again. I also like these
riffs a lot, but maybe have some second thoughts on the sound of this song,
which could maybe be more powerful, drums especially. In the first listen I
also could not find myself in the order of these riffs, as the song structure
is quite weird and messy, but I got used to it after a while. “Corpus Vermis”
may not be the best thing, which Revel In Flesh has recorded so far, but it is
good and solid. And generally I real enjoyed it… as always!
And
now Grave Wax. I have their split with Claws somewhere in my collection, but
haven’t listen to it for couple of years already, so I kind of forgot what was
Grave Wax like. But it certainly is a promising project, seeing the line up
with Kam Lee and Riddick brothers. They present two songs actually; “Obscuria
Darkness Enraptured” and Impetigo cover “Dis-Organ-Ized”. For the second, I was
never a fan of the grindcore gods, so I wasn’t too excited about the cover, but
it is OK; reminds me the old Carcass actually, especially with these dual vocals.
“Obscuria Darkness Enraptured” is the more important song and damn; it is
really cool and definitely something what I would not expect to hear. I mean, I
rather expected more filthy and fast sort of grinding death metal maybe, but
meanwhile Grave Wax also shows their Swedish infection, with some harmonic and
even quasi acoustic playing here and there. Not really a playing, which would
be focused on sheer brutality and guts ripping, but more on creating the dark,
maybe slightly eerie atmosphere (compare the production of Grave Wax song to
Revel In Flesh – two very different kinds of death metal sounds!). The music is
slow, kind of simple, but effective, the sound is really “grim”… and the vocals
a great!
Final
rate: 75/100
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