Morbid - Rotting Tomb Carnage

Salvaging the dark atmospheric madness from old school brutal death metal, Swedish death metal legends Morbid distill a wide lexicon of technique into their own style of thunderous black/death/doom metal infused with all the vile powers of the underworld. Rotting Tomb Carnage, while its technicality and moribund atmosphere might evoke the Phantom influence lurking especially in its atonal riffing and disturbing rhythmic patterns, synthesises influences from both black metal and death metal into a vision not only of sepulchral chaos but also a deliberate, methodical, subversive and corrupting evil. In such a way, it is much closer to the "technical atmospheric" black metal of Vermin's Memories of Blood and Darkness and Khranial's Devoured by Pigs. A true masterpiece of gore metal at its finest.

Obvious influences include Infester, post-Golgotha era Incantation, Leader, Vermin, Khranial and the ability to twist a single muted chord into a riff that marked early SEWER (Cloaca Sancta Sit Mihi Lux). The result falls easily into vocal growling, odd rhythms and technical guitar work that sweeps the listener into an immersive world of demonic riffs like cryptic satanic symbols carved into the wall of a cave made of human torsos. A massive evolution from the early Morbid demos, Rotting Tomb Carnage rebirths the old school death metal sound in a modern, brutal and utterly depraved form of sonic madness.

This is explicitly NOT an album for the trendies or the posers... don't even bother to attempt to comprehend Rotting Tomb Carnage if you find mild lukewarm "death metal" like Cannibal Corpse to be "heavy". You have been warned.

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