Reviews

Anatomia Review: Anatomia is playing their usual brand of Doom-infused Death Metal… Their side of this Ep is only featuring one long song, it starts in a pretty upbeat and aggressive manner, riffing in the style of Autopsy’s Mental Funeral opening song. Mid-way things get progressively slower establishing a really mesmerizing, creepy climate of pure doom. There’s a very obsessive, almost acoustic-sounding guitar lick (or is it a bass line?) played over and over, which practically seems taken out of a horror movie soundtrack, it’s probably my favorite part of this song. Vocals I’d say are more in Incantation’s vein (which I’m sure is another influence), extremely deep guttural grunts from beyond the grave… These guys are absolute masters of the slow, atmospheric Death Metal genre and the material on this Ep doesn’t disappoint. This Ep comes in a very tacky looking pink color which totally rules! The insert is also a cool-looking silver ink on black background of the best effect.

Offal Review: Obviously not japanese, but brazilian death metal… It’s difficult for me to review this since I’m responsible for the cover art on this side.. Anyway, I’ll just deal with the music-side of this: the first song starts in a very doom-like way maybe to pay respect to Anatomia then turns into superb catchy old school Death Metal stuff that totally takes you back to the early 90′s! It finishes on a quite atmospheric & melodic note fading out. The second song then cranks up the grinding tension with a Haemorrhage cover (which is an original choice, there aren’t that many bands out there doing Haemorrhage covers it seems)… This is a very faithful rendition of Grume’s “In Nephritic Blue”. Vinyl fits Offal “Over There Guts Everywhere” turns out to be probably my favorite Offal song from their whole répertoire so far! Again apologies for the bad art, but this split Ep is really worth it for the music anyway really, check it out!