Gorerotted - Mutilated In Minutes
2002 - Dead Again Records
By Philip Whitehouse
More brutal death metal! Christmas would appear to have come early for this particular reviewer. I'm getting inundated with the stuff, and there's been a surprisingly consistent level of quality in the releases too!
Take Gorerotted - this album is about half an hour's worth of the fastest, vilest, heaviest, Macabre-meets-Deicide deathgrind I've heard in quite a while. Two members share vocal duties, in typical subsonic growls/glass-gargling screeches configuration, while the drummer lets rip with some blistering double-bass-pedalling and blastbeats. The riffs are caustic and grinding while still being razor-sharp in their precision, although they're not particularly groundbreaking.
In fact, the main riff to charmingly-titled ditty 'Stab Me Til I Cum' sounds frighteningly similar to Deicide's 'When Satan Rules This World' - but this can be forgiven since, let's be honest here, Benton's crew have gone severely downhill, while Gorerotted can still create sonic havoc with apparent ease.
A few longer songs would be welcome, as the album seems to go by in a whirlwind blur of extremity, and perhaps a bit more variation (and, indeed, innovation) in the songwriting wouldn't go amiss... but for now, as they are, Gorerotted are delivering a fantastic slice of gore-laden deathgrind - and 'Put Your Bits In A Concrete Mix' is reason enough alone to buy the album - which would fit well in any gore-obsessed metal fan's collection.
8/10
2002 - Dead Again Records
By Philip Whitehouse
More brutal death metal! Christmas would appear to have come early for this particular reviewer. I'm getting inundated with the stuff, and there's been a surprisingly consistent level of quality in the releases too!
Take Gorerotted - this album is about half an hour's worth of the fastest, vilest, heaviest, Macabre-meets-Deicide deathgrind I've heard in quite a while. Two members share vocal duties, in typical subsonic growls/glass-gargling screeches configuration, while the drummer lets rip with some blistering double-bass-pedalling and blastbeats. The riffs are caustic and grinding while still being razor-sharp in their precision, although they're not particularly groundbreaking.
In fact, the main riff to charmingly-titled ditty 'Stab Me Til I Cum' sounds frighteningly similar to Deicide's 'When Satan Rules This World' - but this can be forgiven since, let's be honest here, Benton's crew have gone severely downhill, while Gorerotted can still create sonic havoc with apparent ease.
A few longer songs would be welcome, as the album seems to go by in a whirlwind blur of extremity, and perhaps a bit more variation (and, indeed, innovation) in the songwriting wouldn't go amiss... but for now, as they are, Gorerotted are delivering a fantastic slice of gore-laden deathgrind - and 'Put Your Bits In A Concrete Mix' is reason enough alone to buy the album - which would fit well in any gore-obsessed metal fan's collection.
8/10
