Cadaver Disposal
May All Be Dead ()
Wydane przez Nihilistic Empire Records/New Music DistributionRok wydania 2013Kraj GermanyNapisał Wouter6
I will never understand press leaflets, and I will never have any sympathy for the poor slobs who are forced to write those sorry wastes of paper. Not only are most press leaflets incoherent, self-aggrandizing non sequiturs of the highest order – a reviewer learns nothing from them, other than that the people who wrote them are utterly clueless tools. In the press leaflet the band is more than once compared to Tampa, Florida has-beens Six Feet Under as if it is some kind of achievement, or something to brag about. It’s death metal, but this platter of splatter is more influenced by Stockholm than by Florida or New York. It’s hard to believe than anybody these days would take Chris Barnes seriously, or consider him a worthy influence, but Cadaver Disposal mimic his grunting style in a frightening fashion. There seems to be some cognitive dissonance going on here on a number of levels. For example, the gore/splatter artwork doesn’t seem to fit the overall military and war-theme that the band has chosen as central subject. Not that it is particularly hard to do war oriented death metal right, conceptually – there are enough precedents. Just look at Bolt Thrower, Hail Of Bullets, Jungle Rot, Malevolent Creation or Warpath. At least for a while it appears former Belphegor live drummer Florian ‘Torturer’ Klein was involved with this band. He’s not involved with this recording, but it was worth pointing out. Aside from the disconnect between visuals and subject matter “May All Be Dead” is a good little death metal record. It goes through the expected twists and turns of the genre. It will not herald the return of a more pure death metal movement (that one never went away to begin with), but it is a nice little album that does exactly what you think it will – and that is reassuring. Odin knows we get far too less pure death metal around these parts, so these casketcrushers are more than welcome, and its good to hear this thing still being done once every blue moon.
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