Cancerous Womb
Born Of A Cancerous Womb (1cd)
Wydane przez Grindscene Records/Rising Nemesis RecordsRok wydania 2014Kraj UKNapisał Flemming Gabin6
How does a band consisting of former Cerebral Bore members sound? Like Cerebral Bore. The reason why anybody still talks about Cerebral Bore was this little girl called Simone Pluijmers – and her exit from that band was more infamous than her presence in it. Anyway, so yeah, “Born Of A Cancerous Womb” sounds a lot like “The Bleeding” era Cannibal Corpse and early fucken Skinless. This is actually a pretty fun little record. Overproduced to all hell and I could fucken do without the Pantera riffs and deathcore rhythms/chord progressions, but for death metal in the 21st century – this could have been far, far worse. There’s a lot of Deicide in the riffing too, whether that’s a good thing is up for fucken debate, but it is worth pointing out. You can hear the bass guitar too, which is always a fucken rarity in underground death metal. Just fucking saying. There’s two things I absolutely fucken hate in the underground: a bass guitar that you can’t hear, and fucken typewriter drums. These guys might look like violent soccer hooligans, but at least they got the production right. This is hardly a mandatory release, and anybody telling you otherwise is a fucken clueless idiot, but that aside this is a fun little record that doesn’t make any pretenses about what it is. ‘Hunted To Extinction’ and ‘Grind, Tear & Slice’ probably are the best songs on this record; the first has a great fucken solo too. ‘Austrian Basement’ is a song about Austrian horror opi Josef Fritzl, and its lyrical concept is more interesting than the actual music. So yeah, Cancerous Womb is hardly reinventing the wheel here, but that’s a good thing. This is super cleanly produced death metal for bros and jocks with enough appeal to actual death metal fans as well. Sure, it isn’t going to dethrone any of the real classics, but what the fuck is these days? Some label signed these guys, so they must be doing something right. The long and short of it is that “Born Of A Cancerous Womb” is far more tolerable than most contemporary death metal, which is a fucken relief cos most of it is terrible these days. And if you think Cerebral Bore were all “revolutionary” for having some blonde flat-chested Dutch broad on vocals, you seriously need to look into your death metal history. For fucken reals.
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