ANTROPOMORPHIA - Necromantic Love Songs

March 25, 2016, 8 years ago

(Metal Blade)

Greg Pratt

Rating: 8.0

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ANTROPOMORPHIA - Necromantic Love Songs

This is a collection of old material (the Bowel Mutilation demo from 1992 and the Necromantic Love Songs EP from 1993) from this cool Netherlands-based grimy death metal band. Here, the death metal is gross and harsh and raw and ugly, the band coming across like Autopsy jamming early Celtic Frost, working with as much power when they take it slow (“Birth Through Dead”, heh) or fast (“Chunks Of Meat”), the pure craggy horror coming through loud and clear no matter which route the band has taken. So the first six songs here are the EP, and the production is great, very well suited for the tunes, which themselves are excellent. 

The final five are the first demo, and there's not a huge drop in production quality, the snare actually sounding quite charming in its rawness here. The main drop is in the songwriting and, moreso, atmosphere: the EP definitely took it up a notch in the latter, although the demo's eight-minute “Splattered Remains” is pretty excellent in both regards and “Rotted Flesh” ain't no slouch either. Main takeaway from this is not so much that the EP is killer but that I need to revisit the albums, which I must admit I had forgotten about; if they're anywhere near as cool as the EP, they're worth getting to know a bit better.



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