2.7.07

Mortal Decay - Cadaver Art

Recently, the album I've listened to the most has been Mortal Decay's Cadaver Art (Unique Leader, 2005). It's near-perfect death metal, balancing brutality with melody, technicality with headbang-ability, and blasting with slower, almost jazzy grooves - the drumming is incredible! Frequent stacked fifths recall Death, and the vocals nicely mix midrange rasps and low growls. The production is crisp, and Par Olofsson (who did the cover for Odious Mortem's Cryptic Implosion) contributes vivid artwork.

The Ravenous Addicted
Cadaverous Sculptures Part 1 - Preparing for Display

According to guitarist Joe Gordon, "We're actually working on new shit now. Hopefully we'll be in the studio soon. The new full-length should be out early '08." Definitely something to look forward to! In the meantime, Cadaver Art is available at Unique Leader (which has a "Buy 3, get the 4th free" special), Relapse, and Emetic.

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2 Comments:

Blogger dschalek said...

An excellent album, didn't really like their full-length prior to this one, though.

10:24 AM  
Anonymous Andrew @ AVERSIONLINE said...

I don't have this record but I saw these guys live years and years ago and was really impressed at the time. I bought whatever full-length they were touring on at that point (my memory blows) and enjoy it more than these tracks, but as far as that gurgly-vocalled brutal death metal goes these dudes are certainly better than average.

8:46 AM  

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