CEREBRAL ROT "Odious Descent Into Decay"





CEREBRAL ROT

“Odious Descent Into Decay”

Boy, the folks who wrote the PR sheet for CEREBRAL ROT sure had a lot of fun. They are described thus:  “like sewage winding its way through tunnels below the street, the band’s music reeks of vulgarity and the stench of noxious body fumes”.  And also: “virulent subterranean death metal glistening with pustular fallout and obscure rotten air left too long on the morgue table...” After this and similar overwrought verbiage, I’m left feeling inadequate in my own attempts to discuss “Odious Descent Into Decay”.

That purple prose does a pretty good job, though. You can already tell this is not something for fans of NECROPHAGIST and OBSCURA, but rather an all-out attack of heaving Lovecraftian filth deeply rooted in the likes of ROTTREVORE, INCANTATION and other such muck. It’s no surprise that CEREBRAL ROT are close comrades of Washington’s FETID and indeed share members from that band. The Pacific Northwest is now quite the haven for unhealthy death metal.

As if you need a further indicator of what the band is all about, song titles such as “Reeking Septic Mass”, “Repulsive Infestation of Cadaver” and “Primordial Soup of Radioactive Sewage” should make it clear even to Helen Keller. The only question remaining is: does CEREBRAL ROT live up to the potential of those song titles?

The answer is yes and that is all that needs to be said of this oozing slab of decay!

20 BUCK SPIN

CEREBRAL ROT

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