COPROLITH (Can) – Putrescence CD

Truly titled, Putrescence is a vast landscape of rot and dread. COPROLITH illustrate this landscape with a bounty of the very best sounds of the very early ’90s: DEATH METAL, tried and true, but stirring within their cauldron is the tank-like bludgeon of ​Grave, the monolith pulse of Demigod, and the sepulchral tendrils of ​Incantation. That the Canadians splice & sluice those ingredients to their diabolical design shows both a lifer’s understanding of these foundational sounds and, more so, a will to honor this tradition ​with fiercely focused personality – keenly knowing what’s ​between the slimy exoskeleton and its rotten underbelly, so to speak. And the fact that all but one of the ​album’s six tracks stretch well beyond the five-minute mark shows that there’s charred, ​challenging vistas being explored along the way…