Undoubtedly FESTERING SALIVA plays good Death Metal with good melodies, good catchy rhythms and good head-bang-parts. All songs are performed well and the lyrics deal with subjects like war with a typical Death Metal cover… so far, so well?
Entirely, for "only" well played music is not enough for me after hundreds of homogeneous publications. The voice clings beautifully brutally, speed slows down or rises in the correct moment – the boys out of Munich seem to know how to compose. Only: where are the surprise moments, these rhythmic variations that tear the listener of fright, or simply marveling off his sofa? So the short acoustic intermezzo in the title song remains fastened as a courageous and really surprising effect in the memory. Fortunately this stylistic device shows up during A Napalm Way To Live as well as entirely at the end of the CD once again; otherwise the band relies on proved solid Metal paths. Songs do please as well as the partially correctly quite dragging Realm Of The Forgotten and also the sound of the disk – not too polished and therefore roughly powerful – fits in outstanding manner.
Realm of The Forgotten probably would have blown me against the wall, if I was new in metal at all; after the enjoyment of legions of similarly stored groups, FESTERING SALIVA is only one of many good ones – follower of the good old school á la Dismember or Grave will absorb this publication certainly greedily I guess.