Stormlord:
Citation record label: „NECROTIC FLESH
does not try to avoid any cliché musically and lyrically”
– and the term cliché was the first which came to
my mind after the first few seconds I listened to Postmortem
Pleasures. It starts with the cover showing a lady
who lets us see in her innermost; it continues with the song titles
like Postmortem Self-Digestion and the instrumentation
(very deep tuned guitars!) – all oozes with nostalgia in
remembrance of Death Metal’s heyday in the beginning of
the 90’s. I don’t really like this record musically,
the one or other song grooves agreeably, the voice grunts in deepest
areas sometimes reminding of Grindcore; the lyrics deal with subjects
like butchered embryos, slow amputations of bodily parts or splashing
innards – just the beloved gore topics to get his mind free
for the basic things after the Christmas cake-cookie-inferno…the
song writing of these guys is not really intoxicating or breathtaking
at all, and so this meat platter ends after 8 songs and 25 minutes
without highlights, but without disagreeable distinctive features
too.
Empress:
NECROTIC FLESH was founded in January 2001 by
Jürgen Werse (Memorial Day) doing the lead vocals and bass-guitar,
Tobias Liesaus at the drums and Stephan Wilhelm (Rot In Hell)
at guitar and vocals. They set out to play old school death metal
from the 80s and 90s. August 2005 they finished recording their
first album PostMortem Pleasures and
signed to MDD Records.
Brutal, brutal, brutal! This is what good Gore/death metal is
supposed to sound like. Shoddy production adding to the brutality
of the record, detuned guitars, and the gain knob turned to 10
and ripped off. Blast beat after blast beat this record is old
school gore metal to a freakin’ T. Very Cannibal Corpse-esque.
Nice! These guys like false harmonics and power chords. But sometimes
simple is better! Obviously these guys have taken that to an extreme.
But hell, its a damn good album. The only bad thing I have to
say is the fact that ever song sounds almost exactly the same.
And they use false harmonics way to much. Yea, that’s cool
you can do them, false harmonics are easy... unless you can't
do them. That’s the hard part, learning how to do them.
(took me a year… damnit). But jeez, these guys throw them
in after every freakin’ chord. WE GET THE POINT! But that’s
the only beef I got. Still pretty good though. Although I have
heard this before… sometime in the late 80’s and early
90’s.