NECROTIC FLESH – Postmortem Pleasures

 
Label: MDD/Twilight
Release: November 14, 2005
By: Stormlord / Empress
Rating: 5/10 / 7/10
Time: 25:27
Style: Death Metal
URL: Necrotic Flesh
 

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.