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Corporectomy - Within the Weak and the Wounded

Great first release, but too short! - 90%

Bitchslaughter, August 20th, 2010

With members of well known underground brutal death bands like Infested, Irate Architect or Awaiting The Autopsy, Corporectomy presents us their debut EP – a great piece of work.
At first lets take a look on the obvious features of the EP. The cover artwork looks great, cool arrangement which remembers me to the tortured souls figure series, but with too little contrast I think. The album title “within the weak and the wounded” sounds not very original to me, but for that the song titles are great. Creative ideas like “Bottom Feeder” or “Born Backwards” make me laugh as hell.

The songs itself are a good mixture of fast and technical brutal death with some mid tempo parts. You won't find too slow breakdowns here, so there are no pauses for getting new breath. The drumming is completely precise and relentless with its blastbeats. The guitar riffing is very catchy and one ear-worm riff follows another. Also the singer does a great job, with brutal deep gargling exhales. There are some background screams, but they're not annoying which, I think, is very important. The whole production quality is very clear and well balanced. You can hear every nuance of the drums, riffing and vocals. Brutal!

A point I want to highlight is the intro sample of the first song. Apart from that the sample is a funny take and fits in, I appreciate it that the band did not overdo it with the samples. One (good) sample in five songs works for me. The other songs mostly start with a catchy straight to the face riff which feels comfortable. You can put the CD in your player, pick one of the songs and you get instantly blasted off the couch by the brutal sound of the instruments and the vocals. Especially the beginning of song four is heavy as fuck!

Which took my attention is, that I often realize guitar riffs which sound very similar to Infested. In my eyes this is great because its a special style of riffing and not very common. This may due to the drummer, which actually is from Infested, haha.

The last song is a little bit more groovy then the rest and also fades out, which makes a good ending for the ep. And this leads me to the only bad thing I have to say about this release: it fucking too short! I think this band has a lot of more potential, so i'll look forward to their first full length!

Not Original, But good Songwriting - 75%

MetalStrikesDown, January 23rd, 2009

Most of the time when a band lacks originality, I usually seem to not like them because of that and usually they are not as good as their clones. But one thing that caught me off guard about this band is their ability to make things catchy. Now I don't necessarily care if the music is catchy, it of course is usually a plus and makes the music much more memorable. Some of the most common blast beats can be heard within this album; also the most common breakdowns. But on this EP Corporectomy use what they learned from others and figured out how to structure it into their own songs. With the unusual intro sample, the band already shows that they differ from what other Death Metal bands do. The intro sample does not bring fear, gruesomeness, or even shock, it is just fucking stupid. It was a good attempt at having a different one, but they obviously could have stuck with one that was funnier or offensive usually works.

They seem to have branded their own sound really, this does sound funny because I just said that the band uses really nothing original except for how they structure their songs. I guess another example of what I am thinking of is how Eluveitie use anything In Flames has ever done but obviously have their own touch to songwriting and extra elements. The thing is with Corporectomy is that they seem to have the perfect mixture of brutality and songwriting skill that can make me compare them to a band such as Belphegor - I guess it is a bad example to use since they aren't too popular, but they know what they want to do and they accomplish it. The EP does remind me an awful lot of Necrophagia's album Divine Art of Torture because they have slower parts where it is a faster type breakdown and then switch to brutality and a great use of riffs to pummel the listener.

This EP took me probably about six or seven listens until I realized I actually like it. I usually give up on an album by that point. But since I was committed to reviewing this, I kept listening until I could formulate a complete opinion. I started to realize that it was good while sitting down in my room and actually focusing on the music instead of driving in my car, where of course a lot of music listening happens. So if you happen to find yourself listening to this EP and are having a hard time getting into it, just sit down and really listen to the music. Their use of guttural vocals, complex riff patterns, plentiful use of blast beats, and their use of breakdowns simulate a generic brutal Death Metal band; but this EP shows that with those elements of their predecessors that a band can still construct good music of their own ideas.

Originally written for http://www.metalcrypt.com