Resurrected and Rotting

Following up last year's decent debut album, Condemned Cathedral, Texan old school cult Decrepitaph have issued a limited edition 7" EP with a pair of new tracks, an intro and outro.

"Resurrected (intro)" swells with dark ambient synths for just over a minute before the death-doom tones of "Apocalyptic Pandemonium" embark on their bleak journey. Once the track picks up, it becomes another decent offering in the vein of total oldschool, crushing madness ala early Asphyx, Grave, Death, Bolt Thrower and Autopsy. Most of the chords are lumbering, fuzzed out behemoths, so when a simple melodic guitar line enters it carves out a vile moonlit path through the crush. "The Undead Shrines" opens with a distorted, doom bass line and some subtle dischords, gradually picking up into the better of the two tracks. The "Rotting (outro)" offers a brief closure with some more creepy synths, and the EP has come and gone.

Resurrected and Rotting features the same, bludgeoning tone as their debut album, so consider this an after-dinner mint, or a glass of the wine of ages, to lull you into despair before their next cobwebbed, full-course meal.

-autothrall
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