Clean Flesh

Well, where can I start? Surely Clean Flesh didn’t conquer the world with this one and only release in their discography. This homonymous EP was put out in 1997 and we can easily describe the music inside as a brutal death metal with some other extreme influences. The vocals are grunt and mostly on pig style while the drum machine is so cold on the blast beats that it can be easily seen as a grindcore-goregrind one for the aseptic sound and the clear-cut, manic precision of the beats.

Already from this description, the scenario is not a happy one and we cannot find funny stuff because here everything is cold, chirurgical and dead. The production is not bad at all because it’s perfect in giving the right powerful to the instruments and the right atmosphere for these sick pieces of pig style gore/death metal. Since the opener “Coprophagy” we are submerged by relentless blast beats, slow breaks, rotten guitars and the inhuman, distorted vocals. They are totally incomprehensible.

The solos are, however, quite good in giving the right dramatic and perverted touch. The bass drums beats are just synthetic and not credible in speed and sound. The drum machine is more audible in those parts, because the snare drum doesn’t sound that horrible, as well as the cymbals. As you might imagine, there’s no much variation in terms of songwriting. All the songs here are quite similar because there are no emotional or standout moments: everything is planned to be cold, martial and perverted.

The inevitable influences come form Mortician even if here the general distortion of the instruments is more human but always “alien” in terms of heaviness and putridity. I mean that is not normal, at least for me, to listen to this kind of excessive brutality. The doom breaks are putrid, they smell of decompositions while the riffs are on some kind of tremolo picking but the sounds are quite confused thanks to the overused treble distortion. The bass is inaudible, always if there’s a bass here.

Overall, this album is not that accessible and to enter into this you must be strong or simply a fan of these lurid, vicious and cold sounds. This is pure gore/grind and that’s it for me!