Album Review: Engorgement - They Rot Beneath Our Floor
Reviewed by Patrick O'Reilly
A thirteen-year hiatus since their last release has seen Engorgement fester and seep into the cracks beneath the floor, the place where the bodies lay, the pit of rotten gore of their own making, a dumping ground for their victims. And they have taken this flesh and blood and twisted it, moulded it, turned it into a seething mass of hate and riffs.
The result is ‘They Rot Beneath Our Floor’ a stupendously heavy assault on the senses and human sensibility.
Opening with ‘Prelude of your dismemberment’ which unnervingly sets the listener on edge with its chilled hip hop vibes before the brutal onslaught begins, ‘They rot beneath our floor’ bursting forth from the speakers with true inhuman force, a savage masterwork of riffage, pounding baselines and frenzied drumming. Before another beguiling trippy outro, the albums true closer, ‘Blunt force osteotomy’ is unleashed, tearing its way through the flesh and bone of your head to bury into your brain. Unstoppable.
With a disgusting production from none other than Floor Van Kuijk of Korpse fame, a man who is no stranger to devastating brutality, every instrument is captured in its purest most brutal form.
Make no mistake this is true extreme metal, a heady mix of slam and brutal death, whose blasts and breakdowns will shake you to your core, like an accident in a piece of industrial machinery, and sounding remarkably similar to that too! Fans of the genre will relish this release and be left slavering to hear these songs in the live environment, which will not be far off as Engorgement prepare to tour the UK and parts of Europe in April. Make sure you are there!
