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What an hatred starts to grab my chest every time I listen to

this breed?honestly this stuff is so crappy it doesn’t even

belong to a genre? Holy Shit please somebody beat the shit

out of this pile of shitty garbage. I am curious to know who is

going to buy this tape because if somebody likes this mockery

of metal?black I speculate.. please warn me and I’ll send

him the money for a McRib at McDonalds.

Who oh! Whan I heard that this band featured members of CENTURIAN I was pretty thrilled to heed their arte. Contrary to my expectations, this band prove themselves to be a square foot beneath CENTURIAN’s uncontrollable severity. Sure, the band is fucking brutal, and the vocals deep and guttural, and the whole sound sounds far more American, but even if that’s more than enough to gain a fully deserved vote, that fails to keep the level I was expecting from a band supposed to be even more cruel than CENTURIAN. Well cornering these considerations, this is an good demo band though completely forgettable. Riffs are fast and drumming frenetic, and the whole demo spews a perverse way to express Death Metal in a very classic but a bit predictable manner.

1 - Altered Genetic Structure 2 - Stomathological Devastation 3 - Necropedophile Orgasm

The cheap embossing Photoshop trick on the logo might be a bit disturbing (it is for me ehm) for DIY maniacs, and the glossy covers shows the material is not garage stuff. But. The band itself is definitely NOT cheap. A short history lesson : PENIS LEECH have existed in one form or another ever since 1995, when they had an almost entirely different line up (including the actual NATRON singer), starting up as a Grind core band, the music got increasingly heavier, more technical and big as the years rolled on terminating in one of (in my opinion) leading Death metal bands in my country. I think that on a purely technical perspective, this demo is shocking, the recording is as neat as any latest BROKEN HOPE album, the vocals have the guttural, stomach wrenching curl of NECROPHAGIST and DYING FETUS, and yes, if I can indulge on this last band, I think some of the vocal patterns could be fairly referred to them, especially when it gets more slamming and pounding. PENIS LEECH play Death Metal, they don’t give a fuck to hide it, and they play it the American way, and so fucking well they could submerge 99% of the actual American scene in their poo and pee. A genetical abomination made up of DEEDS OF FLESH and FLESHGRIND the riffs are big and complex, thick as a puke ejected after a paella meal, kinda remind me even of SUFFOCATION at times, when everything stops and start again with a concatenation of mind spanning melodic (again SUFFO school) solos and brutal meat chomping blasts, but I repeat, everything performed much better than your average rapcore American clone, this band actually don’t just strike the floor of the stage with their feet while performing, they have catchiness and professionalism… I have heard only two bands in all of Italy that play this particular untainted kind of Death Metal (NATRON some years ago and not UNDERHATE), and PENIS LEECH is definitely the third voice in the field (and beat me now, maybe the best one as well). Two thumbs up, damn fucking great.

A THYRFING project, as insipid and uninteresting as THYRFING but not as skilled. Not so awful to anger me, but enough to gain my compassion.

1 - Lo Scarlatto Aleph delle Passioni 2 - Incolore Distopia (L'Ultimo Viaggio) Pt.1 / Pt. 2/ Pt. 3 3 - Outro

It would be easy for me to hate this demo, to crush it with some caustic humour. But Borys is not the kind of person you can erase with some short sentences, he deserves an intelligent, deeply felt review, and so I’ll try describe what I feel listening to ATROPOS. First, you old crusty bastard, you probably didn’t know I have a weak spot for flutes. I mean the medieval sound of flutes always got me in, and well, you took me off guard with this demo. As said before, it would be easy to erase it just becouse I write for a gore/death fanzine. But I won’t. I won’t becouse I surprisingly like this stuff. It happens not more than once, twice in a year that I actually like this kind of “soft” music (but as you stated, to define “extreme” is not always an easy task, and I do like exrtreme music…eh), but again I, indeed like this trippy dark wave/gloomy medieval stuff. The Dorè artwork, the dark grey shades of psychedelic, neoclassical soundscapes, the deep, sad but martial vocals, and all the sorts of trippy schizoid shit which is stuffed in the end of side B actually sucked me in… there’s this jingle which could be easily taken from some sort of old horror movie, set in a moldy, rotting circus with splintered rides and tattered faded tents, this demo comes as varied as you can imagine, and very very gloomy. Sometimes it borders on noise, sometimes in almost unnerving Italian pseudo poetry… but the whole stuff is a tapestry which actually makes some sense. Some disturbing sense, the sense of something you can only scratch on the surface but can never see in only one way. It cones out of a computer, but the sound is luckily human, not some sort of synthetic garbage. It’s the kind of music I need sometimes after scores and scores of blinding savagery. Not too much of course eheh…

Weird this band hasn’t been signed so far, I thought Italy is bursting of labels ready to welcome such horribly gay bands like this one. No, really, I am confused, I am amidst loathing and sadness while listening to this …can’t even rate as shit, really that’s something nobody with a fair decency should listen to. If ever bands were to race for the worst pop band in the planet this band would be a billboard fixed member. And what’s worst, this is pretentious too, with a repulsive array of wannabe melodic and technical solos…and the lyrics…that’s a mesh of stupidity and cheapness. No human with a fair amount of decency should play like this. This band not just sucks, it repulses me.