CORPUS MORTALE — FleshCraft (review)

CORPUS MORTALE — FleshCraft album cover Album · 2013 · Brutal Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
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FleshCraft (2013) is the third full-length album by Danish death metal act Corpus Mortale. As their first release since A New Species of Deviant (2007) FleshCraft is something of a comeback album for the group, although they’ve stayed together during that time. Corpus Mortale has never been the most productive band though despite a history which goes back to 1993. The good thing though is that if FleshCraft is anything to go by when Corpus Mortale do surface to put a new album out you can tell that this is a band that knows their craft well. Pun very much intended.

The music itself is fairly standard death metal of the no frills attached kind, resulting in an album that will give you about forty minutes of unrelenting power, intensity, and aggression. The guitar work of the group is the most impressive element of the album, not because it’s particularly technical or has abundant virtuosity, but the riffs keep me entertained throughout, making a great backdrop for the deep growling vocals of Martin Rosendahl. What lead playing there is on the album is also quite laid back and used to flavour the riffs. I like that, it shows they care about the song instead of feeling obligated to solo. Overall this is death metal with old school values although the sound itself comes over as quite modern because of the clear production.

The songs go tend to blur together a bit because of the single-minded approach to the music, although I have to give special mention to Scorn of the Earth, Enthralled and Seize the Moment of Murder as the best out of the ten tracks, while the opening Weakest of the Weak comes across as, if you’ll pardon the pun this time, the weakest of the bunch. I won’t say it’s aptly named though because in general the album is quite strong, although I do feel obligated to point out that it’s one of those albums which is at its best when taken as a whole. Individually the songs, even the highlights, suffer due to not being memorable enough to keep me wanting to come back to them. I can remember the album as a whole well enough to say that FleshCraft is a pretty great death metal release, but stick a song from it on and tell me to guess which it is and I couldn’t honestly tell you. But the important thing at the end of the day is that although the opener is my least favourite song here if I stick it on at the start I can happily listen to it right through to the conclusion, and it’s because of that that I feel okay to give it a great album tier rating.

75/100

(Originally written for Heavy Metal Haven (http://metaltube.freeforums.org/corpus-mortale-fleshcraft-t2894.html))
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