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ECTOPLASMA
Inferna Kabbalah

Memento Mori / Rotted Life (2022)
Rating: 8/10

The wonderfully garish cover art draws the attention as we dive headfirst into the fourth full-length offering from Greek death metallers Ectoplasma. For me, this combo is one of the finest bands to emerge from Greece, and they never disappoint with those brain shuddering rhythms.

Opener ‘God Is Dead, Satan Lives (Rosemary’s Baby)’ grinds with a heavy groove, built upon the barrage of filthy drums. Ectoplasma doesn’t do anything flashy but the pulverising dynamics remain relentless as the track bleeds seamlessly into ‘Appalling Abomination’, which has a fetid, meaty chug that starts at the innards then spews up from the gravelled throat of Giannis Grim.

The album is full of thickly coated melodies dripping in gunk and sick. The title track overflows with gouging riffs and pace, and ‘Gruesome Sacred Orgasms’ begins with the filthiest bass before evolving into a blood-spattered chug of density. Meanwhile, ‘Filth-Ridden Flesh’ annihilates with its bludgeoning haste.

Yes, it’s standard old school death metal worship, but there’s a vile charm throughout – just chomp on the grinding sludge of ‘Desecration Of The Christian Existence’ or the hammering of ‘Infestation Of Atrocious Hunger’. There’s always that squalid, organic feel which is maintained even with the pacier segments.

Ectoplasma’s new outing follows fondly on from the batch of previous efforts, with consistent battering rams daubed in Technicolor imagery while keeping in with the rules and regulations of death metal aesthetics.

Neil Arnold

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