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DEFENESTRATION
Mortal Cremation EP

Self-released (2023)
Rating: 8/10

I’m surprised that there are a handful of bands under the Defenestration moniker, but in this instance we are dealing with a Canadian death metal posse.

This is some really catchy stuff that revels in the murkiness of its own grim and slurry-ridden riffage. Bleak solos pierce the ever-rising levels of fog and gloom, the vocals are typically squalid and choked with mulch, the drums of Adrian Shroeder thud like a soil-clogged spade digging another soggy grave and the bass of Steve Dee dismally plods its own forlorn path.

Defenestration hints at cavernous but its range is mostly mid-tempo, guttural and quite straight forward in its abysmal rumbling. Opener ‘Vastum’s Rise’ is a steady river of muddy percussion; dismally attired grog and grot that gnashes and rolls. Meanwhile, the title track sounds like a bloodied plough grinding through blood-soaked earth, churning up bones in its wake.

This EP is littered with hideous bouts of trudging horror as ‘Eternal Night’ announces itself as another gouging tool which whisks at foul broth in order to construct fetid torrents of gore. ‘Slave To The Steel’ closes the EP as another mid-paced behemoth, a grinding slog that simply confirms my belief that these Winnipeg deathheads are the newest name on the chopping block. Defenestration is a ragged corpse that like so many others is keeping the genre rotten to its core.

Neil Arnold

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