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LEPROPHILIAC
Slimebath EP

Rescued From Life (2022)
Rating: 8.5/10

Be warned, the Spanish sickos are back! Crawling from their bloodstained bathtub, Leprophiliac oozes across the pus-spattered floor, drags you out of bed and chews you to death, bit by bit.

Slimebath is another gross descent formed of gouging riffs of misery, slurping hungry bass lines, psychotic drum slaps and vocals from the cess-pit. In macabre reality only the likes of Sequestrum and Pharmacist belong in the same septic tank as these ghouls.

Feel the weight of the shocking front cover image on the tongue and attempt to swallow this heap of bile down in anticipation of its foul presence colliding with and cording the innards which you’ll cough up in great, blubbery piles.

Leprophiliac is just a pile of congealed muck. All five tracks on this EP twitch like a spasming cadaver suffering the rigours of a hammer attack. Only Leprophiliac kill slowly, grinding you into mincemeat as each squalid chug tightens its hold until your sorry carcass floats then bursts, showering the walls in filth.

Opener ‘Tameshigiri’ just stinks, revelling in its own foul slurry as the percussion tumbles like a bucket of bones cast into bloodied mud. The grind, as always, hints at old Carcass and those putrid goregrind abominations, with the utterly miserable chugging drawing you in to its pit of pity and disgust.

‘Under The Swarm’ kicks in with punky drum tirade and equally rattling dynamics, and this is about as “upbeat” as these maniacs get, showcasing a punky hardcore tone harkening back to a late 80s UK scene vibe straight from the ‘Hardcore Holocaust’ days. The track maintains its pace in spite of the grisly slower vocal pokes.

However, it’s the utterly vile ‘Children Of The Leatherface’ which proves why these guys are masters of their trade. Again, there’s that hideous, gnawing chug, with the bubbling bass, the dank percussion and the air of cloying, dusty menace. The track is barely two minutes long, but its density and doominess is suffocating. The title cut follows sickly suit even with a slightly pacier introduction, but it’s still deep, gnawing and morbid.

Closing with a rendition of No Mercy’s ‘Waking The Dead’, Leprophiliac mixes both trudging evil with faster rhythms and you forget that this is a track written by a Californian crossover act back in the 80s. It’s a great way to end this release, but again it leaves me salivating for more. For now though, Leprophiliac has achieved its mission in infecting a small populace and I can’t wait for further contagion.

Neil Arnold

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