{"id":104182,"date":"2024-11-01T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=104182"},"modified":"2024-11-12T11:42:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T11:42:50","slug":"album-review-cryptic-brood-necrotic-flesh-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-cryptic-brood-necrotic-flesh-bacteria\/","title":{"rendered":"CRYPTIC BROOD – Necrotic Flesh Bacteria (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

CRYPTIC BROOD
Necrotic Flesh Bacteria<\/strong><\/span>
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\nWar Anthem \/ Lycanthropic Chants (2024)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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A great little piece of trashy artwork accompanies the third full-length studio album from Wolfsburg, Germany based Cryptic Brood. As expected, Necrotic Flesh Bacteria<\/em> is another weird and wonderful journey into the twisted minds of a trio who fuses slabs of slime-coated doom and rotten death metal.<\/p>\n

The track titles say it all \u2013 \u2018Acid Fumes\u2019, \u2018Oozing Pox\u2019, \u2018Viscid Fluid\u2019, \u2018Reeking Pitted Innards\u2019 \u2013 although such gunk n\u2019 gore seems the standard in today\u2019s deathly metal market. A song like \u2018Digging Through Skin\u2019 epitomises the sound of Cryptic Brood; a plethora of dehydrated slime run in tandem with furious, cascading death thrash riffs circa Pestilence or Asphyx.<\/p>\n

The opening chords of \u2018Acid Fumes\u2019 bubble like a fetid vat stewing bones before a scuzzy punk crossover kick ensues, while \u2018Oozing Pox\u2019 begins like some rank slab of doom before reaching grindcore levels with its algae-coated bass and chesty vocals.<\/p>\n

Whichever gear they shift too, Cryptic Brood ensures that the gear stick will be coated in a toxic, indelible film. \u2018Hallucinogen Poison\u2019 begins like a strange marrying of Black Sabbath<\/a> and Cream, \u2018Realm Of Rot\u2019 is a congealed globular mass of traipsing doom and repulsive hardcore, and the title track follows suit but with extra layers of angular bass and swampy jarring.<\/p>\n

I just couldn\u2019t help but play this album alongside Florida\u2019s Wharflurch as Cryptic Brood concocts similar patterns of psychedelic psychosis. The likes of the foul leakage of \u2018Viscid Fluid\u2019 and the unhygienic slogcore of \u2018The Pile Of Flesh Is Served\u2019 are all soundtracks to septic tanks of sewer slurry and intestinal slop. It\u2019s no wonder that these mutants have spent time on street corners with fellow sleaze bags Anatomia, Night Hag and Graveyard Ghoul because Necrotic Flesh Bacteria<\/em> is another festering sandwich of auditory offal.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CRYPTIC BROODNecrotic Flesh Bacteria War Anthem \/ Lycanthropic Chants (2024)Rating: 8\/10 A great little piece of trashy artwork accompanies the third full-length studio album from Wolfsburg, Germany based Cryptic Brood. As expected, Necrotic Flesh Bacteria is another weird and wonderful journey into the twisted minds of a trio who fuses slabs of slime-coated doom and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,5820],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-cryptic-brood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104189,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104182\/revisions\/104189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}