{"id":8349,"date":"2011-02-23T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-23T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=8349"},"modified":"2014-07-16T12:17:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T12:17:32","slug":"album-review-decrepitaph-profane-doctrines-unburied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-decrepitaph-profane-doctrines-unburied\/","title":{"rendered":"DECREPITAPH – Profane Doctrines Unburied (2011) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

DECREPITAPH
Profane Doctrines Unburied<\/strong><\/span>
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\nRazorback (2011)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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This is the third studio album from this deadly American duo \u2013 namely Elektrokutioner and the even more delightfully named Sinworm. One spin of this foul disc and you\u2019ll be consumed by the suffocating guffaw of the undead, because this is very much old school death metal that sounds like it\u2019s been drenched from the most foetid tomb; think of a grotesque mix between England\u2019s Bolt Thrower and US gore gods Autopsy.<\/p>\n

I thought I was in for another dull and very modern sounding experience… how wrong I was! This is basically a doom-laden, fuzz-ridden quagmire of curiosity that forms as some kind of rank hell spawn and grows into one of the heaviest monsters I\u2019ve heard for a long time.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, the \u201cband\u201d need not batter our senses with hyper drums and wailing guitars, instead everything about this is rotten in its weight. Picture a long concealed carcass dragging itself from some mist-caressed grave and you just might get the idea of what Decrepitaph are about. These two lunatics are talented multi-instrumentalists who with ease have puked out some of the most wretched old school sounds I\u2019ve heard since the early 90s.<\/p>\n

The album opens with the reasonably fast and morbid \u2018Convulse In Eternal Agony\u2019, which sees Elektrokutioner pounding the crap out of his skins, but immediately I notice that where Decrepitaph differ is in their quest for the eerie. To some, the initial grooves may sound unoriginal, but Sinworm adds some truly mournful, creepy and unusual solos and melodies which writhe amidst the spooky gloom.<\/p>\n

\u2018Desecrate Sacred Flesh\u2019 is all dense bass \u2013 I can see the skeletons crumbling in their coffins as Sinworm vomits out another distant bellow. This is guttural in every way, but also accessible due to its heavy nature, and again I\u2019m reminded of the war-torn strategies and sludge of Bolt Thrower.<\/p>\n

\u2018A Suffocating Evil\u2019 is a prime example of the band at full weight. This is truly punishing and yet groove-based, crawling like some ominous ooze before a killer solo interrupts briefly, its shrill discord no doubt awaking the dead.<\/p>\n

\u2018Domain Of The Occult\u2019 is a more uptempo affair, combining a faster drum with another doomy riff before picking up the pace, while \u2018Evangelical Evisceration\u2019 is just as unpleasant.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s the old school smog of \u2018Ghost Of The Gallows\u2019 which provides a lethal injection to proceedings. This is an awesome slab of a song, straight from the morgue of misery, riding high on a depressive solo, reminding me of old-style My Dying Bride as it seeps into the system.<\/p>\n

The record then reaches its pungent climax with the nine-minute \u2018The Crucifix Crumbles (A Decrepit Epitaph)\u2019, and yet despite the crushing weight of the album in general, the experience is quite fleeting. Maybe it\u2019s due to those massive grooves or those eerie injections, but either way, Decrepitaph have old school death metal down to a T, and after a few listens one will be wondering how to rid the house of that vile odour. <\/p>\n

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

DECREPITAPHProfane Doctrines Unburied Razorback (2011)Rating: 8\/10 This is the third studio album from this deadly American duo \u2013 namely Elektrokutioner and the even more delightfully named Sinworm. One spin of this foul disc and you\u2019ll be consumed by the suffocating guffaw of the undead, because this is very much old school death metal that sounds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,437],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-ep-reviews","category-decrepitaph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8349","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=8349"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20330,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8349\/revisions\/20330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}