Eternal Rot - "Cadaverine" (Godz ov War Productions, 2018)

Band: Eternal Rot
Title: Cadaverine
Genre: Death/Doom Metal
Time: 28.56 min
Release Date: 17th September 2018
Rating: 57/100













In October 2018 I received a mega-pack from the Polish label Godz ov War Productions. That pack contained not only 6 cds but also a t-shirt of the label that its boss Greg Rosensthal gave me for free! At this point, I have to underline here that Greg is really great and Godz ov War is a fantastic label, so support it! Below, you can see the t-shirt as well the cds of that pack.

As you can see, one of the cds is the here reviewed "Cadaverine", the debut album of Eternal Rot, an International duo coming from Poland and United Kingdom that was founded in 2012 to infest your golden nights. But, contrarily to the last reviews focused on grindcore and on the purest aggression (Psychoneurosis and Nuclear Holocaust), today you must expect to be literally devoured by something veeery slow.

In fact, "Cadaverine", whose cover artwork was made by the illustrious cover designer Mark Riddick, is a true triumph in the purest agony. This because it contains 4 lenghty tracks in which there is a raw, anguishing and disgusting death/doom metal that seem to show the inexorable and apocalyptic march of zombies ready to eat every fukken human being on their sick sight. So, everything here is so incredibly anguishing: the pace is always slow, the growls are truly low, and the final song "Slough of Despond" tortures definitely the listeners by playing only a single riff throughout this 9-minute tour de force! At this point, it's a fortune that this album lasts only 29 minutes circa, don't you think?

But now it's time to express some doubts of mine about "Cadaverine". So, let me say that it isn't really engaging for my broken ears. In fact, I think that it is so poor in terms of variations and arrangements to to be too monodimensional. This is due also to a flat drum-machine (yes, there isn't humanity behind the drums!) that plays the same (sloooow) things throughout the songs, and you know how much I hate the drum-machine! In addition, I believe that this death/doom metal needed one or two vivacious (or faster) tempos in order to make it in a more intense way. But it's possible that the lovers of bands like Winter or Disembowelment will enjoy anyway this agony!

So, sorry but this 4-track debut album, that was produced by Haldor Grunberg (that is nothing else than the bassplayer of the punkish black/thrashers Mentor), isn't in my tastes. Ok, its desolating and disgusting atmosphere, emphasized also by the intros and outros made by the Polish electronic music artist Zenial, is interesting but, if you insist to play always in the same way, the general sound can be too predictable and not intense and, unfortunately, this is the case of "Cadaverine". Hence, I suggest to Eternal Rot to add in the line-up a real drummer as well to create more dynamics to their music also through faster solutions, as I said before. But I don't think that Eternal Rot will want to play in a more "human" way...

P.S.:

be "Cadaverine" sounds good or bad for my ears, the white t-shirt of Eternal Rot is really fukken amazing!

Tracklist:

1 - Undying Desolation
2 - In Their Decaying Eyes
3 - Putrid Hallucination
4 - Slough of Despond

Line-up:

Grindak - vocals
Mayer - guitars/bass/drum programming/vocals

Guest:

Zenial (intros and outros)

FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/EternalRot
BandCamp: http://eternalrot.bandcamp.com/
Godz ov War Productions: http://godzovwar.com/