Necrotted is about to fall upon us with Operation: Mental Castration, its fourth album.
Created in 2008 in Germany, the band is composed of Philipp Fink (guitar, ex-Hackneyed), Fabian Fink (vocals, bass until 2013, ex-Hackneyed), Markus Braun (drums, ex-Cathedraline), Koray Saglam (bass, ex-Rotten Pope) and Johannes Wolf (guitar).
The band’s basis is made of Death Metal, but not only, because we find on My Mental Castration, the first song, quite modern elements, nearly Industrial stuff. The band’s sound is impressive, and it also offers some breaks, like on Compulsory Consumption, a very heady song made into pure violence and dark oppression. Julien Truchan (Benighted, Néfastes) joins the band who plays Slam with Asocial Media Whore, adding unhealthy influences to those diversified but still super powerful howlings, then after some leads the moshpart drives us to Work Hard, Gain Nothing, a very catchy song. Heaviness and fastness relay one another, accompanied by some dissonant parts, then Grimo (Cytotoxin) joins musicians for a crushing Happy Dysphoria in all the word’s senses.
Abhorrence and Anxiety comes back to this raging acrimony with modern and hooking sound that will please to regular pit attendees, while the band adds a worrying dissonance to its very solid rhythmic. It’s blackness again that comes to live into The Burning Emptiness in Me’s riffs, while the band crushes us with breaks and thick riffs, that will be a basis for airy leads. Drained will probably be on the band’s setlists thanks to its raw effectiveness, but also its sharp harmonics that will morph into brutal and jerky palm-mutes. The band reconnects with fastness on Mirror’s Malicious Glance, coupled to this catchy sound, then blackness and oppression on Cynic Suicide, a very suffocating and critical song. Rage, dissonance and heady leads close the album.
Whether Necrotted’s basis can be found without a doubt into Death Metal, the band picks into Slam, dissonance and pure rage to make Operation: Mental Castration an as effective as diversified album.
85/100