You need Old School violence? Better call Becerus!
Recently created in Italy by Mario Musumeci (vocals, Balatonizer) and Giorgio Trombino (guitar/bass, Assumption, ex-Haemophagus, ex-Morbo), the band recruits Paul Bicipitus (drums) to release Homo Homini Brutus, its first album.
With its Death Metal inspired by the nineties’ pure brutality, the band instantly won the trust of label Everlasting Spew Records. Their slogan? The band has no lyrics. Their goal? To use the most raw Old School Death Metal form to honor Becer, the creature represented by Dahmer Art (Brutal Sphincter, Exhumed, Gutalax, Scaphism…) on this violently charming artwork.
But let’s talk about the song. After a short introduction called Foggy Dimension, that throws us into the apocalyptic world where everyone is out on its own, the band prepared nine songs forged into rage and the most nasty and violent rumblings. The band highlights dirty riffs since Primeval Ignorantia, a massive song, then the rhythmic slows down with Grotesque Parsifal Sucurandus while wearing morbid riffs and tearing leads. We do not have to wait for the acceleration, and it’s without a single form of delicacy that the band roars. Circular Deficiency picks into Grind, Balordicus draws inspiration from a Death/Doom and Latent Primordium focuses on more technical influences, but the band still makes effectiveness predominate. Whether Hymn To Ungainly Corpulence spits some harmonics to our face in addition to those controled howlings, Incapacity comes back on US Death Metal roots. The end comes closer with Marginal Presence, which stays in a basic and effective recipe, then the album ends with Bifolcus, a both dancing and brutal song at the same time.
Becerus is not the first band to offer no lyrics, but it is part of the most effective ones! Homo Homini Brutus is short and greasy, fast and brutal, but isn’t it all that we expect from Old School Death Metal?
90/100