Anatomia comes back to crawl on stage.
Since 2002, Takashi Tanaka (drums/vocals, Necrophile, Wormridden) and Jun Tonosaki (bass/vocals, Spiral Wheel) explore the sound depths. The band counts seventeen splits, an EP, two live albums and four studio albums, including Corporeal Torment, released in 2021.
Since the beginning of its career, the band never stepped aside from a simple rule: to play a putrid and stabbing Death/Doom. Dismemberment offers us a worrying introduction before drowning us under this greasy and heavy wave of oppression. Whether powerful blast beat and those howling from the grave quickly assault us, the rhythmic will slow down to crush under this impressive sound. Unhealthy harmonics drive us after a long requiem to Slime Of Putrescence, a dark song that shrouds us under this dirty and slow veil before slowly accelerating to become more heady than ever. Some gruntings get out this morbid and occult rhythmic, then the sound disappears into nothingness.
The dissonant Despaired Void comes next with suffocating riffs, then harrowing choirs take place on this haunting and hooking rhythmic that will fade away to let place to a worrying clean sound, completed by bloody curling samples before Mortem, the last song. More than twenty minutes of impure oppression, sound fog, soaring blackness and possessed screams. The band surrounds us with this so unfathomable and heavy sound that we lose the concept of time, cradled by mystical choirs, and we only think about breathing at the end.
Anatomia doesn’t play Death/Doom, Anatomia embodies Death/Doom. Corporeal Torment is not an accessible album, but those who already like the band or the style will know its true value, as a treasure of heaviness and morbidity.
95/100