Re-Buried is already back.
Barely two years after their debut opus, the Translation Loss Records-signed band featuring Eddie Bingaman (guitar, ex-A City Screams in Terror), Clayton Wolff (bass, ex-Un, ex-A City Screams in Terror), Alex Bytnar (drums, Un, Wounded Giant, ex-Anubis Rising), Paul Richards (guitar) and Chris Pinto (vocals, Fórn) unveil Flesh Mourning, their second album, in collaboration with Iron Fortress Records.
Obitual Illusion offers a slow grimy heavy sound with disturbing harmonics and raw vocal parts in a macabre Death/Doom style that plunges us back into this violent, greasy universe. A few more energetic eruptions punctuate the composition, such as double-kick or blast moments, before Jagged Psyche takes over with more energetic and aggressive patterns while feeding its unhealthy leads, before letting the dark groove of Rotted Back to Life shake our skulls. The track remains catchy as the rhythmic pattern ignites, spilling out more vivid and putrid sounds at a fairly steady pace before giving us a moment’s float thanks to the sample of Chainsaw Ritual, which wonderfully presents the bloody, jerky riffs we’re exposed to. The rhythm section bludgeons us at different speeds, while remaining anchored in that Old School touch with its raucous cries, before Flesh Mourning takes over, clearly accelerating its carnage and borrowing some devastating riffs from Brutal Death. The eponymous track ends with an agonizing death rattle, followed by Pestilence Fog, which revives the machine with a solid, abrasive and fairly regular sound, featuring a powerful performance by the vocalist, as well as a very strange solo in his final moments. We’re back in business with the disturbing Putridity in Existence, which begins with slow, Funeral Doom-style riffs, then picks up the pace with hints of dissonance in a more aggressive approach before running out of steam, leaving Cold Blood to close the album with a touch of melancholy, but above all a much calmer, more ethereal sound.
Re-Buried, who openly draw their inspiration from the Death/Doom scene, regurgitate their riffs with exemplary fidelity. Flesh Mourning will be your bedside album if you appreciate the style!
85/100
