ALBUM REVIEW: Ashes, Organs, Blood And Crypts – Autopsy
Ashes, Organs, Blood and Crypts, the new album from death metal gore masters AUTOPSY is released just in time for the most macabre time of the year, in the shape of this year’s Halloween festivities. But it must be said that every day is Halloween for AUTOPSY such is their thirst for more bloodshed and carnage than a whole host of slasher movies, and with early albums like Severed Survival, Mental Funeral and Acts Of The Unspeakable alongside recent ones like Tourniquets, Hacksaws And Graves and Morbidity Triumphant alike, the band’s music has always been blood soaked horror personified in audio form, and this new record doesn’t change that winning formula.
Since the band returned to the live arena in 2008/2009 and continued making their grisly music back in 2011, following a hiatus since releasing the Shitfun album in 1995, AUTOPSY have reigned supreme and always delivered when it comes to raw death metal performed with a razor sharp finesse.
AUTOPSY waste no time on Ashes, Organs, Blood And Crypts in getting the blood flowing and as soon as opening track Rabid Funeral kicks into life (or should that be death?!), its an orgy of horror set to some of the sickest death metal mayhem around.
AUTOPSY have always had a big punk and hardcore influence, and attitude complementing their throat slitting DM and with tracks like Throatsaw, which sounds like an even bloodthirsty version of GBH and DISCHARGE, is testament to that while No Mortal Place adds a defiantly stomping groove to proceedings with great effect.
The BLACK SABBATH-meets-death metal riff fest that is Well Of Entrails sounds like the devil’s very own funeral march and the menacing outro of the title track would be fitting for any horror film, regardless of genre, all of which add to a brilliant and it has to be said, eclectic collection of death metal.
The songs on Ashes, Organs, Blood And Crypts definitely sound as gloriously demented as AUTOPSY get with Marrow Fiend sounding particularly deranged and definitely not about someone who loves large green vegetables and is an undisputed highlight on the album on an album packed full of them.
The band themselves are on fine form throughout with Chris Reifert‘s vocals and drumming both sounding unapologetically unhinged as always and the rest of the band (Eric Cutler, whose guitar playing is immense alongside Danny Coralles and his vocals sound as unhinged as they complement Reiferts and the bass playing of Greg Wilkinson adds a gnarly groove throughout the album), undoubtedly give their all too.
As Ashes, Organs, Blood And Crypts concludes with the fiendish Death Is The Answer and the fearsome closing track Coagulation, it is clear that AUTOPSY are only getting better and stronger as they go along.
It is always said that the only thing certain in life is death but another is that it is always certain that an AUTOPSY album will never be anything less than brilliant, and Ashes, Organs, Blood And Crypts is definitely that, and with this album, AUTOPSY prove yet again why they are untouchable when it comes to primal death metal of the filthiest kind.
Rating: 9/10
Ashes, Organs, Blood And Crypts is out now via Peaceville Records.
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