Having just watched the legendary Nails deliver two flawlessly aggressive performances in as many days, I was delighted to find this new release from the gargantuanly brutal Melting Rot. I was kinda in the mood…
The Rot have very much lived up to their name and on this, their second album, ‘Infatuation With Premeditation’, have delivered an 18 minute melting pot of barbaric grindy assaults, groovy and deathy haemmorhage-inducing sections and a combination of near-pig squeal vocals combined with guttural growls and roars.
If you like it hard and fast, no moment of this will disappoint – but tracks like ‘Human Pavement Splatter’, ‘Aiming For Construction Workers’ and ‘Open Cask Vomit Spew’ will be particular, albeit very brief, highlights.
The musicianship on display here, in technicality and speed and precision, is astonishingly accomplished, and makes a relatively raw production sound colossal and tubular. By the time you hit the pacey chugging section during ‘Torrential Continuous Arterial Bleeding’ and then the ultimate earache that is closer ‘Forklift Facelift’, you are well and truly a Melting Rot convert.
This is a horrible, vile and dirty. And I love it. Think Exhumed, Shrykull and Vomitory. Then speed it all up.
Best Paired With: The Local Hospital Sharps Disposal Bin, Taking your Nan a box of grapes, and A Dodgy Zippo.
Reviewed by Jaff.
Melting Pot – Infatuation With Premeditation is out now on Hell’s Headbangers Records.
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