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Crushed Review

Rotting - Crushed
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Crushed

TypeAlbum (Studio full-length)
Released
GenresCrushed
LabelsUnited Guttural Records
Length32:50
Ranked#193 for 1998 , #8,595 all-time
Album rating :  73.3 / 100
Votes :  3  (1 review)
Reviewer :  level 12         Rating :  70 / 100
What I’m about to say could be taken either as an insult to the genre or the band, depending on what fence you’re on, but I promise it’s neither; Rotting sounds like if Grindcore was regular music.

Fist of all, almost all the songs here are above 2 minutes (with two clocking in over 5!). They all have various sections, with bridges and repeated verses. The drumming has a great amount of variety, rather simple but very effectively utilizing many different beat patterns found in extreme metal. Even the bass is audible! The songs sound like fully constructed and realized passages of music rather than short snippets of maniacal, unrelenting aggression.

Even the tempo is all over the place, with plenty of stereotypical Deathgrind pummeling, but also slow and heavy grooves. This thing has a ton of crushing weight at all times, and that helps it stand out. The bassiness and emphasis on the rhythm section are combined with a dense production job to make this thing feel like an aural slab of concrete. Whereas most Grindcore is manic and fleeting, these songs are a lasting assault, like slowly being beaten to death via a crude battering weapon.

The biggest weakness here is in the guitar riffs. With so much emphasis on the low end of the sound, individual notes can be difficult to discern, and higher notes are pushed way under the wall of sludgy sound. Most of the riffs stick exclusively to a few very low notes, and that makes them quite monotonous. Better lead guitar work would make this a masterpiece in the genre, but unfortunately they fall flat in what is one of the most important aspects of Metal music.
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Track listing (Songs)

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1.Sexually Tortured802
2.Christian Castration751
3.Laid To Rest751
4.Evil I801
5.Blood751
6.Guts751
7.Soulburn751
8.In Vain751
9.Let Them Bleed751
10.Unholy Penetration751
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