(written by Islander)
In mid-January we premiered a song from Foetorem’s debut album Incongruous Forms Of Evergrowing Rot, preceded by some thoughts about human beings’ everlasting fear of inescapable death and our persistent nightmares of being buried alive — “in coffins, tombs, or beneath a weight of freshly turned earth, deprived of oxygen, unable to move, and with naught but worms or the natural liquification of flesh eagerly awaiting the heart’s final beat.”
Those thoughts came to mind naturally when reflecting on the music of this Danish death metal band (whose name itself translates to “stench of decay”), because they’re so frighteningly good at rendering musical visions of human pain and putrefaction, so formidable in conjuring ruination, putridity, stench, and the hopelessness of being trapped by the kind of mindless violence from which there’s no escape.
And now here we are, about six weeks later, when across a large swath of the planet body parts are being scattered like dead leaves in a high wind and blood (and missiles) are raining from the skies — a fresh and foreboding reminder about the self-destructive savagery of humanity (as if one were needed). What better time to revisit Foetorem?!?
And that’s what we’re doing through our premiere of another abominable Foetorem song in advance of their album’s March 27 release by Everlasting Spew Records.
The title of today’s new catastrophe (the musical one) is “Rebirth In Morbid Disgust“. It allows no room for even a quick breath but instead immediately discharges a viciously furious churn of abrasive riffing, backed by violently thunderous percussion and spiked by bursts of miserably wailing guitar torture.
Gargantuan roars well up from horrid depths, and as the music slows and staggers the music wails even more miserably. The fretwork also gruesomely contorts, like fat maggots doing their desecrating work.
Relentlessly dynamic, the song accelerates into further eviscerating frenzies of madness and inflicts bouts of clobbering brutality, but the rhythm section also vanishes, to make way for a clear-toned guitar melody whose eerily ringing notes seem to channel a beautiful sorrow. As the roaring vocals go wild, joined by screams, the music also ominously towers, savagely convulses, rams listeners in their skulls, and explodes in blast-beat ferocity.
And so once again, Foetorem demonstrate a striking proficiency in producing horrors of many shapes, and moods of many forms, an experience that’s viscerally hideous, harrowing, and heart-breaking.
LINE-UP:
Claus – Guitar & Vocals
Daniel – Guitar & Vocals
Ric – Bass
Geistaz – Drums
Incongruous Forms Of Evergrowing Rot was recorded, mixed, and produced by Daniel Farre and Claus Andersen, and it was mastered by Dan Lowndes at Resonance Sound Studio. The strikingly ghastly cover art is the work of N. Zuki at Belial NecroArts, and the logo was crafted by Giancarlo Melgar. Album layout by Alice Mingotti and Giorgio Spevo.
Everlasting Spew will release Foetorem’s debut album on CD, cassette tape, and digital formats — and a vinyl edition should be ready by the summer of this year. Physical and digital pre-orders are available at the locations linked below. Everlasting Spew astutely recommends it for fans of Spectral Voice, Krypts, Mortiferum, and Hooded Menace.
PRE-ORDER:
https://everlastingspew.bandcamp.com/album/incongruous-forms-of-evergrowing-rot
https://www.everlastingspew.com
FOETOREM:
https://www.facebook.com/foetorem