AUTOPSY
TOURNIQUETS, HACKSAWS AND GRAVES
After tearing back onto the scene in 2011 with the sadistically stunning, "Macabre Eternal", Autopsy have been dropping spectacular albums faster than a body decomposes in a desert. Following up 2013's "The Headless Ritual", Autopsy's latest and greatest offering, "Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves", is a die-hard pleasing lesson in old-school Death-Metal, oozing with all the grotesque lyrics and filthy riffs you would expect from these legendary pioneers, and more.
Musically, "Tourniquets,..." is very much a continuation of its full-length predecessor, although slightly more refined and direct. As is the Autopsy tradition, a wide spectrum of tempos and pace changes gives these songs a distinct memorability. Opening track "Savagery", is a short sharp shock to the system, bringing the speed and introducing the album like a hatchet to the face. Again, the Autopsy tempo changing tradition remains true as the speed drops away halfway through second track, "King Of Flesh Ripped", leaving a slower, more Death-Doom sound with thick swamp-consistency tones. More Zombie-crawling pace tracks emerge as the album progresses ("After The Cutting", "Teeth Of The Shadow Horde" and "Deep Crimson Dreaming"), before culminating in one of the sludgiest, most hypnotically melodic and macabre tracks of all time. The heavier than imaginable, "Burial", packs a punch like only Autopsy can, but with an even slower and even more crushingly weighty, almost Triptykon-esque sound. The perfect prelude it seems to the closing track. A career spanning medley of Death-Metal sounds and styles, "Autopsy" certainly lives up to its name, and well beyond.
Existing Autopsy fans will feel right at home with "Tourniquets,..", and the album will certainly go a long way to bolstering Autopsy's already impressive Death legacy. Chris Reifert's vocals are as savage as ever, musically the band are on superb form, displaying some of the greatest riffs and most powerful bass work around. Ultimately, "Tourniquets,.." is a powerful performance by a band that clearly have a lot left to show the world, and at their rate it wont be long before they give us our next lesson. Fingers crossed.
Musically, "Tourniquets,..." is very much a continuation of its full-length predecessor, although slightly more refined and direct. As is the Autopsy tradition, a wide spectrum of tempos and pace changes gives these songs a distinct memorability. Opening track "Savagery", is a short sharp shock to the system, bringing the speed and introducing the album like a hatchet to the face. Again, the Autopsy tempo changing tradition remains true as the speed drops away halfway through second track, "King Of Flesh Ripped", leaving a slower, more Death-Doom sound with thick swamp-consistency tones. More Zombie-crawling pace tracks emerge as the album progresses ("After The Cutting", "Teeth Of The Shadow Horde" and "Deep Crimson Dreaming"), before culminating in one of the sludgiest, most hypnotically melodic and macabre tracks of all time. The heavier than imaginable, "Burial", packs a punch like only Autopsy can, but with an even slower and even more crushingly weighty, almost Triptykon-esque sound. The perfect prelude it seems to the closing track. A career spanning medley of Death-Metal sounds and styles, "Autopsy" certainly lives up to its name, and well beyond.
Existing Autopsy fans will feel right at home with "Tourniquets,..", and the album will certainly go a long way to bolstering Autopsy's already impressive Death legacy. Chris Reifert's vocals are as savage as ever, musically the band are on superb form, displaying some of the greatest riffs and most powerful bass work around. Ultimately, "Tourniquets,.." is a powerful performance by a band that clearly have a lot left to show the world, and at their rate it wont be long before they give us our next lesson. Fingers crossed.
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