Storming the Princeton-Plainsboro Mortuary
Fuck the
Commerce – this legendary live show was the place I bought the „Morgue Sweet
Home” cd album, another collection of nice and pleasant offal in Haemorrhage
career. After four long years of releasing excellent gore slab “Anatomical
Inferno” and several smaller desserts, crazy Spaniards managed to decompose and
record the next portion of gorgeous main dish once again. The main question is:
did Luisma and company maintain the masterly level of the predecessor? All
right, let’s back from inferno to the morgue…
In this
case Haemorrhage repeated the number of decompositions. For the start one thing
is sure as shooting: the music style is still the same, but comparing to the
previous album, there are more faster tempos I guess. Speed is one thing, but
the production is also important. Here I must confess it isn’t as good work as
killing tunes of the third album. Maybe Haemorrhage knowingly decided about
such production, but in my opinion everything is untidy with poor realization
of drum work, the powerful and more devastating sound is essential condition:
drums simply disappear during guitars hurricane. I wrote about untidiness in
production, however it is not a drawback. “Morgue” has a special charm for sure
and everything reminds me old-school grindcore/death metal releases. Also
structures of the songs are different here, because these incredible memorable
catchy guitar riffs known from “Anatomical Inferno” are gone almost entirely.
Of course I didn’t expect songs for Eurovision, but this time music of
Haemorrhage is like a trance. Pathological trance… To continue writing about ‘new’ elements I
have to point out on song number thirteen. I will write about this later. Vo-kills
of Lugubrious didn’t change as well his “singing” is a real accomplishment in
this gore sauce.
Mesmerized
by the stench of rot… Yes, I wrote about this trance which is strengthened by
wild and butcherly production. Fortunately music doesn’t take the listener to
the kingdom of boredom, which is the first advantage. The musicians skillfully
use tempo changes from blast to slowdowns tunes. Even I didn’t find here such
highlight tracks like “Enshrouded in Putrilage”, “Putritorium” or “Set the
Morgue on Fire”, however I can say there are some songs worthy of note. The
first killer, prefaced by short intro in extremely gore vein, called “Mortuary
Riot” is the essence what I expect here to listen to. Some mid-tempo on the start
and after seventy seconds the surgery begins. Simply I call this not other than
sonic devastation of the blood vascular system. Yes, definitely special feeling
on the beginning… The music able to stir the listener’s blood… What do I want
more? Only next sonic hurricane: its name “Oozing Molten Gristle” – this is
standard, typical stuff coming from this performance, so only pure gore grind
ravage runs from my speakers out! The next third track is probably in the same
vein like “I’m a Pathologist” from the previous album. I mean the next ‘creed’
of the band. “Midnight Mortician” is the name of this decomposition which
brings another pleasant moment of morbid rapture. In turn “Exhuming Impulse” is
characterized by very interesting group of riffs and fine slowdowns just like
the next “Unlock the Morgue” is like a trip to old Swedish stuff, this
atmosphere, this guitar work… Listening carefully to this stuff I can assure
that the end of the album has two faces. So as the first is excellent, the
second is rather not thought out in my opinion. All right, let’s start to get
to know the first one: it is begun by “The Forensic Requiems” which lasts five
minutes. Can you believe it? It is not a ballad with clean vocals of course,
listening to the guitar work one term comes to my mind: Sweden and their
excellent bands from the beginning of the nineties, from the other hand this
track is correct for “Anatomical Inferno”. This song is put together with the
next instrumental “Dirge for the Sick” which is simply a tribute for the
old-school Swedish bands like Gorement or Dismember. The dirge is closed up by
rain and thunder sounds, really good work on the end of the album. On the end?
No, because there is one more track “Intravenous Molestation on Obstructionist
Arteries (O-pus IV)”. By the way, truly beautiful title, but I have one
question for the band: why did you put this song here? In my opinion it
disturbs doubtless sick yet enjoyable atmosphere from “The Forensic Requiems”
/”Dirge for the Sick”. Look out for “Emetic Cult”, “Grume” and the next album
“Apology for Pathology” - “Intravenous Molestation…” is placed in the middle of
these albums and it really works. So, as you probably understand, this is the
second rotten face, the worse face.
To sum all
the things up, “Morgue Sweet Home” isn’t album as good as “Anatomical Inferno”
and two next releases (“Apology”, “Hospital Carnage”). But one thing is sure:
it still kicks my goregrind ass and I won’t call it bad or weak album. No! It
has its own pathological (as always!) charm, for sure there is more omnipresent
dirt at expense of anatomical harshness or rawness. Of course, for the modern
believers of sterile productions this album is like a week in Justin Bieber’s
life without a hairstylist. As compared with Haemorrhage third album, sometimes
my thoughts run into old Swedish bands which I treat as another advantage. So everything
seems to be just great, but… there is only one anxiety… there, deep in the
dark, one person is lurking… his name… Dr. Obnoxious, surgeon of the dead…
Watch it!!!
90/100
-Tlacaxipehualiztli
(previously written for Encyclopaedia Metallum, on October, 2011, now modified a bit)
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