Thursday, April 29, 2021

LAST DAYS OF HUMANITY - The Complicated Reflex and Depraved Scent of the Retrograde Reflux in Formula (2019)

Operating Theatre Depraved Scent

My precious... yes, this is kinda unique in my collection. Released through Bizarre Leprous Production as 3-inch disc, it features six songs clocking in 4:28. It means that Last Days of Humanity infects abdominopelvic cavity of the underground once again. The front cover may mislead: no blood, no cuts, no guts, no decaying human flesh, just one surgeon ready to act (by the way, is this one of the guys from Haemorrhage „Obnoxious” cover?). And writing about it, there's a need to mention 2006 year when their third album „Putrefaction in Progress” has been presented. That year also, the band managed to put instrumental tracks for this Ep and split up eventually. Luckily the break lasted not so long, four years only, the band returned to those songs, remastered them and put vocals lines in 2014.

And there're are no musical surprises as the band still continues extremely insane piece of goregrind. As compared to the mentioned full-length with snare drums overbalance, the Ep has got bass drum advantage in turn. And going forward, sometimes the guitar wall lost its ravaging power. Of course, all served with Hans pipes madness and distorted bass lines. In those putrid two hundred and sixty-eight seconds I got one short opening intro (nine seconds) in first track and great slowdown lasting seven seconds in best „The Dishonourable Features of Rigid Saturation and Cruel Misfortune” (that damn title, prescribing it takes more time than listening to this highlight!), being the longest in the family (1:07) at the same time. In turn track 4 which is the shortest one (0:09) tries to explain that mix of catalepsy and sewage is quite possible. Yep, it's goregrind in full content. And that's all folks, the newest album is on my operating table ready to be dissected.

70/100

-Tlacaxipehualiztli

(written in April, 2021)