Review by Sandre the Giant
I don’t know what is more immediately arresting about Dead and Dripping; their gross name or their intensely purple Lovecraftian psychedelia album artwork. Dead and Dripping is the work of Evan Daniele, who handles all instruments and vocals on ‘Blackened Cerebral Rifts’, a work of brutal death metal chaos out in July through Transcending Obscurity.
Each track is an increasingly chaotic and stormy blast of technical, brutal death metal. Imagine prime Dying Fetus and Suffocation, with more than a hint of your more modern tech death wizards like The Faceless or Beneath the Massacre. What you do get from Dead and Dripping is a real sense of murk and weight though. Tracks like ‘Tragic Ascent of Absurdity’s Pale Moon’ and ‘Infinitely Plummeting into Violet Portals of Delusion’ aren’t just your sleek, clean technical showcases, nor one note gurgling chugfests. ‘Aural Interference With Uncanny Subconscious Frequencies’ brings these elements together so well, taking the best bits from both and leaving the more tedious bits in the dust. It surges and swerves, almost Meshuggah-like time signatures rumbling underneath sickening heaviness. ‘Hopeless Desire for Reprieve’ is one of the most apt titles for a song ever, because it has got to be one of the most unsettling interlude pieces I’ve come across in a long time. ‘Molecular Degradation Upon Warped Onyx Stoves’ is full of big, cosmos distending riffs that bend and warp over a chaotic and increaingly manic drumming performance. Vocally we’ve started to really delve into deeper and deeper gutturals as we’ve gone through, the whole album gradually descending further and further into the chasmic void.
‘Blackened Cerebral Rifts’ is a mighty slab of prime brutality; a heady combination of ugly, guttural death metal and a dense miasma of technical musicianship. Dissonant and layered with multitudes of heaviness, Dead and Dripping have crafted an impressively heavy and engrossing record. I shouldn’t be too surprised though, given their current label being a perfect fit for just such abyssal depravity. Recommended.
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