Fleshrot – Demo 2020 (2020)

April 6, 2023

Came for the ass, stayed for the death metal.

NGL that cover art had me immediately checking out this short demo (at just shy of 10 minutes in length). I then promptly forgot about it all under now, so I figured I’d best write up about it.

The intro and outro tracks are absolutely fucking pointless, with respect. What’s the point in pushing a two-track demo to being four tracks if only two of the tracks are actual songs? It adds nothing to proceedings atmospherically, so all-in-all their addition is just a waste of everybody’s time.

Thank fuck then, that the two real songs that make up the “middle” portion of the demo, are actually really fucking good. The production on this thing is incredible for a demo; the bass clanks menacingly underneath a rotting layer of guitars and the drums hold the whole thing together just-about – like a shambling reanimated corpse lunging towards fresh victims.

Good shit. I need to check out the album.