| The highly anticipated 2nd full-length by this U.S. band. Hailing from New York, Mutilate are literally a blast from the past. Sounding as if time stopped some 30 years ago, this quartet create crude and rude proto-Death Metal that was only brewed in the darkest dungeons of the underground by the mid 80īs. As such, they aesthetically nod to the likes of Mantas/Death, Nunslaughter, Cancer, Terminal Death, Possessed, Helllhammer, Death Strike and Goatlord. Itīs stripped-down and simple, and unapologetically so, and done with absolute belief and total authenticity. Trend-mongers likely canīt tolerate "Contagium", but Mutilate never made this kind of record -or any record, really- for them. Theirs is a cult, and unselfconsciously so since their "Fortress of suffering" debut 2017 demo. "Contagium" is simply a longer/stronger consolidation of their sound, as it should be. |
