ENGORGEMENT to release "THEY ROT BENEATH OUR FLOOR"
- Jason Hesley
- 2 hours ago
- 2 min read
The night’s work is done. He stands in silence, the sweat of exertion mingling with the blood that coats his face, hands and clothes. The passion, the anger, the lust and the excitement has all drained away, like pus from a lanced boil. It’s time to lift the floorboards and open the mausoleum…time to tip the latest faceless bundle of guts and gore, bone, bile and bruised flesh into the darkness; there to lie in the stench and the rot, in quiet communion with those who have gone before. At least she won’t be alone. They have each other…and the worms.
More than thirteen years on from the release of their horrifying debut album, Excruciating Intestinal Lacerations, the UK’s heaviest and sickest exponents of shocking brutality are back with a new assault on morality, enlightenment and good taste… Engorgement have returned, with They Rot Beneath Our Floor!
The nightmare begins with ‘Prelude To Your Dismemberment’, which leads us down a spiral staircase into darkness. We know that nothing good awaits us in that impenetrable murk, but locked in the dream sequence we cannot stop our descent…and as we reach the bottom step the world explodes. ‘Keep Festering’ erupts like a spray of arterial blood – pain, violence, animalistic vocals over bludgeoning riffs and mercilessly methodical drums. ‘Rot Beneath Our Floor’ follows with cataclysmic blasts, sluggish crawls through offal and deliberate, punching riffs – the different stages of slaughter and dissection delivered with a thrilling intensity. There’s no let up in this massacre, no islands of peace in the sea of carnage. ‘Watching Your Body Twitch’ delivers deep, deep grooves like hatchet wounds cut right to the bone, while the drum beats in ‘Resurrection’ fall with imperious, bone-breaking force. ‘Blunt Force Osteotomy’ leads us to the final exit – punishing to the last breath, to the last guttural exhortation of hate.
Nobody understands brutal death metal better than Floor Van Kuijk of Korpse, Sijjeel, Carnifloor and many more – and the Dutchman has mixed and mastered They Rot Beneath Our Floor at his GLDCHN Studios (Virulent Excision, Parasitic Infestation, Crimson Butchery etc). The results are gloriously repugnant - raw, bloody and pustulent beyond belief. Complete with suitably sickening artwork from Christian Castro, Engorgement’s new testament to mankind’s inhumanity will be unleashed by Comatose Music on March 20th. Your journey into the heart of darkness starts here…
