EP REVIEW: Chaotian – Adipocere Feast

Danish Death Metal brutes CHAOTIAN are back with a new EP, preparing for their debut full length. Out now via Extremely Rotten Productions.

Gruesome riffs spew forth to set a doomy and eerie mood of grotesque barbarity as chiming cymbals and drawn out snarls join the murky mix. This is certainly going to be a filth-ridden listen. Picking up into a frenzied storm of viscera, pulverising drums and guitars entwine with the maniacal vocals to conjure a rotten apparition of vile Death Metal from the crypts. Convulsing with a rancid and ferocious brutal attack from the whole band, this is the kind of swampy barbarity that consumes all in its path with fetid riffs and a simplistic yet incredibly effective storm of monstrously heavy material. These two offerings are a pungent example of Denmark’s underground being so rife with excellent bands. Each piece has plenty of variety with the generally mid-tempo material still offering plenty of blasts, drawn-out crawls and totally headbanging-ready grooves.

Cascading offal continues to fire forth as we see no remorse shown by Chaotian, whose two new offering grant us high expectations for their record. The doomy moments drip with that echoing and foreboding energy that the Finnish bands popularised while not remotely straying from the brutish, blundering impact of the EP. The vile apparitions of morbidity are utterly phenomenal in their delivery here, with so much ferocity to back up the atmospherics and pound us into oblivion. A rancid, festering example of true Death Metal brilliance from the belly of the underground.