The twitching skeletal monuments belonging to two half-decomposed Death Metal slaughterhouses have been conjoined by the exposed rib bones for a regurgitated two-track split release. Austin, Texas’ undead outfit; Corpus Offal, whose 2025 self-titled debut album I also reviewed for VM Underground, has crossed bloodied palms with Copenhagen’s face-liquifying quartet, Undergang. Each band has contributed a single track to this short, concise, and bludgeoning release.
Opening this maelstrom of burning stomach acid is Corpus Offal with the track ‘Epitomic Disembowelment’. The song is a drool-mouthed, claustrophobic cut of gutter-dwelling filth, where gurgled vocals spew forward whilst thick, woozy, subterranean guitars threaten to expel the half-formed faeces out of your intestines. The composition of this squelching beast sounds as if it wants to forcefully pull you down with it into a suffocating realm of unimaginably bad putrefactive stenches. The song’s final third is a satisfyingly crushing way to end this particularly depraved track, and it trudges along to an invigorated progression. Undergang provides the second round with ‘Maddikehavets Dans’ (Dance Of The Sea Of Maggots). The song opens to some body horror movie-esque soundplay, replete with gurgling noises, distressed screaming, and what sounds like a post-human transition into monster form. Monolithic guitar power chords then announce the waking of this cesspit-dwelling anomaly. Ian Schwab’s vocals on the track inhabit a devilish dance between earth-shaking lows and higher-pitched undead wretches. The song progresses through various sections of extremely heavy and doomy pungence, and the bassline right before the song’s massive closing moments is a patch of sheer vile funk.
Merging together in the most disgusting, rancid, and sickening of ways, the two bands here are practically made for one another. Both tracks offer no restraint, and this release is twelve minutes of disorientating Gore Metal glory. For fans of Last Days of Humanity, Viscera Infest, Exhumed, early Carcass, and Mortician.
