On April 21st internationally, Memento Mori and Me Saco Un Ojo Records are proud to present the highly anticipated third album of Finland’s Morbific, ‘Bloom of the Abnormal Flesh’. Memento Mori will handle the CD version while Me Saco Un Ojo will handle the vinyl version.
Finland’s Morbific is a rotten-to-the-core Death Metal trio deformed in the filthy and profaned boneyard of Kitee in early 2020, featuring Olli (guitar), Jusa (vocals/bass), and Onni (drums). The band’s ‘Pestilent Hordes’ demo was unleashed in the summer of 2020, and it rapidly gained them some following amongst the finest gourmets of the variety of festering, moldering, and disgusting Death Metal that’s malignantly influenced by Autopsy, Rottrevore, Deteriorot, Mortician, Grave, Maimed, Undergang, Impetigo, and ancient Finnish masters of death and decay such as Funebre and Disgrace. Shortly after, in the spring of 2021, the debut full-length ‘Ominous Seep of Putridity’ saw the odious light of day to unanimous praise by both the fans and the media. Just a year later – and now aligned with both Memento Mori and Me Saco Un Ojo – Morbific released their second full-length, ‘Squirm Beyond the Mortal Realm’. Aptly titled, the album quickly became a cult favorite of utterly uncomfortable, slimy Death Metal.
Now, Morbific are prepared to eclipse such a sewer-dwelling “highwater”(!) mark with ‘Bloom of the Abnormal Flesh’. Whereas its not-inconsiderable predecessor confronted the listener with a blown-out, almost demo-level feel, the Finns’ third full-length proves that they can move and mesmerize and maim no matter what the soundfield is. And on ‘Bloom of the Abnormal Flesh’, it’s a raw-yet-robust show of strength, “classic” Death Metal production in a most late ’80s fashion; just witness that gurgling, fuzz-tinged bass and feel its radioactive waves envelope you. But production is one thing and songwriting is another, and with the latter, Morbific are truly hitting their stride here. Lumbering and stomping, with well-timed bouts of disgusting gallop or even ragged blasts, their songwriting twists and indeed squirms with off-kilter insanity; some would call it chaos, if not for the exceptionally tight musicianship on display here, with the sum result being an uncomfortableness that bubbles up from a deeper gutter. Thankfully, ‘Bloom of the Abnormal Flesh’ conveys its dark, disgusting, and unconventional aura across every element – said chops simply heighten these sensations – and is, thus far, Morbific’s best melding of form and content.
Cro-Magnon as ever but somehow enlightened in the creepiest sense possible, Morbific continue their reputation as Finland’s filthiest and Death Metal’s untrendiest weirdoes. Vividly captured by Chase Slaker’s cover artwork, ‘Bloom of the Abnormal Flesh’ is the foulest stench only for the brave!
