A huge steel girder engraved with the word ‘Foetorem’ collides with your top lip, subsequently dislodging your upper incisors and rendering you unconscious. Profuse bleeding begins, and your spasming frail carcass lies supine on the ground with several neck vertebrae dislocated. How did the steel taste? I mean this in regards to the cold metallic violent dentistry of Foetorem’s Demo tape that was released last year. Three tracks of delightfully violent carnage that serve as the first musical offering from this Danish Death Metal quartet.
Opening this short maelstrom is ‘Peeled Face Mask’, a track that orbits its rhythmically charged, triplet-chug central riff with gargantuan aplomb. The song features a gruff misanthropy à la Immolation and leaves its foot firmly upon the acceleration pedal of intensity until its latter climax. The end moments of the song are awash in grimy melodic lead lines and malicious-sounding demented percussion. The second track is ‘Oozing With Pustulent Fluids’ where the guitar performances are equally as nasty. It’s another rhythmically blooded monster and I love the creeping breakdown in its midsection.
The dual guitars and muscular vocal deliveries of both Claus Andersen and Daniel Fare imbue these songs with a testosterone-injected Wrath. This is also bolstered by the cutting and slithering bass performances of Ric Goldschmidt. The demo closes with ‘Tapestries Of Misery’, which starts with a climactic-minded piano opening. The guitars announce the song with some tension-inducing power-chordal work before the song gets off to a more rolling tempo. It is as if some sort of giant intergalactic space worm is making easy work of decimating a helpless planet and leaving an asteroid field in its wake. The final third of the song condenses the instrumentation to an anticipatory guitar lick before the full band reappears to commit another bout of audible arson.
This band is off to a rather flying start with this demo tape. It’s a blunt trio of furious Death Metal tracks. Incredibly angry-sounding, and the whole band puts in some great performances. Just like that aforementioned worm, it leaves me insatiably hungry for more.
