Artist: Fetid Zombie
Title: Abort the Messiah
Type: EP
Label: Metalhit.com
Mark Riddick regularly symbolizes brutal death metal’s cover artwork and t-shirt designs in general. ‘Fetid Zombie’ is his baby when it comes to music. This one-man army of gore and hatred preaches to us kind souls in a way that definitely makes you take notice. ‘Ride the Goat to Jerusalem’ is a fine tune, brutally precise, whilst the EP title track really shows up the sound of a drum machine too much for me, it’s hard to keep track there is so much crazy stuff happening. ‘Citadel of Sickness’ has a very nice little solo, whilst latter parts of the verse make you think melody-wise of Megadeth’s Wake Up Dead, but this then falls respectfully in the Swedish powerhouse death metal arena, a mid paced killing machine. That is basically the whole feel of the EP, once the blastbeats are gone, you are left with a bestial sounding death metal track that pays homage to Sweden and to Norway with some black metal influences and rasps thrown in just to make things interesting.
As EP’s go, this is a nice deal, but I would recommend ‘Fetid Zombies’ full-length album ‘Pleasures of the Scalpel’ that was released prior to this EP. The only other thing to mention about this EP release that it’s primarily a digital download (which is ridiculously cheap too). Maybe the way to go for the modern age, but I still miss the CD packaging. But back to the music, Mark Riddick and his ‘Fetid Zombie’ have provided us with a sick and twisted EP, check this out; you simply have no excuse not too.
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Paul Maddison
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