Band: Flesh

Title: Worship The Soul Of Disgust

Label: Pulverised Records

Distribution: Sure Shot Worx

Release date: 28/04/2008

Review: CD

Former Deceiver member Pete Flesh (who is also ex-member of Maze Of Torment, the guy behind Thrown and the one who did restart Deceiver very recently - the latter will release some new material soon through Pulverised) started this project at the end of the former millennium with the goal to create something he had not been doing yet in his former bands. With session assistance on drums by his former Deceiver colleague Flingan, he released two albums on the now defunct label Iron Fist Productions, Dodsangest and Temple Of Whores (both of them re-issued by Pulverised). Again recorded at the Abyss Studio with Tommy Tägtgren, Worship The Soul Of Disgust may be the strongest, most powerful and, certainly, most overwhelming Flesh album to date. For more than forty minutes, this recording stands for mostly mid- to up-tempo old school Death Metal, having many slow pieces and a few lightning-fast ones. Pete 's grunts are very, very brutal, deep and filthy, and this also goes for both the instruments and the sound. In a way, therefore the whole reminds me a lot to the American kult-formation Goatlord (!), especially the slower pieces. The morbid, somewhat underground-oriented hymns indeed are nasty, rough, trashy, raw and in a way extremely horrific. Besides, Flesh's music isn't that un-original, even though I must certainly think about several Swedish old style bands by, for example, Dan Swanö, Nicklas Rudolfsson, Rogga Johansson or Robban Karlsson. Don't expect technical experiences, don't expect a clean production, don't expect any mathematic solo, because this album is so intelligent in its simplicity! Bestial superiority with an old school spirit!

88/100

Ivan Tibos.