Band: Necrovorous
Title: Funeral For The Sane
Label: Pulverised Records
Distribution: Pulverised Records
Release date: June 6th 2011
Review: CD

Greek Death-horde Necrovorous were formed in 2005 by Shiteater and Pigfucker. The first demos brought a gore and smelly form of Splatter-Death, and after the split with Meathole Infection things went silent for a while. Currently Shiteater does work with Archfiend DevilPig (as from 2009), he’s also in Embrace Of Thorns and he owns Kill Yourself Productions. For a while he was joined by two session musicians, Grave Defiler and Soul Extractor, who helped him out on this debut record. The newer approach is more sinister / ominous and less gore, even though the sound remains as filthy and putrefying as before.
The official full length debut, called Funeral For The Sane, lasts for thirty nine minutes and was recorded at Feedback Studio with producer / engineer Harry Zourelides (you might know him from his collaboration with Embrace Of Thorns or his studio duties for the Nuclear War Now! Festival Compilation-CD/LP). It’s comparable to the former efforts, yet also very different. A few moments are shamelessly grinding with the most morbid approach, Blast-madness from the deadliest kind. Yet more than before, this recording consists of magisterial slower parts. These ones certainly are not ‘softer’, but they bring a renewed form of obscurity within their necrotic terror. This, yet not only this difference in tempo, makes it the most diverse Necrovorous-recording to date. Much other elements too need attention: the ominous, Doom-laden song structures, the filthy yet magisterial sound, there are many levels this time.
A name that sometimes comes to mind is Impending Doom, yet the very early Swedish scene must have been a major influence too this time (!)... …besides the old Greek scene, of course – think earliest Rotting Christ, Horrified or Disharmony… …and mixed with some sweetness once created by fine acts like Bolt Thrower, Bloodbath, Autopsy, Mantas / Death, Impetigo and Asphyx…
This recording is, without any doubt, the most diversified yet also the most sinister, oppressing and grim Necrovorous-effort to date! Sublime!

90/100

Ivan Tibos.