MORTUAL - Evil Incarnation - 12" (black)

Mortual formed back in 2017 as they’d stepped away from their previous incarnation (Sepulchrated) while preserving their feral take on speed/thrash metal inspired death metal for the sake of an ‘old school’ death metal result which was authentic in its core statement.

Mortual specializes in exactly the kind of death metal you would play for someone who thought that maybe death metal wasn’t very heavy. I mean, I don’t know what kind of silly geese you hang out with, but if they are that specific kind of silly goose you can say to them, “Hello, silly goose, listen to Mortual, please.”

This demo, though it is clear and perfectly precise, is almost offensively heavy. In this year’s death metal stakes, only Negative Vortex really makes a play for being sonically heavier, but to land that kind of comparison – not to mention plenty of Morbid Angel, Atomic Aggressor, and maybe a bit of Krisiun – is nothing to sneeze at. Did you hear me? Please stop sneezing! I bet that even the pope would stop sneezing when that rumbling midsection in “Dimensional Chaos” pulls back the curtains and lets in a couple of sneaky guitar solos. He would stop sneezing and he would say, “Ay papi, yo soy the pope and these riffs are so greasy it’s like a Lenten fish fry up in here and that’s no papal bull !”