{"id":3418,"date":"2025-07-17T18:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/3418\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T18:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:10:08","slug":"re-buried-flesh-mourning-bandcamp-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/3418\/","title":{"rendered":"Re-Buried, \u201cFlesh Mourning\u201d | Bandcamp Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALBUM OF THE DAY<\/a><\/p>\n

Re-Buried, \u201cFlesh Mourning\u201d<\/p>\n

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Brad Sanders<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n July 17, 2025<\/p>\n

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The old-school death metal revival has been around for a lot longer than the movement it initially set out to revive. It\u2019s been 25 years since members of Opeth<\/a> and Katatonia<\/a> started to fool around with the genre\u2019s ancient texts, launching Bloodbath<\/a> as perhaps the first band to explicitly bill itself as an homage to the early death metal era. When Bloodbath\u2019s Breeding Death<\/a> dropped in 2000, death metal was near its commercial nadir, and the idea of lovingly ripping off Entombed<\/a> and Morbid Angel<\/a> felt quaint and possibly ill-advised. Today, OSDM revivalism makes up a formidable corner of the metal marketplace. Onetime obscurities like Internal Bleeding<\/a> and Demilich<\/a> have become unwitting founders of whole cottage industries of worship acts. We\u2019re living in an endless death metal revival, with hundreds of neo-practitioners for each originalist.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the world that Re-Buried\u2019s Flesh Mourning <\/a>has been born screaming into\u2014a world that\u2019s already heard old Autopsy<\/a> and Incantation<\/a> riffs recombined six ways to Sunday. The only way to cut through that much noise is with sheer conviction, and fortunately, the Seattle band has that in spades. There isn\u2019t much on the Greg Wilkinson-mixed Flesh Mourning that you haven\u2019t heard a version of before, but Re-Buried play everything here with an admirable gusto that consistently pushes the material beyond OSDM\u2019s mediocre median.<\/p>\n

Alex Bytner (ex-Un<\/a>) injects a little swing into his drum performance, a mercy in a genre that tends toward locked-to-a-grid perfection. Guitarists Eddie Bingaman and Paul Richards trade quirky, harmonics-laced riffs and barrel-chested doom progressions with equal aplomb, and Richards\u2019s expressive (but never flashy) lead work adds the much-needed color to the band\u2019s chiaroscuro canvas. Richards is also responsible for Flesh Mourning\u2019s surprising Wurlitzer parts, which are a boon to the album\u2019s creaking atmosphere; the end of \u201cJagged Psyche\u201d sounds like a haunted carnival sinking into a swamp.<\/p>\n

Most notable is the addition of vocalist Chris Pinto (also of F\u00d3RN<\/a>), who took over for the departing Matthew Chandler shortly after Chandler recorded his parts for 2023\u2019s Repulsive Nature<\/a>. Pinto understands the value of a death metal singer who can make truly disgusting sounds with his throat, and he sets out to make as many of them as possible over Flesh Mourning\u2019s runtime. There\u2019s a long one toward the end of death-doom crusher \u201cPutridity in Existence\u201d that I can only transcribe as \u201cbleeeeaaaahhhhoooouuggh.\u201d It sounds gross; it feels good.<\/p>\n

One of Re-Buried\u2019s boldest moves on Flesh Mourning is ending it with a gorgeous, atmospheric instrumental, \u201cCold Blood.\u201d With little more than Wurlitzer, tinkling chimes, and aching, melodic guitar, the band adds a canny postscript to an album that, up until that point, was mostly concerned with bludgeoning the listener into submission. It works far better than it should, and it reveals Re-Buried as a band devoted to its sonic lineage but willing to prod at its boundaries.<\/p>\n

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