CORPSING

Civilisation Under Nefarious Tyrants SELF-RELEASED

Raging UK death metal with method and madness

With a title that tells you everything you need to know about where they stand, Corpsing are going straight for every available jugular on their third album. Unsung heroes of the UKDM underground, the Londoners have always had a satisfyingly skewed and snotty edge to their sound, and Civilisation Under Nefarious Tyrants hammers that point home. Rooted in old-school death metal but as wilful and wayward as it gets within such arcane confines, songs like Heart Of Darkness and the self-explanatory Brexshit deliver plenty of headsdown riffing and spinewrenching blasts, but Corpsing are definitely not well men; from jagged shards of Voivod-ian discord and ghoulish, postpunk dirges to excoriating barrages of blackened noise, an irresistible edge of volatile, twitchy-eyed malevolence prevails. Closing track To Thine Own Self is so full of gnarly riffs and mad ideas, it’s disturbing. Which, presumably, was the idea. ■■■■■■■■■■

FOR FANS OF: Akercocke, Deicide, Voivod

DOM LAWSON