Within the Weak and the Wounded

With members of well known underground brutal death bands like Infested, Irate Architect or Awaiting The Autopsy, Corporectomy presents us their debut EP – a great piece of work.
At first lets take a look on the obvious features of the EP. The cover artwork looks great, cool arrangement which remembers me to the tortured souls figure series, but with too little contrast I think. The album title “within the weak and the wounded” sounds not very original to me, but for that the song titles are great. Creative ideas like “Bottom Feeder” or “Born Backwards” make me laugh as hell.

The songs itself are a good mixture of fast and technical brutal death with some mid tempo parts. You won't find too slow breakdowns here, so there are no pauses for getting new breath. The drumming is completely precise and relentless with its blastbeats. The guitar riffing is very catchy and one ear-worm riff follows another. Also the singer does a great job, with brutal deep gargling exhales. There are some background screams, but they're not annoying which, I think, is very important. The whole production quality is very clear and well balanced. You can hear every nuance of the drums, riffing and vocals. Brutal!

A point I want to highlight is the intro sample of the first song. Apart from that the sample is a funny take and fits in, I appreciate it that the band did not overdo it with the samples. One (good) sample in five songs works for me. The other songs mostly start with a catchy straight to the face riff which feels comfortable. You can put the CD in your player, pick one of the songs and you get instantly blasted off the couch by the brutal sound of the instruments and the vocals. Especially the beginning of song four is heavy as fuck!

Which took my attention is, that I often realize guitar riffs which sound very similar to Infested. In my eyes this is great because its a special style of riffing and not very common. This may due to the drummer, which actually is from Infested, haha.

The last song is a little bit more groovy then the rest and also fades out, which makes a good ending for the ep. And this leads me to the only bad thing I have to say about this release: it fucking too short! I think this band has a lot of more potential, so i'll look forward to their first full length!