Godless

I have to say I was pretty focused to listen to the new Fleshgore stuff, since its predecessor "Denial of the Scriptures" (2016) was simply flawless and in my humble opinion it is still the band's best material to date.

The new "Godless" EP features 3 brand new songs plus 2 previously unreleased cover versions. Unfortunately, the new songs did not meet my expectations. First of all, because Fleshgore's own style seemed to finally emerge in the songs of "Denial of the Scriptures", which I was very happy about, but unfortunately they did not continue to do it here.

The new tracks are good and enough technical, but I definitely feel the lack of great ideas, grooves and hooks there. Honestly I've enjoyed only the riff-structures of "Godless", though not entirely, yet that song has some potential, what I cannot say about "Forgiveness" (which generally is a late Morbid Angel plagiarism) and "Lord of the Swine" (where they've hit the worst collection of uninteresting riffs). Sorry, but these two seems rather faceless to me, despite the good sound quality.

Recently the trio has undergone a minor change, thus Ed Litvyakov (of Datura), whose name should sound familiar to the extreme and brutal Death/Grind freaks worldwide, occupied the throne behind the drum kit and did an excellent job, as usual. He played drums on the brand new ones, while his colleague Lev Kurgansky (of Ezophagothomia) crushed the skins in the cover songs: "Immortal Rites" from Morbid Angel and "Despoilment of Rotting Flesh" from Internal Bleeding. Both classics got an awesome interpretation! Besides the aforementioned drummers, longtime member Igor Lystopad makes sure to torn the sickest guitar chords apart and Ruslan Drozd is the one, who is responsible for the low-frequencies and guttural pressures.

The 5-track compact disc has been packed into a tasty digipak with a pure-evil-motivated cover artwork designed by Recrean Azaza!

Originally published at the website of Encomium 'zine.