"Twisted Mass of Burnt Decay" 2:15: 2. Cheap camera’s and locations, lot’s of screams, interestingly coloured sauces but it magically works. This progressivism rapes the album everywhere, the band taking the long winded route, but keeping the songs short so we are left with works of no real substance. 'Bonesaw' does something entirely different with its rampaging pace functioning as something akin to a chase scene through a ruinous house; the killer always gets what he wants. In terms of each individual’s performance, pretty much every nail is hit well on the head an excess of times. Auch Wolf Hoffmann hat seine Erfahrungen in dieser Hinsicht gemacht, und selbst ACCEPT haben Alben im Giftschrank, die heute keinen mehr interessieren. I hate how at the very end of this album, they don't just combine "Dark Crusade" and "Mental Funeral" into one track called "Dark Crusade/Mental Funeral," or maybe "Dark Crusade." There are plenty of mesmerizing back and forth higher noted interlude like pieces, where the hi-hat will count off or use the tom drums as a ritualistic technique. The slower, doomier approach they took on "Mental Funeral" (great title, IMO) makes the faster songs and parts feel more brutal and relentless. Sure, there might be something like that at the beginning to set to the tone of the film, but after that there's a massive tension drop to introduce the story setting and the characters to make the audience care about them. But no, the band must've taken lessons or something because they became hellbent on more prog. Line-Up: Chris Reifert – Schlagzeug, Gesang Eric Cutler – Gitarre Danny Coralles – Gitarre Steve Cutler – Bass. Well take the lead, and look up their early killing sprees. , URFAUST Their albums sound like they're decaying as time goes on, each record less polished than the last. Natürlich wirken diese Einfälle nur, weil die Musik so makellos gut ist. No matter which way I slice it... it seems to be that this album just possesses some superlative quality to it. It's one of those rare records, that "works" every time. Quite possibly the best Autopsy album, this is, of all the albums they made, this is where they hit their peak and stride and really started killing all their path. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2017 Gatefold Vinyl release of Mental Funeral on Discogs. Not that Mental Funeral is necessarily innovative on its own, but the grimy production was quite a novelty in its day. This album is almost two decades old, and it still mops the floor with all other death metal released in the succeeding years. What met my ears when I first listened to it was quite slow, doomy(still with fast parts in it of course) and uncomplicated death metal, that had serious groove and a "we´re death metal, go to hell!"-attitude. The production captured here is brilliant: the first opening notes of “Twisted Mass of Burnt Decay” exude heaviness through the fuzzy, distorted death of a guitar sound, as well as the low-tuned bass guitars and megaheavy, skin snapping drum performance by front man Chris Reifert. Mental Funeral pervades the deepest trenches of the human mind, bringing to light hideous, gruesome thoughts every modern citizen wishes to calmly placate and never admit exist. (06:59) Torn from the Womb05. "Dead" might as well be a mere instrumental for all the few vocal lines we are granted, but it's another slow, methodic crusher. AUTOPSY haben auf „Mental Funeral“ entdeckt, wie schwer und zermürbend, wie erdrückend und düster ein Riff sein kann, wenn man es kriechend langsam spielt. Review Autopsy The Tomb Within. Feel free to mail me about the exceptions in today’s world, for I am too sick of contemporary death metal to actively keep following it any more. Though the solos are very fast, somewhat sloppy and come when you’re least prepared, they don’t sound like chromatic nonsense or random notes taken from basic scales. This aesthetic is actually taken one further with "Hole in the Head", one of my favorite Autopsy tracks hand down for its swaggering, restless melodies. However, the rest of the band delivers on the conviction front as well, with Eric Cutler and Danny Coralles especially shining in that deliciously necro manner years before that term was coined. Autopsy were always unique. Which had a much thicker death metal sound, and some of these bands were dropping 80's thrash influences as well. Bassist Steve Cutler has a few highlighted moments in “Torn From the Womb” and “Destined to Fester”, and the generally low-tuned sound of the strings in all Autopsy releases is ideally displayed on this album. A corpulent man shifting bodies through the snow in some midwestern frozen hell. Discover releases, reviews, credits, songs, and more about Autopsy - Mental Funeral at Discogs. Slow, melodic and with spoken words. Always. Culter shines on some nice breaks on, "Torn from the Womb" and "Destined to Fester" that bring a dramatic suspense to the songs. Mental Funeral is a grisly incantation of carnal death and doom that marks the pinnacle of their career, and while it's perhaps not the most perfect of albums I've heard, it's consistent with the debut while at the same time surpassing it. It's like a mix of classic rock with jazz and death metal. And it's not only impressive that he has this range, but that he does both very well. Review zu Autopsy - The Headless Ritual. Refer to "Robbing The Grave", "Slaughterday" (the music anyway), "Twisted Mass of Burnt Decay", and "Dark Crusade", among others, for highlghts. This was ’91 of course and all death metal bands were still in great form those days (except Obituary that is) Mal offerieren die Gitarren die Widerhaken wie in ´Madness (Finds A Way)´ (you bet!) Their tone is crushingly heavy but still being clean enough to make out what is being played which is a feature of this album that makes it so great. While shadowing at a hospital, I met the parents of an infant unlucky enough to be born with gastroschisis, and they told me horrific experience that their childbirth was: all of the simultaneous greatness and disgust the miracle of birth already provides, combined with the heartbreak and intense worry of your child’s safety due to its organs being strewn about while it is delivered from the womb. Rated #9 in the best albums of 1991, and #736 of all-time album.. The best part about this album is that you get all of this without the Scott Burns production that seemed to permeate most death metal around this time. Screw the critics. You really can't stay indifferent to the last minute of In the Grip of Winter up to and including Torn From the Womb. (RH 281, 2010), SWEET OBLIVION FEAT. VILE 25CD; CD). Gemeinsam mit dem ehemaligen Glenn-Hughes-Drummer Markus Kullman übrigens, was Mastermind und Gitarrist Alex Beyrodt prompt für eine dezente stilistische Kurskorrektur genutzt hat. The thing that drew me to this album was how unrestrained the music is, but also how patient it is. They also probably had the resources to sound as technical, deep and brutal, or polished and sterile as they wanted, but opted to keep their sound as raw and non-conformed as possible. And all this is just plain old heavy metal and hard rock. Tracklist: 01. The end of it provides a huge amount of emotion and energy with a wild chaotic guitar solo... the build-up is perfect. On the other hand, the excellent closer “Dark Crusade” is bookended by the fast, violent and furious “Bonesaw” and the morbid and macabre title track, which flawlessly uses Autopsy unique sense of melody to end this gory, bloody masterpiece of death metal. After releasing their debut, Autopsy seemed to have reached their prime rather quickly. Autopsy has been a band that often has a horror-like edge associated to their music. There are Cannibal Corpse albums less disturbing than this. 5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars. Type: Full-length Release date: April 22nd, 1991 Catalog ID: VILE 25CD / VILE 25 CD Label: Peaceville Records Format: CD Reviews: 18 reviews (avg. First of all, it's not your typical death metal release. In it Gary saw a disfigured face. The end result is a mixture of vastly different bits and pieces well forged together: for example, the 35-second guitar-only interlude Fleshcrawl is a perfect way to both deliver a little pause from the brutality that preceded it and also lead into the next piece of dismal suffering. Anthropological, metallurgical studies can often reveal interesting traits that slipped through my attention, and one of these is to observe trends within particular movements and scenes. So by the time Mental Funeral came out I bought it blindly. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2003 CD release of Mental Funeral on Discogs. 0 Comment Report abuse Freddy Castro. This is certainly one of the more overtly melodic death metal albums I know, it almost makes me wonder what would have happened if the Swedes took more influence from doom metal and decided to write fewer, Maiden-gone-trite melodies. Perhaps it’s the product of imagination of a serial killer, or maybe it’s borne of some Lovecraftian interdimensional time warp phooey. Tracks are very different, yet all retain a doom-y nature to them. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. Most metal songs and albums, if they do convey a feeling of horror, manage to feel more like horror trailers than actual films; intense sequences designed to bait the audience into wanting the full feature. There's the moderately interesting title track, which I do believe is a pretty sweet acoustic closer, but other than that they're just unnecessary, breaking up the pace which I'd need to be more interested in this album. There are short songs that last less than a minute that help space out the album, as well as passages in the music that slow the album down to a speed that is soft on the ears. From the fast-paced and quickly performed "Twisted Mass of Burnt Decay" to the sludgy and doom-laden "Torn From the Womb", there's something for everyone. It gets better and better as the years pass, and if you consider yourself any kind of a fan of Death Fucking Metal, but don’t possess any Autopsy, you fail. One of my personal favorite riffs (and in fact maybe my favorite death metal riff ever) is the riff during the middle section of "Robbing the Grave". Like the character Two-Face from Batman. , MARDUK He still uses a constant playing style with limited breaks. What's more is the band approach instrumentals in an unusual manner, as well. No, this album has an atmosphere to it. Fleshcrawl 04. "Twisted Mass of Burnt Decay" is a writhing, hardcore/death pounder in the vein of Sweden's Entombed, while "In the Grip of Winter" expands upon the doom and groove of the previous year's EP Retribution for the Dead, possessed of some evil, repulsive morbidity to die for. Als Bonustrack hat man noch 'Krieg kennt keine Sieger' von Saltatio Mortis (!) The interlude song "Fleshcrawl" and its evolution into the intro of "Torn From the Womb" is a perfect example of this evil sound. einen eigenen Stempel aufgedrückt. But Reifert’s vocals really take the gore-frosted cake here: the man has a sick, sick growl that makes me feel diseased just hearing him. But pretty much this whole album comes highly recommended, it's that damned good. Auweia - 'ne zwiespältige Sache, die neue AUTOPSY-LP. It isn't really anything special but brings along some great vocal lines on "Twisted Mass of Burnt Decay and "In the Grip of Winter". Mich persönlich erfasste die Euphorie eher weniger, „Mental Funeral“, klar, ein cooles Album, aber auch nicht DER Grund, sich mit vollster Hingabe mit der Band zu beschäftigen. Tempo is cut and instead replaced with the most evil-sounding riffing in existence. Though I never thought of it as a classic. One has to feel the beauty of second rate horror movies. Gut klingt diese Langrille eigentlich immer nur dann, wenn AUTOPSY zu den schnellen Passagen übergehen, denn da liegt die eigentliche Stärke der Jungs. Sure, the rest of the song brilliantly executes the expected permutations of their “slow/midpaced/fast/DEATHLY HEAVY” formula like most others do, but that lovely guitar lick makes the song particularly notable; why… it almost sounds happy. Mental Funeral is an apt title for an album that really plumbs the terrifying psychological depths in a way that most other DM bands just don’t manage to do. Man muss gut auch einfach mal gut sein lassen. The organic sound of "Mental Funeral" adds to its deathly atmosphere, you can almost smell the coffin stench when listening to it. I imagine this is probably the favourite record of your favourite death metal band. The songs don't all mash together in one blur of music that occasionally has a riff that stands out among the chaos. A slow, faintly interesting bridge/breakdown leads back to the same old shit as a finale, then the album;s done pretty much. Even though anyone with ears worth their salt loves Autopsy, it's safe to say that a fair few people - even those who were death metal fans otherwise -​would have listened to this and have thought "What the hell is wrong with these sickos?".