Review: Cryptworm ‘Infectious Pathological Waste’
A thin emerald mist seeps out of a pile of pustulant, bloated corpses, all of which have been heavily experimented upon. The mist twists and turns like it’s sentient and penetrates every pore and orifice of your body, slowly taking over and forcing you into an inert and insatiable rage that can’t be satisfied. Welcome to the rotting death metal mess that is Infectious Pathological Wastefrom UK death metal horde Cryptworm.
This gurgling slab of savagery has kindly been released upon the world by the excellent Me Saco Un Ojo and Extremely Rotten Productionson all your favourite formats. Please do go check them out and grab some of the other killer releases they’ve spewed across the world.
Featuring a gruesome yet brilliant cover art from Skaðvaldur that just nails everything that’s spilling out from underneath, it’s not hard to see, hear, and most importantly smell what’s going on here. It’s death metal, it’s death metal of the more viscous and maggot-ridden kind… like an Exhumed, Impetigo or label-mates Gutless kind of vibe. It’s thick, fruity and ranker than the sound of my Labrador licking clean its love spuds.
Infectious Pathological Waste is Cryptworm’s third full-length, being their first new music in three years, and the Bristol-based trio are on quite the run of form of releases with 2022’s killer Spewing Mephitic Putridity and the utterly grimy slab of ooze that was 2023’s excellent Oozing Radioactive Vomition (all released on England’s own purveyors of filth Me Saco Un Ojo). Will this latest long-player keep the run of quality diseased records, or would it buck the trend and fall short of the quality laid down over the last few years?
a filth-ridden slab of utterly rotten death metal…
The band keep the barbaric, thick and meaty death metal that they channelled on previous records, also maintaining the damp and fetid atmosphere that drapes itself across the maelstrom. The tracks feel well structured, with real thought clearly put into how the crushing musicianship envelops the listener. This is evident from the get-go with the absolutely unhinged opening track Gallons Of Molten Hominal Goo. The riffs are so infectious that you’re immediately drawn into the record.
From here, that mayhem continues and doesn’t really stop, tracks like the initially released Drowning In Purulent Excrementia and Emanations Of Corporeal Pyosis really nail down what Cryptworm are all about… a filth-ridden slab of utterly rotten death metal.
The upgrade on here comes from vocalist Tibor, who sounds utterly bestial, drawing their already disgustingly abhorrent gurgled vocals to the absolute extreme. I think the production really helps highlight how good a job he does here… you can feel the third record energy and that these guys absolutely know what they’re doing. They’re just loving every second, which comes through in the performance and final product.
As I mentioned earlier, this is some low-down death metal squalor that infects everything it comes into close contact with. If you dig that kind of filth, then you’ll dig this… go get it fellow weirdos!
Label: Me Saco Un Ojo Records | Extremely Rotten Productions
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Scribed by: Matt Alexander
