The safety of the womb is gone - 88% autothrall, April 9th, 2011 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 überbrücken AUTOPSY mit dem 2012er Release „All Tomorrow’s Funerals“ für mich ganze 21 Jahre Bandgeschichte. They clearly recorded both songs in one go, so they went the extra mile to splice the audio file right at the end of the song when the acoustic guitar comes in and slap it on the album as a new track that's 38 seconds long. In what can only be described as a stroke of genius, Autopsy expertly maneuver their way through this minefield to execute these dynamics. (06:59) Torn from the Womb05. A true death metal classic. You have a mean, sinister goon side, and then the monstrous ugly, dark side; both faces coming from the same person. They're usually the "off" sounding ones - you know, "they know all the right wrong notes" - and they carry that same grandiose, sick feeling. The organic sound of "Mental Funeral" adds to its deathly atmosphere, you can almost smell the coffin stench when listening to it. Es ist nicht alles Gold, was glänzt, die Spur des Gewöhnlichen und bereits Gehörten windet sich ebenfalls durch die Platte. 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. Other specific changes from Severed Survival were, apart from the already mentioned lower average pace and muddy production, the fact that the thrash-based primordial death metal riffs were exchanged for doom based sludgy chords, semi-riffs and eerie melodies. A better, more ambient/cavernous production with a booming drum sound and crushing guitars is what we have here as well as a (somewhat) more refined approach to the lyrics, and this is what Autopsy has wrought; a damn twisted classic. , DESASTER 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. Wenn man die Namen „Severed Survival” oder „Mental Funeral“ fallen lässt, so weiß ein jeder Death-Metal-Fan sofort, dass es um die Legende AUTOPSY … Hyper-fast blastbeats are not necessary for Autopsy, nor are heavy distortions. I would relate it back to Dismember's first two albums. However, this band would go on to a change on their second album. The cover art sums this album up perfectly: loud, garish and confused. Overthought and overdone - 41% A lot of the riffs can be quite primitive sounding at times, using only a few techniques. Hello Select your ... not a single bad thing to say about this record! But that phrase describes precisely what Mental Funeral is: lopsided, intentionally out-of-balance song structures; mischievously deranged riffs, very often spiced with multilayering for added harmonic effect; atonal guitar solos that appear out of nowhere, later to give way to yet another set of bizarre riffs; rhythms that bounce from rabid gallops to torturous crawls and everything in between. Which makes the most vicious homicidal maniac, in the act, look like a choir boy. The riffs on this album are absolutely spectacular. A masterpiece is exactly what this is: Autopsy’s sophomore album is a perfect demonstration of how excellent this genre can be. His vocals are quite versatile here, they can be mainly deep fluctuating growls, to extended screams. While this is partially an indication of the sorry state of modern death metal, it is also a testament to the immense, lasting power that Mental Funeral carries. The riffing is amazing on this album with songs like, "Dead", "Destined to Fester", and "Dark Crusade". Lyrics by Chris Reifert – except track 5, Eric Cutler; No. All music by Autopsy. Playing amazing rolls like that on, "Slaughterday", "Dead", and "Bonesaw". I make love to them… 0 Comment Report abuse Freddy Castro. The production is very essential but also clean. Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2014. Mental Funeral (1991) Fiend for Blood (1991) Professional ratings; Review scores; Source Rating; AllMusic: Mental Funeral is the second album by Autopsy, released in 1991 by Peaceville Records. It would be diverse and delightfully uncanny. Eine witzige Text-Formulierung (die ´Zombie Apocalypse´ sind die Handy-Mutanten der Jetztzeit), die âHeysâ und âHosâ als verhöhnende Social-Media-Emojis in ´Overnight Sensation´. You KNOW when you're listening to an Autopsy album. As depraved as this material is, it still taps into that "macabre nursery rhyme" vibe that was present in the classic works of Alice Cooper. einen eigenen Stempel aufgedrückt. Home Review Autopsy – Mental Funeral. 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. Here in the 21st century, it's become 'cool' again to delve into the primitive extremity minus the technical wizardry in which the 'other half' live, but Chris Reifert and his troupe had already decided on this path 20 years ago to date. Auch im produktionstechnischen Bereich gibt's reichlich zu bemängeln. I bought one of the last ones directly from Peaceville. With overall later releases, I think it was hard to top M.F. Mix doom and death, death and punk, whatever. The wild, flailing soloing also has a distinct desperate flair and character to it, as well as emotion and structure, two things often lacking in the realm of death metal as far as guitar soloing. This album is almost two decades old, and it still mops the floor with all other death metal released in the succeeding years. Not that Mental Funeral is necessarily innovative on its own, but the grimy production was quite a novelty in its day. Gooseflesh guaranteed! Just how it should be. With death’n’roll I don’t want to say “last Entombed” because there are a lot of differences. Remember: these were the days of either the earliest Skogsberg sound or Morrissound and everything else either came from England or sounded like a demo. DREAD SOVEREIGN, Alans Vehikel für All Things Doom, liefern jetzt ihr drittes Vollalbum ab und haben dafür u.a. Kann man machen! If your average modern days Death Metal band is a Hollywood production (they sure as hell sound that way these days, bloody hipsters!) And it's not only impressive that he has this range, but that he does both very well. The band just took a step further into their own magical world of putrefaction, funerals and horror and left all known early death metal dogma’s and boundaries for what they were. With a heavy and influential sound accompanied by massive riffs and doom-filled passages, Autopsy outdid themselves in 1991, only two years after their debut. Tatsächlich steht die Wahl dieses eher obskuren Demofrühwerks aber stellvertretend für genau die eine Geschmacksnote zu viel, die âAlchemical Warfareâ (ja, genau: Slayer) in der Gesamtschau leider etwas gestaltlos erscheinen lässt: Getragene, kilometertief ausholende Schwere bleibt die Kernkompetenz des Trios ('The Great Beast We Serve'), der gelegentliche Anstrich von Rotz'n'Rumpel funzt dagegen leider nicht so recht. It was in the form of this monster and was the result of enough factors to make the album cover a photograph of this thing if it ever breathed life and took shape. Persönlich würde ich mir insgeheim etwas mehr Innovationskraft wünschen, gerne auch mal ein stilistisches Abschweifen dieser gestandenen Riege von Profi-Musikern (die jede Note mithilfe ihres Produzenten traumwandlerisch an die richtige Stelle platzieren) - wohl wissend, dass die meisten Fans das kaum goutieren würden. "Bonesaw" is a brutal burst that would have been better manufactured into a full-length track. 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. On April 22nd, 1991 the Antichrist was born. That is a sound that would go on to inspire many bands such as Asphyx and Hooded Menace. Keine Wertung. Even Black Sabbath wasn't all that great at making moments like this scary. "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. This new style is perfect for this doom style on this record. April 1991 . Which makes Eric Cutler's vocal appearance on "Slaughterday" feel a bit generic, honestly, as Cutler simply doesn't sound as terrifying as Riefert does. Building on the underlined doom influences of the previous album, Autopsy takes their music in a new and refreshing direction and creating one of the finest doom/death albums out there. The guitars are more or less like chainsaw but not too extreme, while the growling is the typical one from Sweden.True obscure atmosphere in “Fleshcrawl” is great, while the following “Torn From The Womb” has a strange guitars work, based on simply riffs and odd lead guitar lines. As the album progresses, there is a constant schizophrenic switching between the various personalities of the band, from the creeping crawling almost doom of Winter, to the tremolo-picked riffs of Slaughterday, to the ultra-dirge of Destined To Fester, and back to the 40-second blastathon that is the immortal Bonesaw. They capture the essence of a sick, sadistic sort of evil that Autopsy embodies musically. 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. Most clean breakdowns relax the pace or the listener, but almost none of them actually manage to raise the tension by doing more with less. âThe Ghost Xperiment - Illuminationâ, das auch im 13-Minuten-Longtrack-Format ('The Ouroboros') tolle Spannungsbögen schafft, ist Prog Metal der alten Schule: klassisch, charmant, typisch VANDEN PLAS. Do whatever you want. Autopsy, can you visualize em', huh? 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