Stages of Decomposition: Piles of Rotting Flesh Album Review!
Stages of Decomposition Review:
To outsiders of the brutal as fuck death metal genre, it could sound like directionless white noise. However, to those housed and contained within the circles, bands such as LA based, Stages of Decomposition are perfection. I own two caps: a trucker cap with a Dawn of the Dead patch sewn on, plus an official snapback of this band.
This is pure bang your head ‘till it pulps music. From growling guitars to smash the kit into pieces drumming, then snarling vocals, and a horror tinge (as we’ll see). It’s only right that they’re signed to Gorehouse Productions, the abode of bands such as Clitgore, Torsofuck (see review here), Blasted Pancreas, Sikfuk (with their album, Shitfisted Superman – the Man of Stool), and the UK’s Foetal Juice. Plus, there’s Scotland’s brilliantly named, Party Cannon (that means vomiting your guts up whilst intoxicated).
Piles of Rotting Flesh as an album carries a true crime horror theme, and in a total Mortician/Impetigo kind of way. It’s a sample then into the blast of audio insanity. Genital Apidocere has a few slow bars as Salvador (Exhumer) Rodriguez growls akin to a hardcore subhuman bastard before he launches into his lyrics. “…my rotting cock, leading to your bloody cunt… Full decay, skin tears away, her genitals so soft and warm, I fuck her pussy then move to asshole…” Indeed.
Like Gorerotted (see review here) there’s two vocalists, and unlike bands like Putrid Womb, you can sort of hear the words if you concentrate whilst taking mushrooms. The traumatic drums and slamming guitars really get your head nodding from track one. The intro to track two, with a guy discussing how he only once made love to a dead woman, but he didn’t like it (wow I wish I could find out about these samples), runs us into Cadaverick Molestation, beginning as usual with a growl, then a plummeting pounding throbbing tune.
Stages of Decomposition change up the music throughout the songs so nothing becomes monotonous. Chainsaw Disembowelled Cadaver is proper old school sounding. The chaotic show rolls on, when we arrive to the clip of the discovery of a dead gardener, well his remains since pigs have chomped a majority, Devoured and Defecated by Swine is a winner, winner, flesh dinner. “Nobody lives, when devoured and defecated by swine…” That’s the truth, y’know.
The highlight simply must be the very detailed, Butcher of Plainfield, of course it’s our pal, Ed, lest he never be forgotten.
Surprisingly the band haven’t delivered much since this 2014 album, just a quick EP a couple of years later, however it’s mentioned that they do tour a fair bit. I can imagine the extreme power these behemoths could deliver on stage. Awesome. There’s a pic on Instagram late 2022 and a note that vocals were being finished to something.
Stages of Decomposition are tight, they can be felt as well as heard. The album is consistent with no weak moments. You will bleed, this will hurt. For proof check the official video below.
Album Info:
Band: Stages of Decomposition
Album: Piles of Rotting Flesh
Members: Salvador Rodriguez (bass, vocals), Cesar Bajaras (guitars), Daniel Smoo (drums, vocals), Marco Aromatario (guitars)
Recorded: The Morgue Music Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Year: 2014
Country: USA
Art: Tony Cosgrove, Angel Lopez
Runtime: 33min 46sec
Label: Gorehouse Productions
Track Listing:
01. Genital Adipocere
02. Cadaveric Molestation
03. Chainsaw Disemboweled Cadaver
04. Acid Bath Orgy
05. Piles of Rotting Flesh
06. Devoured And Defecated by Swine
07. The Butcher of Plainfield
08. The Burning09. Schizophrenic Nympho
Piles of Rotting Flesh
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