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| Sputnikmusic |
 The Tomb Within will probably be heralded as a stylistic return to form, and can probably be called their best since Mental Funeral without a single listen, if only because what followed the '91 classic was a slow crawl transition into becoming Abscess and, as a result, a band no longer worth listening to. Approaching The Tomb Within I had but one expectation--not that it would be up to par with two death metal classics, but that it would be better than another supposed return to form: Obituary's Darkest Day. Man, that album was a piece of shit.To be blunt, The Tomb Within is a solid EP but far from anyone to call it a return to form. Autopsy are once again recording songs longer than two minutes and yes, they're back to writing straight to the point death metal, but through the album's admittedly brief 20 minutes it's easy to feel like something's missing. What The Tomb Within lacks is the extra layer of pungent, sewer-y filth that defined their best works. Undoubtedly these five songs are a step in the right direction, and opening track's energy and virility shows they've still got the chops to excel within the genre they helped pioneer, but with the exception of “Mutant Village” The Tomb Within feels rushed. “Seven Skulls” seems to end just as it finds its footing and “My Corpse Shall Rise” is little more than a few solid segments bridge by awkward, undeveloped transitions. Even “Human Genocide”, a track the band has had nearly 23 years to perfect, feels unfinished....full text |
| Metal-archives |
| I’m not all that familiar with Autopsy. I love their debut Severed Survival, but somehow I just haven’t heard the rest of their stuff yet. I do know good music when I hear it, though, and The Tomb Within, the band’s hallowed comeback release, is a study in masterful riffing, filth-caked atmosphere and bile-drinking, zombie-pus-infected bloody wounds that will not fail to please. It’s not quite perfect, but it’s a hell of a lot of fun anyway, and I found it plenty enjoyable. The guitars are heavy, raw and gritty, churning out unholy riffing with a manic kind of energy. I really think the riffs here are great; they’re just so hooky and aggressive and varied. Sometimes they’re fast and chunky, sounding like a zombie shoveling dirt through the ground to escape back to the surface, like on the title track and the awesome “Seven Skulls.” But on “Mutant Village” we get a slow, doomy dirge that just shows how little restraint this band has – there’s no genre-mindedness here at all, just like in the old days. A lot of modern bands have pigeonholed themselves into a more distilled and less entertaining version of the classic sound, not allowing any other influences to really seep in – unless of course they’re going for some kind of silly ‘avant garde’ sound, in which case you can expect the outside influences to be treated like circus exhibits on display, rather than a natural concoction. Autopsy’s music on this EP is great because it’s got this real earthly, naturalistic heavy metal sound to offer, purely and honestly written. But I digress. Listen to that title track. Hear how it starts off soft and far away, unassumingly making you turn up the volume to hear it better? Better not lose your focus, lest the coming storm of heaviness destroy your eardrums. I mean man, this is heavy as hell. In three minutes the band conjures up a volleying, mutated slime that shifts through slow and fast sections naturally, spiced up with some seriously old school Mercyful Fate styled leads. The twisted, pained screams of “My Corpse Shall Rise” are intense and visceral, and the song packs some seriously killer hooks. “Seven Skulls” is the best song on here with chaotic, hellish guitar cacophonies that make me feel like I’m descending the river Styx or something. I don’t really think the last two songs are as good, but they’re not too bad; just not as inspired....full text |
| Bloodygoodhorror |
| Somehow, even after all the years of latent dormancy, three of the four original members of Autopsy can come back together and still rock it. It must be like riding a bike, as this incarnation of the long-thought-to-be-dead gore metal classic hasn't really missed a step relative to their other works. I suppose it only makes too much sense to see Autopsy back together, since Chris Reifert declared Abscess on hiatus, and the man has to fill his days with something. There will always be a place in the community for a band like Autopsy, who fills the niche of destructive, blood-soaked, brutal imagery that metal's id has always represented. Musically, "The Tomb Within" is much in the style of so many other grinding death albums. There aren't so much notes, chords or progressions so much as there is wanton distortion, screaming, anguished guitars and an impassioned, growling vocal wail. Any attempt at generating a groove is completely forsaken, and more crushing guitar and relentless percussion is added to the mix. One of the things that's always amused me about songs like this is looking at the pure waveform of the song. There's no peaks and valleys to indicate changes in tempo or volume. There's just a block of unbridled sound coming to rattle your speakers. On the five song EP, the themes stay fairly consistent, with the major variation being pace. While "Seven Skulls" is a high-speed, non-stop distorted fuzz-out, "Mutant Village" is a slow, non-stop distorted fuzz-out. That's about as far as musical creativity goes on "The Tomb Within."...full text |
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