As the years go on, brutal death metal continues to evolve and mutate in the most weird and wonderful ways. One of the latest and greatest examples of this is Ohio’s Quartering, a one-man project that’s ready to warp the ever-living fuck out of your feeble brain with his debut ep, The Purulent Exudate of Corrupted Flesh, out now via Sacramento, CA-based death metal label Barbaric Brutality.
By combining brutal death metal with electronic elements that sound as if they may be at least partially derived from genres as varied as hip hop, industrial music and noise, Quartering bring an experimental edge to the genre without losing sight of the importance of being heavy as fuck. Even at its weirdest, The Purulent Exudate of Corrupted Flesh sounds like it’s on the verge of collapsing space and time, ready to drag the listener into the maw of the black hole.
In spite of clocking in at just under ten minutes, the EP is surprisingly immersive and leaves you craving more. Quartering knows how to pack a lot of atmosphere and intrigue into these short song lengths and listeners will pick up on new elements with repeat listens. The rough-around-the-edges yet clear production scheme perfectly suits the four short tracks and works to emphasize Quartering’s strengths as a player and composer.
The Purulent Exudate of Corrupted Flesh is an intriguing opening statement from a project that oozes with creativity and potential. If Quartering is able to bring this level of mind-mangling excellence to the table with a short EP, Satan help us all whenever he decides to put out a full length, because it will probably bring about the singularity.
THKD 