Ossuarium
Living Tomb


4.0
excellent

Review

by Brandon Scott EMERITUS
July 11th, 2019 | 21 replies


Release Date: 2019 | Tracklist

Review Summary: Flames lick flesh.

Personally, death metal played an enormous role in how I perceived the quality of music last year. The new-school of old-school death metal scene has been raging for over a decade, and 2018 felt like the culmination of the classic meets contemporary style peddled throughout the last ten years. Ossuarium’s Living Tomb could have easily stood among the pantheon of greats from last year. It’s a record that lives up to its name, lurching about with the swagger of an undead behemoth, stench of decay oozing from every rotten pore. It is immediately evocative of OSDM death/doom greats Autopsy, the greatest compliment one could give a band of this style. It doesn’t just rest of laurels however; there is a macabre sense of melody that lurks behind the putrescent riffage, a gothic undertone that lends to the feeling of this album being an anquitious abomination, traipsing about for the taste of human flesh. Ironically, it also gives the album a freshness, and something that has kept myself (and others) returning this death metal cemetery, a place unsettling yet enjoyable all the same.



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Comments:Add a Comment 
TheSpirit
Emeritus
July 11th 2019


30304 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Bloon’s review is more substantial than this (obviously), but I’ve been digging this hard lately.

Dewinged
Staff Reviewer
July 11th 2019


32179 Comments


Nice shorty dude.

I dig this album quite a bit too.

Papa Universe
July 11th 2019


22502 Comments


am I the only one irked by the shortness of your reviews lately?
living POS

TheSpirit
Emeritus
July 11th 2019


30304 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Ope! I guess so lol. I’m taking that as you want to see more from me :] The next one will be longer, promise!

naughtcturnal
July 11th 2019


2746 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

album is filthy. spiritual (harhar) pos

Gnocchi
Staff Reviewer
July 11th 2019


18262 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

That double contrib rep

Nerdurosis
July 11th 2019


530 Comments


The outro to 'Corrosive Hallucinations' is sexy

Hawks
July 11th 2019


93615 Comments


Nice. m/

TheSpirit
Emeritus
July 11th 2019


30304 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

thankx

ffs
July 11th 2019


6327 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

thought i had heard this but it was actually the ossuary album from this year. will check

TheSpirit
Emeritus
July 20th 2019


30304 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

hope you dig!

Atari
Staff Reviewer
July 28th 2019


28009 Comments

Album Rating: 3.8

Better than Tomb Mold and most dm this year

dwightfryed
July 28th 2019


123 Comments


Great record, hate to invoke the sacred name of Autopsy, but it fits here.

Dewinged
Staff Reviewer
September 10th 2019


32179 Comments


You need to traverse the catacombs in Dark Souls 3 and Dark Souls to fully grasp the filth of this album.

Gnocchi
Staff Reviewer
September 10th 2019


18262 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

This review went completely under my radar. This album however

Inveigh
November 20th 2019


26899 Comments


love the short review format, good shit bro

this record doesn't do a ton to stand out from the seemingly hundreds of solid bands doing this style the last few years, but it's still very good m/

Deez
June 19th 2020


10498 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Underrated

TheSpirit
Emeritus
July 9th 2020


30304 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

agreed

Em1994
October 27th 2021


1118 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Alot of you are sleeping on this one. Damn good Osdm albums from past couple years.

Orb
September 1st 2022


9493 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Need some more from this band!



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