Review Summary: Atheist crawling from your city sewer.
Corrosive Ethics is the grisly offspring of Atheist, Artificial Brain, and a moderate dose of straight up slam metal. To say that it revels in the absurd would be a complete understatement, as Logistic Slaughter sound more like they were spawned from a hellish galaxy on the edge of the universe. To be fair, this
is brutal death metal. Off kilter rhythms and sewage gutturals are hardly something new to the genre, but they've never been taken to this level of near unbelievability. This is exemplified well off of the ending of "Cathartic Killing" with vocals that can only be described as beatbox pig squeals. The rapid succession at which these grimy grunts are hammered out is repugnant, a word that can be described to the vocals of this album (of course, this is a good thing in brutal dm).
Which brings me to what I believe is the selling point of the album-the vocals. Sure, one cannot diminish the importance of the chaotic guitar wizardry or the frantic pace changing rhythms of the percussion, but at every point of this album the vocal theatrics are on full goddamn blast. Every disconcerting grunt, squeal, growl and bree is given the chance to show in every which way they can be performed. Visually, this makes for an odd image, as I imagine the wide array of facial shapes our putrid pal makes to create such sounds.
All of this comes together to make something akin to if our own hell had a rabid alien takeover. Towering flames lash their mighty tongues towards trails of rotten blood and foul extraterrestrial slime, illuminating the full on human annihilation left behind from every grimy growl, every frantic guitar sweep, every punishing blast beat. Put aside your Vampire Weekend playlist for now, for this is it. This is Logistic Slaughter.
