It’s five years since I gave “Deceases” a 9 out of 10 review on this very site. In Covid Years that is no time at all. So here are the crushing Finns back once again to drop the heavy on the world. In case you don’t know or have forgotten this is an outlet for Keijo Niinimaa from Rotten Sound to leave the world of Grind behind and embrace the world of granite heavy filthy doom/sludge. You know the sort of mind melting treacle thick blackness that the likes of Primitive Man and Worm make.

Morbid Evils do not disappoint. This album is four titan sized tracks weighing in at over 40 minutes and 6 megatons of ear-blasting power.

The riffs are, as one would expect, massive and each track bludgeons the listener into submission but with varying degrees of force and using differing instruments – some blunt and some razor sharp. It is like being in the aural equivalent of the London Dungeon.

Take opener “Fearless” for example. This ten-minute beast begins as a throbbing, lumbering doom hammer crushing skulls in the filthiest of ways. The riffs and drums open up the cavities in the skull for Keijo’s filthy rasped vocals to force their way into.  Then things take a lurch into faster Godflesh territory and the drums pick up the pace too settling the track into a mid-paced groove that coiled around my noggin like happy parasite. Add in some crazy d-beats and unholy guttural vocals and this is one cacophonic maelstrom of an intro to this quartet of chaos.  The track ends as it began making this one feel like an epic journey through a vast computer game where the player was given a Mario power up part way through!

“Anxious” brings the morbidity with a backbone of melancholy that sounds like a distorted cello. Doooooooooooooooooom with more ooohs than a tea commercial and a rancid air of death about it. Truly Morbid and indeed Evil(s).  “Tormented” opens with a dirty riff that must be encrusted with the blood of some long dead leviathan. It feels like every pass over the pick ups rips a new wound.  This is the highlight of the four tracks for me. It has a big groovy riff and a drum beat that kicks you in the chest like a defib before transcending into a giant spiked roller that pulverises all bone and flesh. In a good way of course! Add in some haunting multi tonal guitar parts and a constant bass barrage this is just a sky swallowing dark entity that also manages to flirt with proggy time changes whilst flattening civilisations.

The title track (well without the final “s” ) rounds things off in a fitting way. The eleven plus minutes have a post punk feel that brings to mind Killing Joke alongside the heavy industrial doom sludge elements.  It just seems to get heavier and heavier throughout the track, making me feel pleasantly punch-drunk by the end yet still humming the bandsaw style refrain that permeates the majority.

Morbid Evils have done it again setting all weapons to smoosh and still leaving me with a smile on my cracked teeth.

(8.5/10 Matt Mason)

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