Raw brutality and a straightforward vision of flying viscera is sometimes all you need to achieve success in the underground. Death metal is no stranger to all sorts of violence from the relatively mundane to mutilations that are of a truly fantastical sort. While there’s always glory to be had in going above and beyond when it’s put together by the right hands, there is little in the whole spectrum of music that can compare to nasty death metal that keeps its tools simple but no less than deadly effective. Many are familiar with such tricks of the trade. Flesher is absolutely one of them, and it’s with their latest EP that they’ve only honed their proficiency with such weapons of barbaric surgeries.

A ferocious display of power that seeks to bring to us new levels of depravation and intensity is something that death metal is constantly in search of, and it’s while we find ourselves in a time where progressive and technical notions have taken the scene by storm, it’s important to remember that there is another side to that coin that has yet to waver in its viciousness. Bands like Flesher are a big reason why straightforward death metal of this sort is still exciting from top to bottom in the right hands, and it demands to be made obvious that it’s with everything cut up throughout the six tracks of “Gore on Gore” that the sound is given nothing if not extreme justice at every turn. Chugging riffs, unrelenting fury, and an unashamed approach to bloodlust fueled by an ungodly rage, Flesher returns to us after just two years to show us precisely why they’re a rising name that demands our attention. Efficient and downright dastardly for all that it accomplishes in a 22-minute runtime, the whole of “Gore on Gore” is far from the work that’s going to revolutionize a corner of death metal into spawning a new wave of any sort, but there is little one can do to not hail this EP for all that it is.

By all accounts, this is not a piece that sought to do something all that new nor did it go out of its way to be an effort that embodies only the finest of what this corner of death metal can become. Rather, Flesher set out for evisceration and hyper-violence the likes of which death metal has known for decades now. Without making things feel stale or uninspired, it’s with “Gore on Gore” that Flesher’s latest offensive is nothing if not damn effective!

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