AUTOPSY — Morbidity Triumphant (review)

AUTOPSY — Morbidity Triumphant album cover Album · 2022 · Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3.5/5 ·
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"Morbidity Triumphant" is the eigth full-length studio album by US death metal act Autopsy. The album was released through Peaceville Records in September 2022. It´s the successor to "Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves" from April 2014. There´s been one lineup change since the predecessor as longtime bassist Joe Allen has been replaced by Greg Wilkinson. The usual suspects are Chris Reifert on drums and vocals and Eric Cutler and Danny Coralles on guitars. 8 years is a long time between album releases, but Autopsy have released quite a few other types of releases in those years, including the 2015 mini-album "Skull Grinder" and the 2020 live album "Live in Chicago", and of course Autopsy have also been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic like every other band in the world.

If you´re familiar with Autopsy´s signature death/doom and occasionally hardcore punk tinged death metal style which features gory lyrical subjects, you´ll find very few suprises on "Morbidity Triumphant", this is basically more of the same, which in the case of Autopsy isn´t a huge issue, because they are masters at what they do. Reifert sounds as depraved and sick as usual with his asylum bound growling vocal style and vile lyrics, and the organic playing rhythm section also deliver the heavy brutal grooves as you´d expect. The guitar riffs are brutal and organic, and Cutler and Coralles also whip up a few morbid sounding leads and harmony sections. So all in all nothing has changed in the world of Autopsy.

"Morbidity Triumphant" features an organic and raw sounding production, which suits the old school death metal material well. While this may be a slightly more professional and detailed sound production to the ones found on the early releases by Autopsy, this could on all other parameters well have been an album released in the late 80s/early 90s. There´s nothing fancy, technical, or flashy about "Morbidity Triumphant", it´s just a good quality death metal release. When that is said, I think the tracks overall could have featured a few more hooks. I´m not really able to recognise the tracks or growl along to them, even after relatively many spins, and that seems to be a quality Autopsy have lost over the years, because the early releases featuerd quite a few hooks. Still a 3.5 star (70%) rating is deserved.
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