Corpsessed

Corpsessed

Succumb To Rot

Dark Descent

Finland’s death metal pacesetters Corpsessed celebrate their fifteenth anniversary with the release of brand-new album Succumb To Rot on Dark Descent Records. The unholy union of Corpsessed and Dark Descent Records, that began with 2011’s highly acclaimed The Dagger & The Chalice EP, endures to this day. Both entities have since gone to transform the shape of the death underground as one know its, carving out a unique niche reserved only for true old school zealots. With a steady line-up of seven years in place, and a strong foothold on the top of the death metal hierarchy, Corpsessed deliver an arrogantly superior milestone of atmospheric old school death metal enveloped in existential dread. “One circle closes only for another to begin anew. This is the logical conclusion to Impetus Of Death where the limits of human existence gives us a push to even do things in life (art being the pinnacle)—Succumb To Rot is the inevitable end where all things must eventually die and give into the relentless forces of entropy, and disintegrate into nothingness,” reflects guitarist M.M.. The mentally distressing artwork by Vladimir “Smerdulak” Chebakov also continues a tradition of exceptional Corpsessed album covers.

Corpsessed

The Dagger & The Chalice

Dark Descent

Bone-jarring and chest-crushing; if death had a soundtrack, The Dagger & The Chalice would be it. Hailing from Finland, Corpsessed's brand of spine-tingling death metal will not disappoint. Six tracks, twenty-four minutes (plus the addition of bonus live material from Steelfest 2012), The Dagger & The Chalice is pure death metal. No gimmicks, no keyboards, just rotten death metal the way it should be. This release features an eight-page booklet on extra thick matte finish paper complete with art from Alexander "Bad News" Brown.

Corpsessed

Abysmal Thresholds

Dark Descent

After terrorizing your ear drums with 2011's The Dagger And The Chalice and 2012's self-titled 7-inch, Finland's Corpsessed are poised to thoroughly decimate what's left of your auditory senses. The band's debut full-length, Abysmal Thresholds is over 47 minutes (ten tracks) of death metal the way you've come to expect from this hard-hitting Finnish band.

Corpsessed

Impetus Of Death

Dark Descent

Many things have changed since the 2014 release of the band's acclaimed first full-length album, Abysmal Thresholds. Main composer and guitarist Matti Mäkelä finally found some time to resurrect his funeral doom project Tyranny and release one crusher of an album (also on Dark Descent) in 2015. A year later, Corpsessed found a new bassist in Tuomas Kulmala (Lie In Ruins and Perdition Winds). And over the course of four long years, Corpsessed completed their second full-length Impetus Of Death, an album that manages to top it its predecessor in terms of heaviness and brutality while taking their epic sound a step further. "We've never been that fast composers" admits Mäkelä. "But the atmosphere must be there, the riffs must be killer and everything has to be top notch. Plus, we knew we needed to raise the bar this time. So all the band members contributed and we had three separate demo sessions of almost all the songs. It was quite time consuming but invaluable while thinking of the big picture, even more, so we've once again recorded the album ourselves." The recordings took place from November 2017 to February 2018 in their rehearsal place, with extra help from their label-mates Lie In Ruins and Desolate Shrine. Dan Lowndes from Resonance Sound Studio took care of the mastering last April. The album's title was inspired by the impression that, indeed, it is "death itself that sets things in motion, be it the fear or lurking presence of your own demise,...