FILTH Time to Rot LP

At this point terminally obsessed death metal folks could probably guess on sight what Filth sound like when they’re hitting riffs: Slow-scaling tremolo picked shapes create movement between gloomed and galloping pinch harmonic tipped ends, a few hits of doom-death deepen their strikes here and there while the bulk of their catchier chunking is presented in revolving blasted and half-step patternation. Most of ‘Time to Rot‘ is driven by “modern” takes (as in, the post-2010’s movement) on ‘old school’ rhythms where their sound is non-specific to any one 90’s scene and focuses on basic, low-count riffing with a sort of trotted meter to it. Certain aspects of their sound recall the simpler side of earlier 90’s Midwest death metal grooves and the trudging groove of newer Incantation though we ultimately get something closer to Mortuous or Fetid as the slow-hop of opener “Odious Obsession” rallies beyond a dark industrial fade-in.