FUNERIS


Festering Earth
9 tracks - playing time: 29:32 min.
Ibex Moon Records
Rating: 6.5/10
 
Alright, I wouldn’t say that this outfit from Pennsylvania REALLY shines with anything we haven’t heard before, but at least there are plenty of admirers of bands into the back-to-the-roots thing so, in case you are one of them, I just see no reason why you would skip the "Festering Earth" release! Especially if you’re into Grave or Incantation. In other words, Funeris have forwarded 9 tracks of mid-paced, ponderous death metal with a lot of moroseness inside. Lyric-wise, (as the CD very title probably suggests) things are not different.

Only Death is real, and it is Pain and Suffering that sculpture the path leading to Lethe’s shores! Average is the word that I would use as a definition of the "Festering Earth" release, on a whole. What I could add for Funeris in addition is that the band exists since `94, and has so far played live with acts like Zyklon, Grave, Soulless, Serpens Aeon, Acheron, Gospel Of The Horns, etc.

(Vanya)

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