Arsebreed is the third Dutch band on the fast growing Neurotic Records. A label with an increasingly strong roster that has already released brutal highlights such as Prostitute Disfigurement’s “Left In Grisly Fashion” and Visceral Bleeding’s “Transcend Into Ferocity”. Future releases will include new work by Psycroptic and Spawn Of Possession but first here is “Munching The Rotten”.

Arsebreed could be regarded as a young band by some as this is only their first record but the band had a previous life under the name Bloodcum and was founded in 2000 so that makes it almost an old band. When you also learn that the band contains (ex-)members of Pyaemia (R.I.P.), Mangled and Disavowed then you know that we have here a bunch of Dutch death metal veterans.
It’s no real surprise that “Munching The Rotten” growls, barks and gnarls brutal death metal with a grind edge and it’s also no surprise that these guys know how to play their favorite genre.

I have the record for some time now and goddamnit! with each spin it becomes more addictive and stronger.

No, it’s not the most original record ever (think Prostitute Disfigurement, Deeds Of Flesh and a whole slew of U.S. death metal bands) but that doesn’t matter because that wasn’t the aim. They don’t claim that they reinvented the wheel or something; the goal was to record the tightest most brutal death metal record they could make and they’ve succeeded.

‘The making of…” video included on the promo shows a very relaxed band in the Excess Studios in Rotterdam, recording the instruments. The mixing and vocals recording were done in a home studio at the attic of one of the band members and it’s fun to see that that relaxed, dare I say, cozy atmosphere can result in such a filthy depraved form of musical gore. The strongest track in my opinion is the Gorerotted-esque “Stabbed In The Arse” but every other track is brutal, catchy and over the top. To wrap it up: another release Neurotic Records can be proud of.