NECROWRETCH demo 2008 review

NECROWRETCH (France) – S/T
Demo CD 2008 – Self released
4 tracks – 9'27
Rated: 2,5/10
A young duo of necrophiles who started digging graves in early 2008. After a few rehearsals they record many demos and here is one of them, this four-track demo contains 4 raw songs in the old school death metal way, the very beginning of the style. Here, you can say these guys are influenced by the demos of bands like MANTAS/DEATH, NIHILIST, AUTOPSY, shits like that.
But this demo got an homemade production, and that's probably what annoys me with this demo: I mean it sounds as a forced raw sounding demo, the riffing is really basic and the guitar sound is unbearable, well I don't like it, I don't know what's the guy used but it's some crunchy and powerless sound. The mixing is also quite bad, some instruments crushed the others so the result is sometimes chaotic. However, this demo doesn't suck completely, sometimes NECROWRETCH uses some nice haunting melodies that can remind the work heard on DEATH BREATH. The vocals are also cool, very low and guttural, I suspect them being pitched with effect. It' a first try, so let the band work their tracks harder as well as their sound. I think they can but just improve.
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