Calling an Autopsy release ‘new’ is a bit like defining two-week-old human corpse as ‘fresh’, but short verification in the calendar proves that ‘Macabre Eternal’ truly is the new Autopsy album. These twelve rotting songs that scatter miasmas all upon us serve as fat bits of unexhumed flesh in the graveyard from one of the strongest death metal institutions on the planet. But to what extend are they needed in 2011? Ever since Chris Reifert brought about the end of his most influential and successful band after 1995’s prematurely born ‘Shitfun’, concentrating on Abscess, The Ravenous (and sometimes Eat My Fuk), the genre underwent many transformations and sometimes even changed it’s malformed face to be completely unrecognisable. As it is, we’re in the year of the old school, when death is raw and direct like cleaver in the face, Sweden is in the skeletal grip of another renaissance and the puritans have found their redemption.It’s always good to have the old masters back, especially when they start torturing listeners’ eardrums with an opening duo like ‘Hand of Darkness’and ‘Dirty Gore Whore’, the first being an exploration of horror through some of the best riffs the band has ever created, while the second track twists into disgustingly ugly cannibal dance. ‘Macabre Eternal’ is not a jocular album; it has nothing to do with money-driven goals and most importantly – sounds as terrifying as it would 20 years ago. The production is dry and cold like the toothy smile of a skull staring into eternity, perfectly fitting a masterpiece of gore like ‘Sadistic Gratification’, which gathers strong Incantation atmosphere with the classic Autopsy cumshot altogether to spectacular effect. Driven by aggression and bathed in blood, death metal’s hairy primates are back from their cave and boy, they won’t leave without some fresh (human) meat!
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