Corpsemangle “Eating the Damned”

Year: 2026

Hailing from Bulgaria, Corpsemangle began as Anton Bozhkov’s personal death metal project and started to take on a more complete band form in 2025 with Martin joining on bass and backing vocals. Musically, this is pure early-’90s worship—nothing modern, nothing progressive, everything firmly locked between 1990 and 1992. The guitar sound is properly sick and promising, mostly and clearly worked on, traditional death metal ideas executed with care. While the songwriting doesn’t offer anything new or innovative, it avoids lazy filler riffs and overused generic power-chord patterns, which gives the material some promise.

That said, the weakest point is clearly the drums. The drum sound and overall performance seriously hurt the impact of the songs, and a capable full-time drummer would elevate the project significantly. With a stronger rhythm section, Corpsemangle could push their material to a more convincing level.

Overall, this is an average but honest underground project from the Balkan Peninsula made by people who clearly love the music they play. For listeners who enjoy straightforward, no-frills gore-oriented old-school death metal, Corpsemangle will deliver exactly what they’re looking for—nothing more, nothing less.