Corpus Offal “Corpus Offal”

Label: 20 Buck Spin · Year: 2025

Cerebral Rot (Seattle) was a pretty sick band, and they broke up in recent years. Their guitarists decided to carry on under the name Corpus Offal last year, releasing a demo, and now, not long after, their self-titled debut album is here. The band consists of Cerebral Rot guitarists Clyle (also of Caustic Wound and Fetid), Ian (Crurifragium), Jason (ex-Demoncy), and Jesse (Bell Witch). If you’re familiar with these guys and their other projects, you probably already have an idea of what to expect.

The band plays a unique brand of death metal, occasionally veering into psychotic death grind. It’s not exactly a continuation of their previous bands—there are some different, sicker riffs and songwriting choices here. That’s what made this debut more interesting to me, to be honest. The guitars aren’t as ultra-low-tuned as in their past projects, and there’s a heavier presence of psychotic riffs, with a stronger old-school death metal influence in the overall sound.

Personally, I liked the recording and production—everything sits just right in the mix. Fans of American death metal, brutal death metal, or death grind shouldn’t overlook this album.