Fetid Zombie - Carrion Christ (2011)

   Mark Riddick's name probably sounds familiar for those who are into the depths of underground since a while, mainly because of his artworks, that are waving back from countless album cover arts and other band merch releases. But he also have a musical project in which he plays on all instruments, and it's similarly characteristic and easy to identify like his artworks. And in productiveness there's also an analogy to find.

   Fetid Zombie doesn't sound like how it is used to expect from death metal in general, because Mr. Riddick's main intention was probably to recall the most archaic aspect of the genre. And this have been started at the mostly rehearsal sound quality and the thrash, heavy metal and even punk influenced style of old Necrophagia and Nunslaughter. This is also like an experiment to recreate and redifine death metal from the basics and by a subjective view like how Impetigo did later. This concept is  more known and practiced in Sweden, where plenty of newer bands started to play in '80s style by recreating the spawing pool of extreme genres. Fetid Zombie is definitely the most primitive approach that could be made, and fits to all features of the late '80s embryonic extreme scene from lyrical exaggeration, blasphemous topics and gore-horror addiction to narrative-like cawing vocal style, very basic repetitive themes and rehearsal sound quality. This made Fetid Zombie an old school nostalgia project, that's mainly recommended to the fans of the most ancient sound of extreme genres.