If classic, meaty death metal is your pleasure, your soul will delight at the wretchedness of Louisiana's very own maestros of deathly muck, CONGEALED PUTRESCENCE. As purveyors of the extreme and brutal noise of the nastiest of death metal - as displayed in the delightfully foul debut "Dissolved in Hyphae" - this filthy collective serve only to annihilate your ears and eviscerate your soul with the grim croak of traditional death metal in their sophomore EP, "Within the Ceaseless Murk".

A short slice of unconventional southern charm, CONGEALED PUTRESCENCE ensure they steamroll the anvil-heavy four-track EP, and whilst it only clocks up twelve minutes of listening time, still achieves plenty of eardrum bursting barbarity and gives an OSDM chokehold to last a lifetime. These degenerates of death are unapologetic in producing glorious, gut-churning savagery, gravitating towards anything and everything harsh on the sonic spectrum in the vein of pure, unadulterated old school charm. It's all in the name of taking the infectiously grotesque era of ENTOMBED, OBITUARY, and AUTOPSY and rolling it into something equally as unpalatable and grim in today's world.

Take the opening track, "Advection", all beefy brawn and muscle with its swell of blistering drums firing on all cylinders, bone-grinding tempo, and larynx-shredding vocals that will simply blow your face clean off, or the fetid appeal of "Gelid Fathomless Suffering" with its swirling swarm of catchy riffs and pummelling stench of ceaseless drum fills and percussive heaviness, all wrapped up in bass lines filthier than your incontinent nan's knickers and grunts nastier than a blocked overflowing bog after a week of decadent Christmas grub.

If this isn't enough to whet your appetite, perhaps you'd like to baste yourself in the galloping juices of "Suffocating Brain"? Its rumbling guts will have you for garters, its growls from the bowels will sucker punch you into oblivion, and the gnarly, incendiary guitars will have you stickier and more explosive than the sloppy mess of a masturbating teenager. And whilst we're on the subject of producing gloopy messes, "Burning Off" combusts with its twisted grooves and temporal tease, piling in plenty of sadistic howls, frantic riffs and frenzied double-kicks and percussive slaps. This is death metal that makes the earth move for you. Yes, really.

CONGEALED PUTRESCENCE has two razor-sharp releases to its name, with the latest instalment "Within the Ceaseless Murk" showcasing the band's immeasurable talent and stonking musicianship. There's a glorious raw edge to the production to inject some heavily nostalgic 80's OSDM authenticity - without it sounding like it's been made in a crusty sex dungeon - and these guys sodomise you with sound. If this tasty EP doesn't get you wetter than an otter's pocket, I don't know what will.<