Corrupted & Infaust split 7"

Wishes for a happy new year full of joy and peace are incomplete without a post on Corrupted, the greatest purveyors of sonic despair and apocalypse from Japan. Their track on this split, "Other Side," is a devastating piece of the heaviest possible doom/sludge with an addictive frozen black metal arpeggiated feel that increases the feeling of devastation and is proper listening during the extreme winter conditions where I am right now. On the flip-side Infaust from Germany offer a good track of sludge with a hardcore approach; it's quite good, but of course nothing and nobody can reach Corrupted. 2002 7" on Blind Date Records.

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Corrupted - Dios Injusto 7"

At the request of a reader, I'm posting one of the best Corrupted releases ever. If there is one trademark Corrupted guitar riff, for me the central riff of "Dios Injusto" is the one, perhaps alongside the main riff of "Paso Inferior." But this one has this serpentine, crawling arpeggiated style that alsois equally heavy sludge and black metally like the demos of Thorns or some of the riffs of "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" Mayhem. The "guitar solo" cacophony on the second side is also just indescribable, while both Hevi and Chew are on top of their game here, the first in his Spanish curses and the second in crushing everything on the drums. 1999 7" on Frigidity Discos (<3 @ the Spanish"discos")

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Corrupted - Se Hace Por Los Suenos Asesinos cd

 

Corrupted's third full-length was equally bleak to the previous one. The first track "Gekkou No Daichi" (it would receive an epic revisit in Garten Der Unbewusstheit), is an acoustic doom-western requiem via almost Tibetan chanting and the two other tracks are characteristic Corrupted apocalypse, the latter one featuring a heavily Celtic-Frosted deathly groove. Must listen. 2004 cd on HG Fact.

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Corrupted - Llenandose De Gusanos 2XCD

Corrupted is the archetypical example of what "doom metal" should mean, and they're my all-time favorite doom/sludge band, from their early crushing riffage days to the epic and melancholic sound of Garten Der Unbewusstheit. On this two-hour-long set, we get one track beginning with a bleak piano line that keeps resurfacing through the most punishing slow and apocalyptic sludge you've ever heard and Hevi's Spanish-language curses on mankind's destructive tendencies. The second track is a 74-minute ambient environment of the world after the apocalypse.

It's a sunny and warm day out here, and my mood is perfect, but I'm posting this to celebrate a new Corrupted vinyl release that was brought out two days ago by Cold Spring and is shrouded in mystery - no samples or anything. Hopefully we'll get to hear it at some point...

1999 double cd on HG Fact.

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