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Necrovore - Divus de Mortuus
Copyright © 1987 Necrovore
1. Mutilated death
2. Slaughtered remains
3. Divus de mortuus
4. Toxic decay
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One of the bands that started the death metal genre knocked the last speed metal out of it, and that was Necrovore, who in a style later popularized by Morbid Angel emphasized darkly minimal tonal changes in melodic songwriting and extended phrasing which grounded phrases in chromatic intervals and modalities unrelated to a central scale except obliquely and through the logical mapping of each phrase into its continuative nexus. Unlike Morbid Angel, Necrovore are somewhat unsteady on their instruments and specialize in riffs which drive linearly and then alter through the tonally perverse into a new incarnation of the same contextually-shaped idea, but despite the relative simplicity of their work the Necrovore tracks possess a nihilism only duplicated by the first hardcore bands and some black metal acts. Gnarled rhythms counterpart a nihilistic lack of preconceptions about tone and an artistic spirit whose intent is power in the feral, primal, lawless sense of the word. While this is not as slickly refined as most metal today, its germinal conception provided the archetype from which most death metal derives its aspect.
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