Rottrevore - Blind Sided Attack

Rottrevore

Blind Sided Attack

2012 Self Release
After all these years, Rottrevore have crawled out of the festering slime pit that spawned them. The lineup has changed a little bit from that of the "Iniquitous" album, but that's about all that has changed. This three song demo (actually six, as the three tracks also appear without vocals) still fits the description of the band I remember seeing in an old Relapse mailorder list (it was two pages, double sided, filled with mostly underground 7" vinyls), that called Rottrevore, "tractor-pull death metal." Always sounded accurate to me, whatever the hell it meant. The songs on "Blind Sided Attack" are still in the same vein as the older material, so don't be concerned that they went off and turned into Dimmu Borgir or Behemoth. Still heavy as ever, with that Immolation\Incantation sound you remember. Actually, that description is very unfair to Rottrevore. They were part of the old New York scene, and were obviously inspired by the same bands as Incantation, Immolation, and even Suffocation. But anyway, the sound is still extremely brutal, and the members of the band have each gotten better when it comes to their craft. In fact, some of the slow doom vibe has given way to a little bit of speed in the guitar solos of all places. But that's really a minor change in the scheme of things, and it's obvious to my ears at least, that Rottrevore did not reform with the intention of doing something completely different than what their cult status dictated that they should do.  Hell, the demon from the debut album is on the cover of this one too!