AUTOPSY – Macabre Eternal 2xLP

What bums me most about death metal bands created in the new millennia is the way in which they decide to produce their records, absolutely minimalizing the human effort by using machines to do all their work. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t care whether you work more or less in the studio, I care about the final product, which is the music I am listening to and I definitely don’t like my drumming crystal clear and my bass clean and shaved. Autopsy have definitely ‘improved’ a lot sound quality-wise from their early days. However, what is great sound and production in their case, does not ruin the spirit and smell of this package in the very least. You get straight, non cheesy and always as balled, down trodden death metal. Or maybe I should say ‘doom death’ if we’re speaking about some of the songs. What’s particularly enjoyable about this album is that is has everything your ears’d need – it has the fast, bludgeoning guitar solos, it has the doomier, slow-paced grim songs, it has everything and done in the finest way possible.