Atavisma / Void Rot - Atavisma / Void Rot (2020)^{Release ID: 17612}

A split featuring two of death doom's greatest underrated bands. I have been a big fan of Atavisma and their abyssal doom of death for some time now. The three tracks featured here marry an old-school death metal vibe and the frenchmen's signature, "rotting-corpse-stench" doom metal to whet the appetite of any ultra-morbid doomster. The last of their three tracks is titled Dread and that just about sums these guys up.

Void Rot I am less familiar with, but are very much in a similar vein albeit a little more uptempo. I swear I could feel the ground shaking during Necrotic Deity (come on, with a song title like that you must have a damn good idea of what we're dealing with here).

For me, bands like these are the real custodians of the spirit of death doom metal, without any of the gothic pretensions the more popular acts employ to sweeten their sound, and the true cadaverous heirs to the likes of Winter, Autopsy and Asphyx as they take death doom to a new level of putrescence. A great taster for both bands' expected new full-lengths.