Self-released digitally in late January of 2018 and released in limited quantity on CD and Cassette in Russia, Redefining Darkness Records are proud to announce Wombripper's "From the Depths of Flesh" Special Extended Edition featuring 2 brand new previously unreleased tracks, and a 3rd bonus track "Morbid Aberration" taken from a Split release with Torn Apart in August of 2017.
For fans of Rotten Sound, Dismember, and Entrails
"This fledgling Russian death metal band describe themselves “Pure HM-2 sound Old School Death Metal” and that is more or less all you really need to know before jumping into their debut full-length. I find that folks either live by the ultra-overdriven multi-tracked Swedish signature sound, or they’re bored with it. I’m pretty much in the middle where find the buzzsaw sound, pioneered by Uffe Cederlund/Tomas Skogsberg, powerful within music of varied pace and mind-numblingly useless otherwise. Wombripper’s riffing is such that it feels less tuned to their guitar sound than they suggest, and it could work just as well without it. In fact, they might be better off without it.
‘From the Depths of Flesh’ is immediately familiar territory that bands like Fleshcrawl and Horrid have explored in depth but they keep it interesting with a few melodic benders and some death/doom lunges. The crunchy Incantation-esque pinch harmonics in the refrain of “Immolation Rites” is the first brief glimpse of personality on the record and “Frantic Exhumation” pulls a big monster riff almost directly from Entrails‘ playbook. “Locked in the Iced Coffin” is probably the best track here as it channels equal parts Nirvana 2002 and ‘The God that Never Was’ era Dismember.
Even if Wombripper aren’t out to hit the reset button on this burly guitar driven death metal style they do a good job of it. It seems like a genre in and of itself that won’t go away anytime soon. Their debut is exceptional only for it’s more adventurous moments and a really solid drummer who shouldn’t be limited to the d-beaten slog of ‘Entombed metal’. I would highly recommend this if you’ve exhausted your old Entrails and Vomitory records and just need more, otherwise it is more or less rote."
- Grizzly Butts
grizzlybutts.com/2018/02/21/wombripper-from-the-depths-of-flesh-2018-review/
"[Wombripper's] "From the Depths of Flesh" is a very dirty, rowdy, rebellious recording. Jump on the cover of coffins, skulls burst pressure, death hovers everywhere. Russians managed to record many morbid and sharp cut lobster plate that has a single task. Kill you pressure and energy. Graves are opened, the mutilated bodies climb out. Today will be a long night. Run your life! Eventually leaving only says seasoned fans who TEPO in the veins of the same pieces of ice, as WOMBRIPPER . I like the classic ratchet noise admire underground container. I am having a voice from beyond the grave, fully give themselves riffs. I chopped, torn, destroyed and still have the appetite for more songs. " From the Depths of Flesh" is my album, which hit me on the most sensitive areas. I cursed forever and once it breaks up into dust, I still listen to the news Russian maniacs. This is old school death metal with the highest quality! Take or leave it, there is nothing in between! The massacre, inferno, death! Excellent Swedish death metal, which come to life in the undead!"
- Deadly Storm
deadly-storm.blogspot.com/2018/02/recenzereview-wombripper-from-depths-of.html
"Wombripper is a 4-piece band from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia that started in 2012. Wombripper play a raw and dirty style of oldschool death metal. After releasing a 5-track mini-album in 2014, a digital 4-track ep in 2017 and a split-ep cassette with Torn Apart in 2017, 'From The Depths Of Flesh' is now their first full-length album released on cd and in digital format. The cd can be puchased via their bandcamp page. This album is well reminiscent of the good old death metal bands from the late 80's and 90's and a killer release. Really great stuff.! Highly recommended.!!"
- Dead Air at the Pulpit
www.deadpulpit.com/2018/02/wombripper-from-depths-of-flesh-2018.html
"Wombripper's first full-length installment is a pilgrimage to the Swedeath legacy of bands like Entombed and Grave, and to a lesser extent, Florida OSDM. Sound production is spot on (the cymbals' texture is sublime!) in sustaining the well-above-average musicianship of these Russians, as they shift from death/thrash metal pacing, to slow and deep grooves, some of them adorned with really good/melodic guitar soloing. Favorite track: Locked in the Iced Coffin."
- Sputnik Music
www.sputnikmusic.com/soundoff.php?albumid=275125