### Leptotrichia: The repository

#### 14/12/10 || Habakuk

I’m not gonna start this review by looking up in a dictionary what the band name means. I am not interested. The only thing I take out of it and acknowledge is that these guys go for what basically everyone else in their subgenre does. Think of something mysogynistic/porn/sickness/blah related and play brutal death metal to go with it. The concept is stupid and I don’t like it. The music is another story.

It’s not like these five Belgians are reinventing the noose (note well-placed Suffocation reference), but they know exactly what they want and how to do it. Which is basically a very consistent barrage of high speed, blast-driven and pitched harmonics-laden death metal, together with lots of (not the metalcore type, but riff-based) breakdowns thrown in for good measure. It never gets very technical, but of course they serve the standard platter of movie samples that we all love so much. Those are supposed to make the whole thing more interesting or something, I don’t know. But guess what, they suck ass. Always have. Sticking closely to all the unwritten genre laws though, I guess Leptotrichia cannot be blamed for that. I only blame them for merely repeating what countless others have done before.

However, as competently executed as this is, I can’t say I’m really angry at them. You know what to expect, and they deliver in high quality, with a good grunter, tight playing and a production that doesn’t sound as sterile and overdone as most modern “brutal”/pro-tool releases do. So, while the drumming is obviously intense, there is enough room for the meaty guitars to shine, which – as always – leads to the bass being choked and nowhere to be found.

Not intended to take the listener on a musical journey through the spheres, and with a total length of 34 minutes something, the whole thing is over before you can say “Twisted Gynecologist”, but that’s just fine by me when I’m looking for a brutality snack and have run out of Beef Jerky. This album is better than most other underground (or under-underground) releases from the genre that I’ve heard recently, so I believe anyone interested in brutal death can’t go wrong with checking these folks out.

- Information
- Released: 2010
- Label: SFC Records
- Website: Leptotrichia MySpace
- Band
- Necromuyncke: vocals
- Zitter: guitars
- Lander: guitars
- Koene: bass
- Nico: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. Into Desperation
- 02. Insidious Disease
- 03. Split and Swallow
- 04. Peg Out in Gastric Juice
- 05. Surviving the Fivefould Fitted Fistfuck
- 06. Abused by God
- 07. Genital Blood Excretion
- 08. A Lost Lamb
- 09. Shitworld
- 10. The Wicked land