Rating: 5.7

Country: Spain

Release Date: 2001

Record Label: Hecatombe Records

Track list:
1. Storm Of Pestilence
2. The Corpse Dragger
3. Cannibalism Now
4. Anal Conception
5. Humans Carved
6. Feast In The Morgue
7. Kill The Breed
8. Mutant Church
9. Starving Cannibal
10. Zombie Legion
11. Necrogallery

Rotten Minds - Necrogallery

Joe - Guitarra/Bajo
Juan - Voz
Revilla - Bateria

Ever heard of Rotten Minds? Me neither. Maybe that's why as soon as I set this disc into motion, the music by these self-confessed Spanish retards sprinted out as if they were waiting all their life for this to happen. And I don't blame them for almost stampeding each other flat in doing so because, they were for some reason completely denied even the attention they ought to have deserved.

But now that my heroic speakers have liberated their music, I'll make an attempt to identify them. It appears like they had a rotten national coalition of Fermento's ‘Symbols of Decrepitude, Symbols of Supremacy', Antropomorfia's ‘Engendro' and Christ Denied's split with Bastard Saints. If this classification failed to evoke any reaction from you, not even a gaseous one, then I'll go ahead and liken some their music to Cannibal Corpse and their techy twisted riff playing to bands like Damnable and the Turkish Cenotaph. I'm going to back off now.

Despite fostering rot in their minds, they have been able to contrive some decent death metal "riffs" (for example in "Kill The Breed") and I'm not talking about the brutal ones. But now that I unintentionally have, I think I should laud their ability of playing those brutal riffs in a fairly satisfying manner. And while I'm at it I must also say that they dispatch those body tugging hooks and provocative groovy parts quite well and at the right time; I can even picture the flexing multi-limbed baby on their cover wiggling to them.

Rotten Minds are usually in good control of their pace and sometimes deliberately slow down to kidnap your attention and blast away when they almost surely have. The blasting is done via a drum machine which allows them break all speed limits like in "Anal Conception" but thankfully they don't do that a lot. Also with the fact that their drum machine sounds like the one used by Christ Denied, most of the turbulence is controlled. The vocals too are akin to Christ Denied's Dave Rotten, well not as good, but cool anyway. Sometimes he panics and starts rasping and screaming like mad, like Reinfection actually, and in the title song particularly (flaunting a lovely groove), it sounds as if the drummer is hitting him repeatedly on the throat with a stick which I find not only amusing but also thrilling for some reason.

Overall 'Necrogallery' is a decent effort but it's quite generic and meant mainly for the ones with rotten minds. But if these guys come out with a new album, I'm sure they will rot a lot of healthy minds as well.

January 20th, 2006