Recorruptor - Sorrow Will Drown Us All

Recorruptor – Sorrow Will Drown Us All
Release Date: 18th July 2025
Label: Time To Kill Records
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Genre: Death Metal (The Fast sort)
FFO: Aborted, Cattle Decapitation, Suffocation.
Review By: Mark Young

So, as I was listening to this absolute assault on my senses I suddenly thought of Predator (the original, Arnie, Carl Weathers etc), specifically the moment just after Blaine is killed, and the remaining team let loose enough ammo to wipe out a small town. Mac, having decided that his own gun just wasn’t cutting the mustard, picks up the mini gun allowing one of the greatest scenes of destruction ever committed to celluloid to unfold. Admittedly, they destroyed a lot of jungle, but it looked great.

Sorrow Will Drown Us All, the third album released by Recorruptor is basically that scene but in audio form; a collection of songs that have one goal which is to be as fast as possible. And then go faster.

It starts off with a fairly inauspicious manner, Bathe in the Ashes of Heaven is the now expected instrumental/intro track that does nothing. It certainly doesn’t prepare you for what comes next, as the title track comes roaring in, and we spend the next 46 minutes hearing these tracks blast by. The first noticeable slow down comes with Urn of Verglas, but it’s a false dawn. It’s literally the calm before the storm as they crank that speed back up, and it takes off, leaving you in its dust.

And here lies a bit of problem. Those first four songs are that fast that they fly by without actually leaving an indent on you, such is the ferocity in which they are played. It also means that they are hitting you on a superficial level so that it’s ‘Holy crap, this stuff is fast’ but means that you are soon worn down by that unrelenting pace. Now for some, this may be the best thing ever, but for others, not so much. Envenoming sees them take it down a touch, but it’s still quick. Slow, focused riffs Vs double bass in a classic fight to the death. It’s a belter, with some low-end riffing, and shows that they can do more than just super speed attacks. An Unnatural Lust keeps this style in place, and suddenly the album takes on a new light as they bring that measured but frenetic approach to bear whilst the drums take an absolute pounding. It’s speed but not for speed’s sake and rescues this album from being just one built solely on speed. Even though Devoured by Centipedes has that foot to the floor mentality it has that build that is similar in form to the two before it, in that there is a flow to it so it makes sense and resonates with you.

Did I mention how good it sounds? No? It’s quality, everything is audible no matter what speed it’s deployed at and for an example of this check out the main verse on Insidious Rot, which continues that upward ascent of just top-class death metal. Their final statement is Scourge of Prometheus, which sees them return to the style of go fast or go home. That is probably unfair and a lazy description as there is more to it than that, but it still follows the same path as those first four tracks that blew past like a missile. For me this is a tale of two styles, both are fast and aggressive, but one has more thought to it and therefore hits home. You could probably use Scourge as an example of both styles in one place, where it’s that unreal speed combined with the slower, methodical beats. From a metal perspective, this does everything that their bio said it would and in doing so they have provided some high quality death metal that should be held up as a benchmark. It shows that you don’t have to have the same ‘sound’ as everybody else, that detuned 7 or 8 string modern approach that feels like it is everywhere. Had those early songs had the same approach as the later ones, we would be talking about an AOTY contender. They will have to settle for just being very good.