MORTUARY SICKNESS - Terminal Sickness (Live EP) Recorded live at the Barwon Club, August 22, 2025. DISGUSTING, GLORIOUS COSMIC DEATH METAL.

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MORTUARY SICKNESS - Terminal Sickness (Live EP)
Recorded live at the Barwon Club, August 22, 2025

There's something beautifully rotten about a band that knows exactly what kind of filth they're peddling. Mortuary Sickness isn't here to reinvent the wheel—they're here to drag it through a slaughterhouse and leave it festering in the sun.
Terminal Sickness is three tracks of unvarnished savagery, captured live with all the warts, feedback squeals, and crowd noise intact. This is the anti-production death metal record: no studio polish, no second takes, just the sound of a band in a room making an unholy racket.


Opening cut "Terminal Transcendence" hints at where the band's headed—cosmic death metal that still reeks of the grave. It's got that cavernous, suffocating atmosphere but shot through with enough hooks to keep your head moving even as your stomach turns. This is apparently a taste of what's coming next, and if the full release hits this hard, we're in for something genuinely nasty.

"Diabolic Rites of Agony" proves these guys can write a riff. Pulled from last year's What Lies Beyond..., it's the most immediately gratifying track here—disgusting and heavy, sure, but also infectiously groovy in that brutish, knuckle-dragging way that makes you want to kick over the nearest amplifier.

Then there's "Blessed Are the Sick"—the oldest cut in the set, exhumed from their Dark Tendrils of Disease demo—and it's exactly as primitive as you'd hope. This is basement-dwelling death metal at its most feral: sloppy, vicious, and utterly committed to its own barbarism.
What makes Terminal Sickness work isn't technical prowess or innovative songwriting—it's intent. This sounds like a band that gives zero fucks about streaming algorithms or playlist placements. They showed up, plugged in, and bludgeoned an audience for twenty minutes. The recording captures that raw energy perfectly: you can practically smell the stale beer and feel the sweat dripping off the walls.
In an era of overproduced, trigger-replaced death metal, Mortuary Sickness offer something increasingly rare: authenticity. This is ugly, uncompromising, and exactly what underground death metal should sound like.
For fans of: Autopsy, early Incantation, Undergang, and anyone who thinks death metal got soft after 1993.

Rating: 9.9/10 — Disgusting in the best possible way.
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