Review by Vladimir on July 8, 2023.

Time to dive deep into the graves full of maggots and rotting flesh, with a US death metal band Grave Disgust and their demo Within Eternal Rot, released on February 29th, 2020 as an independent release.

The demo begins with an interesting intro track which reminds me of some retro horror movie with zombies that was directed by Lucio Fulci in the 70’s and 80’s. The rest is raw death metal from the grave which is quite oldschool, both in sound and style. The riffs are extremely groovy and atmospheric, which were obviously influenced by Scandinavian death metal bands from the late 80’s/early 90’s which carried that type of darkness to it. The drumming is not all that different from that Scandinavian death metal style, because it incorporates d-beats and mid-tempo that were common back in the day before blast beats became a “must do thing”. The vocals are a bit of a downer because you can barely hear them, even though you can tell that the growling technique was used here. There is even an addition which is a cover of Beherit’s song 'Black Arts' as the final track on the demo, which I guess is there for the purpose of prolonging the demo’s runtime. Although there are a total of five tracks, the overall demo is very short with its 12 minutes of total length, which I guess isn’t all that bad considering that it’s a demo recording. There isn’t much to say about the sound production apart from the fact that it’s raw and grotesque, although like I said the vocal mix is definitely the weakest link on the demo.

Within Eternal Rot isn’t all that great, but it is a solid attempt of a rotten death metal style. I guess this isn’t all too bad for people who like to collect and discover very obscure bands that try their best at sounding oldschool as possible, so I would recommend that you check out Grave Disgust.

Rating: 6 out of 10