A glance at some of the names that appeared alongside Cali deathsludge duo Decrepitaph on their various split 7"s might give you a clue as to what this band sounds like: sharing vinyl alongside Anatomia and Father Befouled pretty much mandates that you're going to be monstrously heavy doom-laden death metal, and Decrepitaph deliver this sound at it's most warped and barbaric. Their latest Cd is Forgotten Scriptures, a collection of previously released and out-of-print material taken from their various splits, and it's all ultra-ugly, reptilian deathsludge that nearly gave me a concussion. It turns out that one of the guys in the band is Wayne Sarantopoulos, who goes by the name Elektrokutioner for his myriad other bands (Encoffination, Father Befouled, and Wooden Stake just to name a few).

This project definitely has his mark all over it: slow, painfully raw and off-kilter death metal that leans far over to the more doom-drenched slugfuck end of the spectrum. This is probably the most primitive, noise-damaged and sloppy of all of the Elektrokutioner stuff, but it's the best kind of sloppy when you're listening to this sort of stuff, a willful barbarism and murkiness in the performance that transforms this music into a shambling, rotting graveyard monstrosity, rife with ghastly vocals that melt like adipocere into the grinding noisy heaviness.

I also really dug the warped dissonant riffs and mangled chords give this a disturbed, off-kilter feel, and the duo also incorporated some neat 80's style horror synth ambience into their Resurrecting and Rotting 7". There are a few scattered moments where Decrepitaph rip into a blasting fast part that gets so chaotic and muddled that it borders on noisecore, but most of this is a kind of slithering atonal doomdeath that hits a fuckin ten on the heavyometer. There's thirteen tracks in all collected in Scriptures, including all of the material from Decrepitaph's split 7"s with Japanese doomdeath metallers Anatomia, Eternal Solstice, Eroded, Meathole Infection, and Father Befouled, the tracks from the split 12" with Offal, an unreleased rehearsal track, and a live track recorded in Houston, Texas in 2009. Includes an eight page booklet filled with the release details of each Ep featurted on the disc. Highly recommended to fans of the primitive, bludgeoning deathsludge of Coffins, Fistula, Autopsy, and old-school crushers like Asphyx and Cianide.