FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY
Oh What The Future Holds
NUCLEAR BLAST
New Jersey’s deathcore destroyers unleash a modern classic
FIT FOR AN Autopsy started peeling away from the rest of the pack on 2015’s Absolute Hope Absolute Hell. That album was their first to feature current vocalist Joe Badolato, and saw the New Jersey innovators, led by esteemed guitarist-producer, Will Putney, stretch the boundaries of deathcore, incorporating melodic textures, technical virtuosity, and emotive themes into their slam attack. They took that growth to even further heights on 2017’s The Great Collapse and 2019’s excellent The Sea Of Tragic Beasts. So, with the gauntlet laid down and a standard set that’s way beyond the capabilities of many of their contemporaries, the expectations going into the band’s sixth album are vertiginous.
surpasses them all. First set the scope months ago, escalating from an expansive, Gojira-influenced build-up and a murmured clean vocal into a storm of ominous riffs and monstrous groove. It was followed by , an onslaught of triple-guitar Gothenburg riffery that saw Joe, by now cemented as one of the most diverse, intense vocalists in the game, unleashing hell on the rich who unceasingly shaft the rest of the planet ( and ‘). It was completed by an almost serene solo and a filth-encrusted breakdown tighter than a gnat’s arse.
