One song per ghost story, and ten stories, and Cutterred Flesh have their new album out since 13 November through Transcending Obscurity Records, streaming in full.
The concept is the thing: each of the ten compositions takes a different horror story as its source, with H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert W. Chambers and Algernon Blackwood among the writers on the tracklist.
Twenty five years into the Czech underground the band have not gone further into extremity so much as sideways. The record builds on the progressive turn of their previous two albums, and they have put the work into arrangements that move rather than simply hit: the weight of brutal death metal stays, with more room for atmosphere and rhythmic variation.
Cutterred Flesh formed in 2001. The full album stream is on the label's channel, which also carries their videos for "Le Horla" and "The Letter U".
It is their fourth album in that stretch and the second for Transcending Obscurity, a label that has made a habit of this corner of European death metal.