photos by Chris Eaton
20 Buck Spin’s first release of 2025 arrives, as the harrowing eponymous debut LP from Austin, Texas-based death metal quartet CORPUS OFFAL is being prepared for release this Friday.
The unexpected demise of Cerebral Rot came swiftly after two renowned cult albums. Yet just as expediently, a malodorous new organism arose in its place, CORPUS OFFAL. Still featuring Cerebral Rot’s rancid core of guitarist/vocalist Ian Schwab (ex-Demoncy) and guitarist Clyle Lindstrom (Fetid, Caustic Wound), the CORPUS OFFAL rhythm section of bassist Jason Sachs (ex-Demoncy) and drummer Jesse Shreibman (Bell Witch) now summons intensely elevated waves of stomach-churning nausea. After last year’s demo defloration, CORPUS OFFAL presents its eponymous full-length, erupting like a festering corpse dragged from a midnight sewer; putrid, pulverizing and perversely invigorating.
A bludgeoning autopsy of death metal, gore, and deathgrind, the low-tuned grooves, discordant leads, and mid-tempo rumble of Cerebral Rot is evident in tracks like “Spinous Forms Of Mortal Abhorrence” and the title track while setting the bar for a melted transformation into more ghastly liquified forms. The gargling slime vox of Schwab are dangerously radioactive, summoned straight from the sealed basement of a nuked morgue narrating a splatter-fest of morbid poetry, decomposing flesh, absurd experiments, and gruesome transgression. Each song plays out like a medical examiner’s case file crossed with the fevered ramblings of a psychopath—precise in its anatomical horror and repugnant in its bizarre depravity.
Consecrated with an impossibly heavy Billy Anderson production, by the time CORPUS OFFAL reaches its cataclysmic conclusion, you’re left drained, disoriented, and left wondering whether you’ve survived a masterpiece or witnessed the musical equivalent of a snuff film. So, enter the crematorium, inhale deeply and be filled with the corporeal intoxication of CORPUS OFFAL’s carnage. This is a sonic slaughterhouse and you’re the carcass. Fans of Cerebral Rot, Fetid, Disgorge, Cenotaph, Goatlord, Undergang, and Cianide should not miss this.
Corpus Offal was recorded at Jackpot! Recording Studio/Everything Hz, engineered by Billy Anderson (Melvins, Sleep, Bell Witch), mastered by Dan Lowndes Resonance Sound, and completed with art by Karina Monzon and layout by Dan Fried. The video for the LP’s title track was directed, filmed, and edited by Chris Eaton.
Stream CORPUS OFFAL’s eponymous debut early only on YouTube RIGHT HERE.
Corpus Offal wil be released this Friday, March 21st on LP, CD, and digital platforms. Preorders can be placed at the 20 Buck Spin webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE, and if you missed it, watch the terrifying video the title track HERE.
CORPUS OFFAL will launch a widespread US incursion supporting the album. The band will tour across the country alongside Mephitic Corpse from April 26th through May 29th, including a set at the Maryland Deathfest XX official pre-fest on May 21st. See all confirmed dates below and watch for additional live dates to post.
CORPUS OFFAL w/ Mephitic Corpse:
4/26/2025 Black Magic Social Club – Houston, TX
4/29/2025 Nile Underground – Phoenix, AZ
4/30/2025 Knucklehead – Los Angeles, CA
5/01/2025 Eli’s Mile High – Oakland, CA
5/02/2025 High Water Mark – Portland, OR
5/03/2025 Belltown Yacht Club – Seattle, WA
5/04/2025 The Shredder – Boise, ID
5/06/2025 Aces High – Salt Lake City, UT
5/07/2025 Hi-Dive – Denver, CO
5/09/2025 X-Ray Arcade – Milwaukee, WI
5/10/2025 Cobra Lounge – Chicago, IL
5/11/2025 Black Circle – Indianapolis, IN
5/12/2025 TBA – Detroit, MI
5/13/2025 Ace Of Cups – Columbus, OH
5/14/2025 No Class – Cleveland, OH
5/15/2025 Smiling Moose – Pittsburgh, PA
5/16/2025 Cobra Cabana – Richmond, VA
5/17/2025 TV Eye – Queens, NY
5/18/2025 Atlas Brew Works – Washington, DC
5/20/2025 Kung Fu Necktie – Philadelphia, PA
5/21/2025 Maryland Deathfest Pre-Fest @ Soundstage – Baltimore, MD
5/27/2025 Chapel Of Bone – Raleigh, NC
5/28/2025 529 – Atlanta, GA
5/29/2025 Holy Diver – New Orleans, LA
5/31/2025 Hotel Vegas – Austin, TX
“…the CORPUS OFFAL contingent, like maggots festering around a swollen corpse’s anal tract, fill the orifice of the USDM scene left gaping by Cerebral Rot’s demise…” – Decibel Magazine
“Easily one of the most heated acts of mayhemic aggression worth hearing thus far in 2025.” – Mystification Zine
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