Featuring members of He Whose Ox is Gored, FILTH IS ETERNAL’s latest full length sees the band lean into grimier sludge punk tendencies with distinctly southern metal leanings, whilst retaining the whiplash speed and stop-start freneticism of their hardcore roots. Early album highlights On The Rake and Private Room showcase a band possessed by dangerously unchecked adrenaline and punk’n’roll swagger, lashing out at society’s ills in under two minute bursts. Later in the runtime, album closer and namesake, Filth Is Eternal aurally embodies the band’s transformation – with a four minute embrace of rhythmic pummelling rather than high tempo thrashing.
Containing 12 songs in 20 minutes, LOVE IS A LIE, FILTH IS ETERNAL might well be brief – but it’s in this confident precision and urgency that FILTH IS ETERNAL thrive in hammering their message home. This is all the more potent due to the musical nuance that provides the backbone to vocalist Lisa Mungo’s acrimony and ire, with a rhythm section that boasts an alternative rock-by-way-of-Trap Them level of stomp. Rebirthed and renewed, but the same signature bite in tact, you owe it to yourself to embrace the filth.
1. On The Rake
2. The Chain
3. Strange Men
4. Private Room
5. Wigsplitter
6. Love is a Lie
7. Deeper Void
8. Nosebleed
9. The Dog
10. The Ritual
11. Pearl Slug
12. Filth Is Eternal