February 7, 2025| Rob Bown | RELEASE REVIEW
Final Resting Place – Bound By Affliction | EP Review
It's 20/04/1999, get your baggy jeans on and head down to the metal show for all the slamming breakdowns you could want.
This is a bit of a different one, looking back all the way to April 20th 1999 to the release of the brand-new EP by Final Resting Place. No, not really. The new EP is out on the 7th of February 2025, but any band bold enough to fake the release date and follow that up with the disgusting mass that is Bound By Affliction, all whilst paying homage to the aesthetic of a release from that time, is a band worth checking out.
The EP is a heady mix of baked bean can snare (complimentary) and disgusting guttural vocals that would have any brutal death metal band worth their salt blushing, and guitars/production that is so filthy even their own mother wouldn’t touch them. That’s all part of the aesthetic, though, and you can’t help but get carried away with it. Final Resting Place take you on a slap-happy tour through thirteen or so minutes of mosh inciting, spin kicking death metal with a healthy helping of hardcore influence.
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There’s not much in the way of dynamics here; each song is equally bludgeoning as the last. From the eerie industrial-inspired opener to the crushing beatdown riffs of the title track, this is non-stop action. It harks back to a simpler time of massively oversized jeans with soggy bottom cuffs, and backwards hats supporting sports teams that no one wearing them is actually interested in. What you will get when you put on this meaty little EP is smacked upside the head, and dragged through some woods before you meet your inevitable end, and honestly, it’s worth it.
This is the second release from Final Resting Place in as many years, and if this one’s anything to go by then they should be considered to be on an upward trajectory, maybe upgrade to a large tin bathtub for the snare on the next release, and they’ll be all the way over. It’s easy to see how this could be an absolute riot to see live, although be prepared for the crowd killing crew to be in full flow, as this is essentially 13 minutes of slamming breakdowns.
