FLATUS was initially a four piece, formed by guitarist Daniel Majer as a ‘just for fun’ CARCASS tribute act who made two festival appearances in 2012 and 2013, performing a set of material lifted exclusively from the first two records: “… with humble respect similar to that of a seasoned funeral director, Flatus pay homage to the bludgeoning, gunge-soaked, cadaver-ridden human slaughterhouse that was Carcass circa 1987-89”. In 2014 the band recorded the ‘Pizza of Putrefaction’ mini-EP which featured two covers plus two original compositions written in the same musical style. The CD was released in insanely limited edition ‘Pizza Box’ packaging with scratch-n-sniff pizza stickers, and as a free download on the bands Bandcamp page.
Now performing as a “power trio”, 2015 saw a trimmed down line-up and the release of ‘Death Metal Is A Rotting Corpse’, an album containing five new tunes that expanded on the bands previous Carcass worship to include different textures and influences, plus a death-metalised version of a track by BLACKSTAR, featuring none other than ex-Carcass/Blackstar axeman Carlo Regadas on guest lead guitar. The albums initial release was limited to 50 hand-numbered copies presented in a special... more
