{"id":17495,"date":"2026-03-17T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heavensmetalmagazine.com\/?p=17495"},"modified":"2026-03-17T07:42:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:42:00","slug":"review-afflicted-truth-slowly-the-body-rots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heavensmetalmagazine.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/review-afflicted-truth-slowly-the-body-rots\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Afflicted Truth \u2014 Slowly the Body Rots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>From the Vault Review: Afflicted Truth &#8211;&nbsp;<em>Slowly the Body Rots<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If ever there was an album ripe for a revamped album cover, it\u2019s this one. Depicting what looks to be a severely wounded, corpse-like figure dragging itself up a path towards a church, the execution of the art is decidedly very rough. But imagine it redone professionally, and it could be one of the coolest album covers in Christian metal history. It&#8217;s just begging for a rerelease! But I digress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who discovered South Africa\u2019s Afflicted Truth via&nbsp;<em>The Seeking of Redemption<\/em>&nbsp;might be in for a bit of a jolt when they venture all the way back to the band\u2019s early demo from 2000,&nbsp;<em>Slowly the Body Rots<\/em>. Even the most casual death metal fan is going to pick up on the obvious nod to Obituary\u2019s classic debut&nbsp;<em>Slowly We Rot<\/em>, but that\u2019s where any similarities to Florida\u2019s death metal titans ends. You won\u2019t find any dirge-like sludgefests or atmospheric horror on here like you would on an early Obituary record; no, Afflicted Truth are death\/grind and deal strictly in assaulting the listener not only with a Christian message but a heinous amount of blastbeats and guttural vocals to boot.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s interesting, however, is how the band\u2019s earliest demo I can find is somewhat different than the high-speed assaults of later records.&nbsp;<em>Slowly the Body Rots<\/em>&nbsp;is an ugly record that methodically hammers rather than blitzes with hyperblasting and fiery guitar pyrotechnics.&nbsp; It\u2019s also one of the only recordings by the band to feature not only main man Hilton Lazenby, but his brother Grant Lazenby as well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like I said,&nbsp;<em>Slowly the Body Rots<\/em>&nbsp;is a slightly different affair from later records. Where other ones are blindingly intense, this one goes for a sound more akin to the goregrind noise of Deophobic Necrosis, the hideous gurgling of early Abated Mass of Flesh, with even a touch here or there of early Incantation. Grotesque is the operative word here, with Hilton Lazenby\u2019s bowel-shaking gurgling sounding especially intense on this one. For an Afflicted Truth record, this one leans far more in a death metal direction than a grind one, due to its slower tempos and lessened emphasis on the usual shock-and-awe approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re a big fan of death\/grind as a style, this is definitely a release you\u2019ll want to check out; for what it lacks in intensity when compared to Afflicted Truth\u2019s later releases, it makes up for in its skin-crawling tone, industrial cold, and ominous feel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coleiosis.bandcamp.com\/album\/slowly-the-body-rots\">Check it out HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>For Fans Of: Deophobic Necrosis, Broken Flesh (early), Incantation (first album), Flesh Incineration, Abated Mass of Flesh (early), Circle of Dead Children<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Vault Review: Afflicted Truth &#8211;&nbsp;Slowly the Body Rots If ever there was 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