Band: GOROTICA (Aus)
Album: "Daily Grind of the Medieval Age"

Tracklist
1. Dirge of the Breaking Wheel
2. A Helping Hand
3. The Cannibal’s Servant
4. Head Basket
5. Walking Talking Corpse of the Catacombs
6. Rats in a Bucket
7. Daily Grind of the Medieval Age
8. Sage, Clove and Powdered Bone
9. Obligate Carnivore
10. Connoisseurs of Human Flesh
11. Hung, Drawn and... Quarter to Eleven
12. Nothing Left to Penetrate
13. Procession for the Consumed
14. Skinned Alive
15. Mangled in the Livery
16. The Beast Beneath the Rack
17. Studying the Stump
18. Cavernous Bloody Tomb

:REVIEW:

Gorotica are back ready to steamroll us once again. Australia’s premier deathgrind trio drop Daily Grind of the Medieval Age, and it’s a full-on medieval bloodbath that doesn’t give in for a single second. Clocking in at thirty five minutes over eighteen tracks, it’s fast, filthy, and fucking unhinged, leaving our necks sore and brains rattled.
The album kicks off with “Dirge of the Breaking Wheel,” a haunting intro that sets the scene for the chaos to come, before “A Helping Hand” tears into it from the get go with riffs and blast beats that hit like Mike bloody Tyson in the heyday. Tracks “Rats in a Bucket” and “Studying the Stump” are pure grindcore filth sounding manic, relentless, & wonderfully grotesque. Then “Connoisseurs of Human Flesh” hits with a video ready shitstorm of decapitation and medieval debauchery that sums up everything Gorotica do best, vicious, darkly funny, and utterly bonkers.
Jon Von Cannibale is a fucking monster here, switching between guttural growls, tortured shrieks, and downright horrifying screams with effortless menace. Raymonde Peste’s drums tear rip through every second, and Gaspard La Verge lays down riffs so thick and filthy that we need to scrub extra hard in the shower tonight. Prod wise, it balances clarity with filth perfectly hearing every sick twist perfectly, yet still feeling like this beast crawled out of a plague ridden crypt.
Gorotica mix brutality with twisted humour and theatrical flair making this a grim, morbid, funhouse ride through the Middle Ages. If you’re into gore, groove, and pure extremity, this is hands down THE album to lose your goddamn mind to.

Review written by FuegoCasa in collaboration with Headbangers Australia in October 2025.