Saturday, June 15, 2013

Carnage Pit (FIN) - Ritual (2010)


Country: Finland
Released on: self-released

Tracklist:

1. Dogmatic Bestiality 04:26
2. Swarm of Maggots 03:30
3. Ritual 05:03
4. Dead Legions of Zaphon 02:32
5. Gore-Soaked Whore 05:41
6. Scorned by Messiah 07:59

29:11

My constant struggle to dig out good material in the underground has finally been rewarded again. I just stumbled upon the Ritual EP by a Finnish outfit called Carnage Pit.
First, take a look at the lenght of this release. That's right almost 30 minutes for an EP and every minute is worth it (and no samples, that go on your nerves). Too much bands throw out a 20 minute shit release and call it a full-lenght. Fuck that.
The song-writing is interesting, dynamic and sounds more mature than most of the debut releases of other bands. Intense, technical, grindy and brutal material. I think it’s a drum machine at work there, but the overall impression doesn’t suffer from this. The vocals are a bastard between Defloration (Ger) and maybe Vomitory (Swe), but definitely more on the Death Metal side. I hear so many great parts in the song structures, brilliantly executed technical parts, high speed blasting parts, grindy parts, Nile like parts at some instances (absolutely love that, check out Ritual and Scorned by Messiah and listen closely). Great mixture.The guitar work is excellent and very technical. I love it. The solo work is amazing and absolutely entertaining. The thick and deep as fuck bass sounds through a lot (in the middle of Ritual it’s just amazingly done), which I absolutely like. I like how these guys mix a lot of good elements in Death Metal and Grindcore together, it just sounds vital and authentic. These guys put a lot of thought and passion into this EP and it shows. Very well done guys!

Aggressive, fast, grindy, technical, harmonic, brutal. This great release catched me off guard.

90%

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Precognitive Holocaust Annotations (int.) - Annunciation of Extermination (2013)


Country: Italy
Released on: Permeated Records

Tracklist:

1. Waking Hallucination 02:38
2. Cellular Preconnection 02:15
3. Calculating Magnitudo 02:46
07:39

Next Italian release is one with my bro Hannes (Indecent Excision) from Italy. Their new promo Annunciation of Extermination has been eagerly awaited by a lot of people.
The three songs on this promo are heavily produced BDM with brilliant recording quality. The bass is perfectly audible and the wobbling sound of it together with the slam ridden riffing is excellent. The drum sound is saturated and differentiated. The snare is relatively soft and not too harsh and fits perfectly for the overall concept.
The song writing is just brilliant and I am almost certain, that Hannes wrote the music, although I haven’t asked him. The Italian gene of creating balanced, dynamic and excellent song structures in DM/BDM is just too apparent. While the focus of this promo certainly lies on heavy slamming, it doesn’t drift too much in the Russian slam type of music. The heavy slam parts are regularly followed by faster mid tempo groove passages and fast blast parts. Weird and very memorable guitar leads together with the short intro sequences create a Wormed (ESP) or Annihilation (CN) kind of space vibe. I really love that concept. It brings a lot of dynamic elements to the music.
Lühring’s (Defeated Sanity) vocal performance is once again outstanding. He fits perfectly into the concept of this promo and his experience as a vocalist is very well implemented into the bigger picture.

A very entertaining, excellently written, dynamic and well produced promo. Can’t wait to hold this promo and the debut album in my hands.

88%

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Logic of Denial (IT) - Atonement (2013)


Country: Italy
Released on: Comatose Music

Tracklist:

1. Reek of Perpetual Infamy 03:15
2. Weeping upon Repugnance 04:00
3. Behold the Throne of Torture 03:11
4. Vile Blessing Prelude 03:20
5. The Ravenous Patterns (of Oblivion) 02:52
6. Sepsis 03:56
7. Catharsis Through Ungodly Annihilation 03:40
8. Apocrypha 03:25
9. Oracles of Iniquity 03:27
10. Ecthra 04:27
11. Despondency 04:35
40:08

Let’s start the Italian week with Logic of Denial’s new album called Atonement. I don’t know if the Italians are the master race, or why all of their their BDM/DM bands are so brilliant. And Logic of Denial are no exception.
Their new effort is technical, fast, orthodox and brutal as hell. In the tradition of other Italian Death Metal bands they combine extreme musical brilliance, supreme song-writing, excellent vocal work and a totally harmonic mixture of traditional Death Metal with the more modern Brutal Death Metal approach, intensity and extreme speed, forging everything together what makes BDM/DM great. This for me has always been the reason why I consider Italian bands the absolute elite of today’s global BDM/DM scene.
The album starts with a quick fade in that regorges into a furious and powerful blast orgy right away. This is the way you start an album and this reminded me again on how much intros suck. The sound is gorgeous. The incredible drum work is so tight and sounds just so organic, leaving me with an excited smile. The stamina of this guy must be immense. The riffing is a perfect harmony between technical and extremely well written structures and pounding mid tempo intermezzos, loosened up by an insane solo from time to time. The dynamic and the intensity of this album are just gorgeous and it’s such a pleasure to listen to this piece of art. Some playful moments remind me a bit of a brutalized version of the late Behemoth, but they are suddenly cut off by another blast attack. What’s happening on this record is just grand. The vocals are just so massive, so intense, absolutely furious and dripping with wrath. The sheer speed of the music is a festival of extremity, pushing Death Metal to the limits again, where it belongs.


This record makes me smile. I love how new and old styles join together, how intense it is, how brutal and fast it is, how extremely good the song writing is. This is Italian BDM/DM in its purest and best form. A huge step for Logic of Denial.

95%

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Concerning BDM: Less fashion, more passion

I want to start with a little anecdote. I was on a festival some years ago and wore some skate shoes, basketball shorts, a flex fit cap and an Endstille shirt (a German Black Metal band). I have always worn pretty ‘normal’ clothing, some kind of skateboarding style if anything. As I walked across the camping site, some ultra-true Metal fan (the long haired fat dude in a leather jacket kind of fan) shouted “Hey, you fucking Hip Hop fag!” It’s not that this hurt my feelings or anything, but I think this shows very well the typical attitude of most Metal fans.
Now, when I first entered the Death Metal scene and especially the Brutal Death Metal scene I thought that it was a very mature and relaxed scene. The discrepancy between the mostly very extreme imagery and lyrical content and the attitude of the people on the other hand is remarkable. Compared to other Metal scenes, such as the Heavy, Pagan or Black Metal scene etc., BDM people are mostly pretty ‘normal’ and don’t take everything that seriously (except the music itself of course). There aren’t a lot of posers, wannabes or people alike in the scene. People don’t really care too much about what you wear or other superficial things. Or do they?
Although people in this scene are in fact mostly pretty easygoing dudes, there are regularly things people say, that extremely annoy me. One time some people bitch about Pathology being on Victory Records (a hardcore label) and the label magically turns music into ‘core’ (whatever that is). Or when Acranius members wear contemporary clothing they become gay. The other day it’s Devourment not releasing another MTD and offering baseball caps as merchandise (and by that becoming ‘deathcorish’, needless to say). Or bands becoming extremely overrated, because they have a girl on the mic, or people hate other styles of music (Deathcore, Justin Bieber etc.) and put a huge effort into being extremely childish and irrational. This is a bad and petty attitude.
I always thought that the BDM scene was full of grown up and mature people, but that is at least not true for all. Still people are way too superficial, care a lot about the ‘trveness’ of the image and the fashion around the music and act as if they were the most elite BDM fans. But mostly they are just immature and silly. Of course there are a lot of traditions in the culture of Death Metal and most are important for the authenticity of the music and everything around it, but things like clothing are not amongst them.
What people should care about most is the quality of the music and the love for a great genre. Less fashion, more passion.

Friday, March 22, 2013

Cognizance (UK) - Inquisition (2013)


Country: United Kingdom
Released on: self-released

Tracklist:

1. Clones of the Night Sky 03:28
2. The Perennial Struggle 03:40
3. Epistemology 03:19
4. Defying a Natural Process 03:12
13:39

A study by the European commission recently showed, that file sharing was not only not harming the music industry, but was good for sales. Me finding this underground gem of a band, called Cognizance on a big Death Metal sharing forum shows this once again. Although the CD of this EP is already sold out I am able to listen to this and to inform you about it and recommend this. Anyway.
Just take a look at ths awesome cover. Epic piece of art for an epic release. Brilliant.
This CD is just a brilliant piece of work. It shows how rich and entertaining a technical approach in Death Metal can be. Dynamic song structures, interesting riffing, melodic soli, high paced brutality and musical brilliance are the core ingredients for this piece of work. The song writing is brillant and a real pleasure to listen to. The mixture of creative riff work and solo parts thrown in regularly just works brilliantly. The highly melodic and extremely pleasing solo parts take away nothing of the intensity and brutality of the songs. The vocals are straight forward forced Death Metal growls. Brutal, massive and executed perfectly. The drum work is tight as fuck, fast and accompanies the flying riffs perfectly. The production of this EP is absolutely stunning for a debut release. A rich sound, worthy of a full-lenght. Both the production and the music prove the passion that was put into this self-released CD by these two guys from the UK. This band would be a candidate for the Unique Leader roster. Let's just hope they don't go to that shitty label.

Highly entertaining Death Metal release. Brutal, emotional, fast, technical.

88%

Monday, January 28, 2013

Defeated Sanity (GER) - Passages Into Deformity (2013)


Country: Germany
Released on: Willowtip Records

Tracklist:

1. Initiation 01:15
2. Naraka 05:07
3. Verblendung 04:45
4. Lusting for Transcendence 03:06
5. The Purging 04:59
6. Verses of Deformity 04:17
7. Perspectives 06:49
8. Frenzy 02:36
9. Martyrium 04:50
37:44

I was absolutely stoked to be able to listen to the follow up to what for me is one of the best Brutal Death albums ever written: Chapters of Repugnance. I am not a person who cares to wait till my own CD arrives; I’ll pre-listen to shared digitals anyway. It was clear to me that living up to my extremely high expectations wouldn’t be easy for Defeated Sanity.

To be absolutely frank, this album is just grand. It’s January and I am almost certain that there will be no other release this year that can top Passages Into Deformity for me. Lühring’s vocals fit perfectly into the sound of Defeated Sanity; he has adapted a style quite different to the one he used to have on Despondency. It’s not ultra guttural which has also been what I adored on Chapters of Repugnance with Magana It’s his deep forced Death Metal vocals with a lot of variety. Great performance, we need more of that in BDM, not more gurgle, blubber vocals. The instruments are performed on a level of skill and musical brilliance that just offers unequaled opportunities. The riffs dark, crushing, playful, jazzy, slammy, massive and just dripping with brutality and creativity. The bass lines are chunky, perfectly audible which is brilliant and just awesome in their complexity. Gruber plays the drums with a natural esprit to it and with a brilliant sound that is raw and absolutely brutal and perfect in recording quality at the same time. Just beautiful. The music as a whole is just so dynamic, brutal and creative, alternating paces, fast, slow, old school slamming at times, adding an intensity and heaviness to the music that is just great. The song writing is just a celebration of everything that makes BDM great. That’s all I can say.
Now to some very important aspect about Defeated Sanity that is almost unique in the world of BDM for me. A pity actually.
Defeated Sanity is more than just music, it is more than just Death Metal. It is art. It is the depth of the music together with the artwork of the album and the lyrics. The brilliance in it, the thick atmosphere of absolute isolation and darkness you can almost touch, the impression of utter suffering, both fascinating and absolute. It is the elegance of a scalpel instead of the rawness of a bat. It is not the rude brutality that other bands achieve. It is pure violence.

I don’t know what more I can say. Did Passages Into Deformity live up to my expectations? Yes, surprisingly it did, although it seemed almost impossible. Did it top Chapters of Repugnance? I can’t say. They are different, but both perfect in their way. If I had to choose, Chapters of Repugnance would be one percent ahead of Passages Into Deformity. Defeated Sanity are back. They are still the uncrowned kings of the whole genre of BDM. Letting even other brilliant bands far behind, letting all the unimaginative and childlike slam only BDM bands far far behind, Defeated Sanity once again reach yet another peak in the musical landscape.

100%

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Dehumanized (USA) - Controlled Elite (2012)


Country: USA (New York City, New York)
Released on: Comatose Music

Tracklist:

1. Bloodties 04:15
2. Body Colonizers 02:29
3. Soiled 02:39
4. Set in Stone 03:48
5. Controlled Elite 04:11
6. Immorally Reborn 03:02
7. His Burden 03:31
8. Root of Evil 03:30
9. None Shall Remain 03:09
10. Man vs. Man 02:33
11. Condemned 07:32
40:39

After 14 years the NYDM band Dehumanized has finally released their new album Controlled Elite on Comatose Music. Having seen them this year on NRW Death Fest in Germany I was really excited that this band was still active and working on a new album.
This new album continues where Prophecies Foretold once ended and adds some positive things to it as well. Dehumanized have finally got the fat, clear and just unbelievably heavy sound they always deserved. Production is just neat and makes this record so intense and brutal. Trademark Dehumanized riffs in the New York vein, some pretty classic Death Metal sounding soli spread into here and there, which surprised me a bit. Didn't really remember that on the predecessor really. One thing I will never understand and that I find almost as annoying as long samples are hidden tracks like the last track Condemned on this record. Four minutes of silence, then the track kicks in. Unnecessary and annoying although the song itself is a beast. The new vocalist Centrone somehow seemed to me as a mixture between Mullen (Suffocation) and Gallagher (Dying Fetus) and delivers a crushing and absolutely commited and intense performance. I'm not a fan of high pitched vocals and there are some in here, but nothing I would really bother about really. The whole album just seems so organic and dynamic, keeping NYDM and the legacy of Dehumanized real, yet sounding fresh and new. Riffs just roll you over in this tank like manner, that provoke you to just jump around and freak out. This is it.

A real pleasure to listen to this album, that does everything right and satisfies me as a fan of their first album to the fullest. Dehumanized are back.

90%

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Absurdist (USA) - Absurdist (2012)


Country: USA (Frederick, Maryland)
Released on: Lost Apparitions Records

Tracklist:

1. Consuming Disbelievers 03:25
2. Disavowing the Myth of Law 03:00
3. Incorporeal Gestation 04:26
4. Anthropocentric Decline 03:17
5. Ascetic Paragon 02:58
17:06

I recently discovered the Brutal Death outfit Absurdist from Maryland and their new self-titeled EP and I was stoked. First really positive thing I recognized was the great sound. Crystal clear instruments. The drums hammering, the vocals absolutely brilliant. A pleasant surprise compared with a lot of bad muddy sounding EPs nowadays. The vocals are understandable, yet absolutely crushing and brutal. Somehow lets me think of a brutalized version of Suffocation's singer Mullen. Earth shaking vocal performance for sure. The music does have a bit of an old school vein, having some pounding New York styled riffs being interrupted by straight forward blast parts, yet letting room for some technical disharmonic insertions and a nice heavy metal steyled solo in Incorporeal Gestation. Absolutely crazy. The song writing is brilliant, always very dynamic and thought out. Pace changes going from blast attacks to groove ridden NYDM parts to mid tempo parts accompanied by a nice guitar line. The over all sound is just aggressive, brutal and clear.

The sound of a full-lenght, the musical strenght of a year old band. Wish more bands would put out such brilliant EPs. Highly recommended material. Thanks to Aaron from Absurdits who gave me a copy of this.

88%

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Serocs (MEX) - Oneirology (2012)



Country: Mexico (Guadalajara, Jalisco)
Released on: self-released

Tracklist:

1. Reckoning 01:18
2. Cabal 03:34
3. Metamorphosis 02:25
4. Changeling 03:44
5. A Feast for Chalchiuhtotolin 00:51
6. Mictlan Calleth 04:16
7. 13 B'ak'tun 03:48
8. Emetics 01:13
9. Oneirology 04:35
10. To Each His Own 04:09
11. Unwanted Protection 03:37
33:30

The last thing I remember of Serocs is the cover of his EP So On And So Forth which was pretty memorable. I just found out that this is a one man project from Mexico which I find incredible to believe (that it is a one man project, not that he's from Mexico). His new full-lenght effort Oneirology is an unbelievable presentation of musical skills, creativity and refreshingly technical Deathgrind. The album starts off with an atmospheric intro. Now, I'm not a big fan of intros, samples or other stuff which is not music. But as soon as the second track kicks in you feel that this prelude was necessary to make you ready for the blasting furiosity which follows. This is how a Death Metal related album should start. The guitar work is playful, technical and always interesting. Mid-tempo parts alternate with fast blasting parts. Although being really technical the album never bores. The song writing is so creative and interesting it's a real pleasure to listen to this album. The unexpected melodic soli in the tracks 13 Backtun and Unwanted Protection are just so suprisingly cool, I really wondered why I even liked that parts. The sound of those soli reminded me of the over the top, but still highly melodic Dragonforce soli (yeah I liked that band once). Really great ideas here. The vocals (done by Josh Smith from Gutfucked) reminded me a bit of Cattle Decapitation (I don't like that band at all), but way more brutal and far better excercised. The deeps are in the nice Brutal Death vein and the highs add the technical Grind elements to the music. Great song writing and superb instrumentation.

Huge respect to this technical Deathgrind album which is so progressive, interesting and brave. Really stoked.

88%

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Iniquitous Savagery (UK) - Compelled By Perverse Immorality (2012)


Country: United Kingdom (Scotland)
Released on: Grind Ethic

Tracklist:

1. Execrating Post-Operative Womb Trauma 3:46
2. Cenotaph of Vituperation 3:08
3. Compelled by a Perverse Immorality 3:09
10:03

Scotland is not really known for a lot of Brutal Death Metal acts as far as I can recall. All the more the band Iniquitous Savagery is a pleasant surprise. On their soon to be released MCD they perform sophisticated brutality full of high pace technicality, great riffing and groove parts. Sudden pace changes, blast parts shading off into groove ridden riffing like in the middle of the second track Cenotaph of Vituperation (that one really want to makes me dance). All fits very well together, the song writing is dynamic and always interesting. The vocals are just indulging. Low gutturals, disgusting gurgles, Disgorge/Gortuary like vocal styles. Good to hear there are still exellent vocalists around. Although I have sensed the sound to be a little bit metallic (I think it's the drums), the overall impression of this MCD pleases my ears. I highly anticipate their further work.

Great debut effort. Watch out for Iniquitous Savagery, they'll have a pleasant future in the Brutal Death Metal underground ahead of them. Support this great band and get their MCD on Grindethic.

88%

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Terrordrome (GR) - The Day of Sacrilege (2012)


Country: Greece (Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia)
Released on: Grind Ethic Records

Tracklist:

1. Alas, In the Wound... 03:23
2. ...For Mayhem to Begin 04:03
3. Bounded 03:25
4. Moribund 03:36
5. The Day of Sacrilege 02:39
6. Compel to Sin 04:10
7. Conceit Is the Disease 02:46
8. Impale the Unfit Servant 03:21
9. Antediluvian Malediction 05:42
33:05


Today my pre-order order of the new Terrordrome album "The Day of Sacrilege" arrived at my place. I have been a huge fan of their last full-lenght and was eager to get this new CD of theirs. The new Terrordrome record, however strange it might appear to fans of their last effort "Vehement Convulsion", might be a grower. They definitely changed their style into something more progressive and technical, yet precisely violent and brutal. Now, at first I was shocked of what I heard. I was halfway through the album for the first time and I really feared this could become an equally bitter disappointment as the latest Detrimentum album compared to their predecessing release. But after I spun this album about ten times I got hold of what is happening on this record I started to like what I heard. Dismal, playful guitar work and alternating rhythm patterns are being displaced by violent blast parts and your Vehement Convulsion-styled brutality. Things like rock-like guitar work chased by a blast attack of Wormed-styled sick guitar melodies in the final track is what makes this album so progressive. This record is a fine blend of alternating approaches to what is Death Metal. Technicality and weird guitar structures alternating with violent brutality, letting the musical skill of these guys undoubted. And this is what makes me like this record way more than I would have expected of me. The schizophrenia and disturbingness of this bastard is what keeps you interested in this album. I am definitely more the Vehement Convulsion type of Brutal Death fan. And although I had my doubts, this album grew into something interesting and absolutely woth listening to.

A record that leaves you confused, yet still satisfied in your hunger for brutality. Fascinating new approach.

85%

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Iniquitous Deeds (USA) - EP (2012)


Country: USA (East Bay, California)
Released on: New Standard Elite

Tracklist:

1. Blackened Despair 02:18
2. Disseverment 02:18
3. Tomb of Divine Supremacy 03:02
4. Metamorphosis 03:10
10:48


So, I'm spinning the EP of our label brothers Iniquitous Deeds released on New Standard Elite. Crushing, furious, technical, very US-sounding Brutal Death approach with utterly sick vocals spiced with those beautiful grinding pinch harmonics in the riffing. I am really a fan of pinch harmonics. Love how they are sprinkled into the riffs. Twisted, not too dominant melodies in the skilled guitar work, groove ridden passages, this is the stuff of which exellent Brutal Death is made. The chunky bass lines are audible and contribute to the great over all sound of the music. The drumming is tight. Iniquitous Deeds create a very unique sound on this absolutely recommendable EP you don't want to miss.

Highly appreciated band. New Standard Elite is such a lovely label you definitely have to keep an eye on. Iniquitous Deeds is one of the jewels on the label.

90%

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Down From The Wound (PH) - Agony Through Rituals of Self Purification (2007)


Country: Phillipines (Olongapo City/San Marcelino, Zambales)
Released on: Sevared Records

Tracklist:
1. Treachery 02:36
2. Infant Soaked in Baptismal Mutilation 05:23
3. Agony Through Rituals of Self Purification 05:07
4. Mockery of the Truth 05:05
5. Dismantled by Greed 02:55
6. Propagation of Divine Apostasy 06:35
7. Cerebral Injection of Sickening Depravity 05:27
8. Piercing Through the Veil of Lies 04:01
9. Infected Upon the Stench of a Perverse Faith 03:46
10. Rise from Oppression 02:15
11. Rise from Oppression (Demo 2006, Bonus Track) 01:45
12. Dismantled by Greed (Demo 2006, Bonus Track) 02:34
13. Piercing Through the Veil of Lies (Demo 2006, Bonus Track) 03:42
14. Treachery (Demo 2006, Bonus Track) 01:35
52:46

Finally back for a review! But first something about my new band: I have a BDM band called Abhorrent Castigation (see post below) and would be pleased if you'd support us :) Follow us on fb for news and shit. Thank you.

So this review is about an old album which I really like and may have crossed your way before, too. Anyway, I am spinning the CD for the second time now and I decided that this was worthy to be on this blog. Down From the Wound is much better than what you normally get from this part of the world. Nasty, but well produced Brutal Death with a large portion of slammage and ultra low gutturals with some awesome lyrics. I am not the biggest fan of gore lyrics and this band doesn't concentrate on gore lyrics, but on social stuff, religion and philosophy. I love that, but far too many bands think Brutal Death could only be brutal with gore lyrics and that is wrong. Exhibit A: Down from the Wound. Ultra low gutturals, nasty slamming, nice, but raw production and faster blast parts. The song writing is surprisingly good. I have to say that I have heard a lot of weak bands from that area of the world and Down From the Wound is definitely not one of them. The demo tracks at the end are nice to have, but something you'd probably skip as a result of the weak recording quality.

Highly recommended stuff. Never gets boring, fucking brutal and if you have this CD or will get it if you like (I hope so!) then read the lyrics. An album totally worth it.

88%

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Abhorrent Castigation (GER) - Enthralled by Abysmal Delusion (Demo 2012) Download


Country: Albstadt/Bremen (Germany)
Released on: self-released

Tracklist:
1.) Injecting the Falsehood 4:41
2.) Altar of Idiocy 4:23
3.) The Dead Shepherd 2:36
4.) Into Morbid Obesity (Cerebral Effusion cover)

Download link [320 kbps]:
http://www.mediafire.com/?of6lzl2s0u2m6rp

Download link [FLAC]:
https://rapidshare.com/files/1863661805/FLAC_Abhorrent_Castigation_Demo_2012.7z

Download link [lyrics]:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?fze4svlhd79pm4z



I want to share the demo of my new Brutal Death band Abhorrent Castigation with you for which I do vocals. I'm not going to review it myself :)

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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Ulceration (USA) - Submerged in Gluttony (2004)


Country: USA (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
Released on: Bizarre Leprous Production

Tracklist:
1. Absolution 03:05
2. Submerged in Gluttony 02:29
3. Gulag of Solovetsk 02:39
4. Lidice 02:39
5. Abhorrent Regression 04:18
15:10


Ulceration is a Brutal Death Metal band related to Splattered Cadaver, which I really love. So what we got here is heavy stuff, classic US-style BDM with unbelievably brutal and guttural vocals of the Splattered Cadaver singer. The guitar sound is raw and crushing. What I like a lot about US BDM is that there is a lot of fast drumming and if they slam, they do it right, like in the vein of Disgorge for example. Same with Ulceration. Nice groove riffing and a great flow. Can't say it often enough: a pity that such bands get so few attention. So go check out the stuff, it's really worth it!

Great US BDM, lovely vocals, nice riffing. Everything you need for your eargasms.

90%