Cethalotripsy / Membro Genitali Befurcator - Split 7"

I'll be honest and admit that I only bought this 7" because Cethalotripsy were on it; they are one of my favourite "slamming" brutal death metal bands and are a total guilty pleasure of mine. Man, this shit is so sick! I'm a total sucker for this stuff when it's done right, and Cethalotripsy have yet to fail to deliver the gore-drenched slams. "Ulcerated Mass Of Pestilent Engorgement" is a fucking amazing song name.

Membro Genitali Befurcator are pretty decent as well. Lots of blasting going on here with nice heavy chugging mixed with some more-traditional metal riffing. The vocals are of the usual brutal death stock and the tracks lurch along at a fairly slow pace (for brutal death metal, at least) but the perfomance is more than interesting enough to keep me hooked until the wax ends. I'm not entirely sure what a Befurcator is, and I'm not sure I really want to find out, but these are a band I'll be keeping an eye on. I figure they are fairly new as they don't have much stuff out.

Coyote Records is a name that keeps popping up on my forays of filth into various underground genres, so I'm gonna have to give their entire release catalogue a look over when I get a spare minute or two, but for now you can check 'em out on the above hyperlink, and check out a tune from this split in the below video.

Lividity - To Desecrate And Defile

You just can't fault Lividity for delivering on the sick, twisted death metal front. As I'm sure I've mentioned many a time before, my death metal listening is very limited, but when it is done right, it just cannot be ignored. The sheer number of death metal acts out there never ceases to baffle me. Thankfully, Lividity are one of the best from the huge American scene. Tits, gore, hilarious samples, gruesome vokills and blasting drums. A true list of the finer things in life, no doubt!

 

To Desecrate And Defile opens with one of the funniest samples ever used in the history of music, before "Sword of Sodomy" hits you in the face like a ton of spiked bricks already dripping with the AIDS-infested blood of 10,000 dead hookers. And the pace is set from there! Ha ha! There are some brain-melting songs here; "Gut The Slut Before I Fuck", "Engorged With Blood (To Fill You With My Semen)" and "Orgasmic Flesh Feed" are absolutely amazing.

Production wise, this is the most clean and "modern" sounding out of all of Lividity's albums. The drum sound is fat and dark as fuck, despite the clinical triggering. The guitars are very polished, giving a hefty metallic chug more reminiscent of mainstream metal genres than the usual distortion laden riffage of death metal. I would recommend this Lividity record to any fan of metal music, especially those lost in a world of shit deathcore. I think this might appeal to people like that. Then they can work their way backwards to the more dank sounding, gruesome as fuck Lividity albums.

All in all, an excellent modern death metal record by one incarnation of a legendary band of the genre. You can't fault Lividity and you can't fault this type of metal, unless you're a feminist or something. Hopefully I'll be getting my paws on some more Lividity records soon. Remember kids: It's not about Satan, it's about pussy! Out on War Anthem Records and Epitomite Productions.

Lividity always pick the best samples ever ("are you fuckin' retarded?")

Devourment - Unleash The Carnivore

I've never really considered myself a proper Devourment fan although I am quite partial to their heavier-than-the-mass-of-9-planets mix of slam and brutal death metal. When I saw this absolutely stunning Goatgrind picture disc version of Unleash... at Obscene Extreme I knew it had to be mine. Just look at it! Damn! That's metal as fuck! Ha ha. Unleash... boasts quite a polished and clinical approach to things, and is a far cry from the band's cult classic sound on 1.3.8.

I can't decide if the music needs more slams or more blast beats, as the songs tread the line carefully between the two choices. One minute it's all the bodyslamming, next minute it's all the waving of the fingers in the air at the blastbeats! I guess I don't really need to tell you how Devourment sound, but I just love this slamming mess so much. On that note, I'd like to quickly round off this review before I have to listen to any more Devourment. I am currently in no shape to be chair-dancing to this shit ha ha ha! Finally, massive kudos to Goatgrind for putting this on vinyl and making it much more appealing for me to buy. Legend!

Disembowled Corpse - Chronic Disembowelment

Nothing screams "redneck death metal" more than having a CD out on Sevared Records and not being able to correctly spell your own band name. The label too, it seems, has issues with spelling. One shitty photoshop smear of a logo and boring cover painting later, we have Chronic Disembowelment, which despite all my sarcasm is actually fucking excellent.

The intro sample is a fucking bore but as soon as this bastard kicks in you won't be sorry. The sound is fat and the tunings are low as fuck! The drums are full and prominent in the mix, and the vocals are interesting enough to keep me going (for death metal). I accumulated a whole bunch of crap death metal in my label days and I almost threw this out before I did a quick search on line and was reminded that Disembowled Corpse play slam death. My wigger-ass tastes of today can dig that mad shit yo, so I fired up the CD player and took this album for a spin. This is good shit, and a keeper!