Review by Fran on April 2, 2025.

Well, looks like this is something vile that has crept out of a slimy ditch situated in some radioactive wasteland out there, and even worse, it has recorded an album that sounds equally as diseased, filthy and depraved as that what it has crawled out of. Looks like it's time to pull the emergency contamination plan out of the cupboard, because we're going in to see what this vile plague is all about.

Fulminate is the brainchild of a guy only referred to as 'M', and I seriously doubt that it's the same one who is James Bond's boss. After pressing the play button on my stereo, this so-called 'M' immediately regurgitates a vile mixture of death-splattered, gore-infested grind all over my clean floor. Musically, we're looking at a sickening collision between bands such as Last Days of Humanity, Regurgitate, and Inhume (especially their debut), where low chainsaw guitars, bulging bass, and battering percussion slam into a distortion-drenched head-on collision of grime and gore, poured into short-but-sharp tracks that combine psychotic velocity with Mortician-like heaviness. Once you've become accustomed to the grinding barrage of seething aggression and barbaric pounding at play, it will dawn on you that that gurgling sound you've been hearing throughout actually isn't your shower drain clogging up, but the vocals of 'M', bubbling, squelching and oozing their way through this putrid slice of goregrind delight.

The production pretty much follows suit in all of this, keeping everything sounding vile and rotten, while at the same time being surprisingly well-balanced too. All the instrumentation is clearly distinguishable while sounding heavy and crisp, and it does this without sacrificing any force or grit. Aggression and heaviness go hand in hand, reaping oodles of benefit from the gritty yet powerful production, making this album land like a brick in the face.

Yeah, this is one of those platters ranking high on the filth-scale, and let me just put it out there right now, I can totally dig this. Agreed, this type of stuff doesn't need much to become one long song, and I can also see that the over-the-top vocals can get tiresome to those who aren't into this, but again, I can dig this! It's heavy, it oozes aggressive vibes and the whole thing simply heaves with a degenerate, utterly vile atmosphere, if you're into raw grinding death metal-isms, this one is sure to please those unnatural hankerings for gore-flecked metal that you might have.

In conclusion, as I see it, there's no containing this health hazard anytime soon. We're just going to have to learn to live with it, I'm afraid.

Rating: 8 out of 10