Review by Carl on November 26, 2023.

Nice! Another set of serial killer obsessives outing their twisted interests in the form of a bulging dose of gory grinding brutal death metal. Certainly not for the faint of heart or those with fine taste, but me, I can get behind this for sure.

Let me get this out of the way first: there are a lot of spoken samples on this album. It's something that I'm not that fond of, especially if they come as numerous as on here, but I have to admit that they add a kind of narrative to the lyrical subject matter in this case. It's an approach I prefer more than the umpteenth sample of squishy crawling vermin or screaming women, and the fact that these soundclips break up the 'one long song' feeling a release as unrelenting as this can have, is a plus that I'm reluctantly going to have to tolerate.

The music complements the serial killer angle in excellent fashion. Combining elements taken from bands such as Deaden, Last Days of Humanity, Splattered Cadaver, old Cannibal Corpse, Regurgitate, with an added pinch of Mortician, Divine Pustulence aim for the groin here. In practice, this takes the form of down-tuned bass and guitars squirming their way through short tracks, that combine blast beat propelled aggression and some primitive dense slamming breaks, high on frenetic energy and punishing brutality. The scathing dual attack of gurgling gutturals and screaming delivery complete the picture, giving the already brutal music an extre demented edge. In its totality, it's not such a complicated approach to the style, with its focus being more on savage frenzy and pounding attack, than it is on technical prowess. Good example of this are the guitar leads that pop up in a track like "Violated, Mutilated, Decapitated", that sound like Kerry King going off; but on 45 RPM, which sounds equally as funny as it is demented.

With a production that keeps it rough around the edges, the music luckily still has an organic angle to it, but the mix has put the battering percussion and vocal attack firmly up front, which has the side effect of the guitars getting shoved to the background when the music goes full speed ahead. This, together with the slightly sloppy execution, gives proceedings a pretty chaotic angle in the fiercest parts, which is not ideal from a purely technical standpoint, but does sound menacing and aggressive as fuck in practice, which is something I can certainly appreciate, to be honest. Brutal music with lyrical subject matter such as this fares well with such a frantic, barely controlled edge to it. It's not Simon and Garfunkel, now is it?

I'd say that this album offers up a good mixture of brutal death metal and goregrind, that goes well with their chosen lyrical subject matter. By no means it moves any goal posts or does it invent the brutal death metal wheel in any way, but that's not what I want from a release like this anyway. What I do want from it is a ferocious blast of demented aggression and brutality, and on that front, this album delivers oodles of it, in a suitably frenzied manner.

Shame about the many soundclips, though.

Rating: 7.5 out of 10