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

Review by Carl on December 2, 2023.

The description I got about this one was along the lines of 'raw black/death/thrash metal, with cover art by Rok of Sadistik Exekution', so yeah, you better believe that I was on board with this.

It turned out that I had not been lied to, because these recordings are indeed as raw as a steak left out in the rain on a chilly day. The drums and reverb vocals are present in an oppressive way, relegating the guitars way into the background to buzz and growl, while the whole sounds utterly stripped down and gritty going forth. From the seventh track "Putrid Hate Bombs" on, the production suddenly gets a good deal louder than on the songs preceding it, sounding even more unbalanced, chaotic and unhinged, with the tin can sound of the snare drum shoving the guitars even further to the back. This is a soundmix that is by no means suitable for mass consumption, but in all honesty, I like this a lot. It's a maniacal sounding approach to a style of utterly demented, hyper-aggressive extreme metal, and being absolutely unhinged in its totality, it simply exudes psychotic energy and bonkers underground spirit throughout.

When listening to the music, you will realize that this is a style of metal that has no need for Lamb of God style production values. Opening with an intro of spacy keyboard sounds and screaming voices that would not sound out of place on an old Lucio Fulci movie, we get the first track "Intolerance", which is a cover by Hateful Blood. Yeah, I have never heard of them either, so don't worry. It's also the most subdued track (for Emetophilia's doing, that is) on here, giving the listener a tremelo picked black thrasher with a Hellhammer inspired stomping slow middle part. It's OK, I guess, but from there the fun starts for real, because it's here where the band lets go with their utterly a-melodic raging concoction of blasting percussion, cavernous rumbling growls and simple chainsaw guitar riffing, with lots and lots of berserk velocity injected, being executed in a rough and very primitive way. For most part they are reminding me of unrefined acts like Nuclear Death, Blasphemy, Naked Whipper, Beherit, Dead Christ and Repulsion, with here and there a wink and a nod to bands like Gorgoroth, Krieg and Ildjarn at their most primitive. In between the rampant belligerent noise assault, the band allows some variation to slip in, as well. Take the punky primitive thrash part in the middle of "Vomit Your Wrath" for example, or "Crucified for All Christ", that adds slowly crawling parts in the vein of Darkthrone and Hellhammer. "Nihilist Attack" opens with a crusty distorted bass and drum intro that could've just as easily been on an 80's UK hardcore/thrash album from the likes of Concrete Sox, Ripcord or Heresy, and it complements the insanity perfectly.

This is ugly music wrapped in an equally ugly soundmix, and I just love this. It will drive insane any and all whose taste is anything more refined than the sound of the devil himself detonating a nailbomb in a nunnery. This stuff is only suitable for those heavily immersed into the harshest and most brutal black/death metal, but I have a hunch that folks into savage grindcore will be on board with this as well.

An unrelenting dose of jackhammering barbarity, for sure, and I can't help but grinning like an idiot throughout the runtime of this compliation, because this is just great.

Rating: 8 out of 10