Released: 2006
Queensland’s Internecine Excoriation (loose translation: mutually destructive defleshing) has quite possibly the most contrived band name in musical history and they’ve managed to couple it with a bio laden with prose so purple it could have almost come from Lovecraft himself, or at the very least from one of the guys in Portal, whose guitarist Aphotic takes a co-production credit on their equally wordily-titled EP. Fortunately, the CD itself defines them far better than any ridiculously pretentious bio.
A somewhat overly-long intro of noises and screams leads into relentless, slab-like death metal that crawls inexorably like an immense, gurgling behemoth mercilessly laying waste to all before it. Then with a sudden burst of blast-beat driven speed, with track two it becomes a monstrous, similarly gurgling assault before “Comatose Autopsy” opens with an enormous riff so ponderous it’s virtually in slow motion. This is scary stuff, death metal with a malevolent atmosphere and a sense of truly evil purpose, like the soundtrack to a horror film you can only wish someone could make. Imagine something like a cross between diSEMBOWELMENT and early Morbid Angel and you begin to get the idea.
With sparse production and accompanied by indistinct and murky artwork, Internecine Excoriation has created a crawling, lurching horror that marks them as something to watch in the area of dark and disturbing death metal.
- Eclipsed Minions
- Hacksaw Caesarian
- Comatose Autopsy
- Abortuary Debris
- Desolate
Rating: 68%
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