Showing posts with label Ghastly Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ghastly Music. Show all posts

Sunday, January 28, 2024

Postcoital Ulceration - Continuation of Defective Existence After Multiple Ruinous Collapses - 2014 - Ghastly Music/Amputated Vein



I am so happy to re-visit this album, because it now looks like the band will have another full length out this year!!  Postcoital Ulceration in the Serbian-slamming-brutal-techdeath brain-child of Andrey Alogrin.  I have tried to reach out to him and find any more info, and I cannot!   A post on the band's facebook page from October of 2023 reads:



"We have been reborn with a new lineup and are filled with new strength. Therefore, we would like to introduce you to our new logo."

With the history of little-to-no movement from the band online, no updates, and no replies this news leaves me excited but honestly not that hopeful.  At any rate, I am pleased that the news reminded me of their full-length album!

This is an album that gets better and better over the years.  I hear new details and new things I like with each listen; the intricacies in the drum patterns, the variation in vocals, the unrelenting heaviness!
Even after re-familiarizing myself with it and then waiting about a week, I turned it on and it felt heavier yet again.  From researching the very limited info online about this project, I believe Andrey wrote and played all instrumental parts, and vocals were done by Vitaly Chumakov (Disfigurement of Flesh).
They really went all out with the artwork (Remy Cooper - Headsplit Design), Production (TsunTsun), and song titles and lyrics.
Check out their track "Parasitic Defilement" below, here are the lyrics.

Devastated megalopolis
Keeps few survivors inside
They bodies are wounded
Their minds are enslaved
The parasitic effect
Has modified the nerve system
Cannibalism and copulation are the new religion

Flesh of the flesh

Crawling spawns
The new stage of human's evolution
Hyper-active instincts
Helps them to adapt
The new environment

Famine and depravity
Rule the mindless human flock








If anyone reading this know how to reach Postcoital Ulceration, have them shoot me an email!  cerebralreviewment@gmail.com

Sunday, August 18, 2013

Created From Pig's Mutilation- Inception of Abhorrent Creation - 2011 Demo


I first learned about this band from this video of them in their rehearsal room.  I was immediately impressed by the feeling and writing of the track.  Also, it looks like they have a really great rehearsal room!  I was left wanting more and thinking to myself, “how does one pronounce CxFxPxMx?”

After some research into the matter I discovered the band’s full name,

COPROEXHUMOCOATHGASM
FISTOLECTONYCHOMICOSIS 
PARACOCCIGASTROVOMIT 
MUCOSPERMOSUBUNGUAL.

I was left thinking to myself “what the fuck?”



Since, they have changed their name to Created From Pigs Mutilation and they have put out a demo titled “Inception of Abhorrent Creation




Overall, this demo feels like a rather well thought out and executed first take of a young bands attempt of an album.  Instead of pumping out a demo that feels like pieces to a few different puzzles, Inception Of Abhorrent Creation feels like the whole puzzle.  While it may still be missing a few corner pieces, it is proof that there are great things to come from this Italian three piece of self proclaimed ‘diseaseful slamming brutality’.
     
The first track, “Starting To Devour Human Entrails” starts with an intro of what sounds like the slaughter of pigs.  This intro was created by IntroMania, a production company that creates intros and soundtracks for bands or movies.  Then we have a pretty basic brutal death guitar, drum, vocal part that leads into a build-up that seems to promise a much harder hitting slam than it delivers.  This is fitting though, it feels like a warm up to the oncoming insanity.  This track really explores a lot of territory with tempo changes but not overwhelmingly so.  I really like when a band can do a lot with simplicity.  The drums for example, are simple in the most complex, precise meaning of the word.  It has become so easy and common to bypass the human drummer.  This of course has it’s pros and cons but that is a different discussion entirely.  Nonetheless, Alessandro Garofalo, CxFxPxMx guitarist and drum programmer, is a master at staying simple, tasteful, consistent, and just really good.  All of the above actually cancels out the word simple, but it was a necessary adjective in this case.  I really like the vocals also, at times reminding me of Martin from Kraanium.

Purulent Sodomy Of Putrid Streetwalker’s Flesh” is definitely the best song name I’ve heard in awhile.  The song is very good as well and sort of reminds me of the Italian scene all together, with it’s great vocals and bass parts.   It is catchy, fun and relentlessly blasts forward with thick and slimy guitar riffs and a groovy bass line that sets you up for a sort of marching section where everything blends beautifully.  This song is complete with simple parts, complex parts in every instrument, and variety in vocals.

Italy seems to be a simmering crock pot full of brutal death/slam bands, be it one man or not, human drummer or not, they are almost always decent and seem to consistently pump out new music.  They also, like any region with a growing scene, have similarities.  This could be largely due to Mario Di Giambattista and his million or so projects.  Alessandro Garofalo also has more bands than one hand can count.  I am happy to see people being this active in their scene and showing such blunt passion for the music!
     
Sometimes it can be very difficult to include a track less than 30 seconds long on your demo when you are not a grindcore outfit.  Well they’ve done it here with “Precocious Dismemberment”, 14 seconds, actually, and it is still creative and has a lot within!  Then “Human Stew” comes charging at you with a brutal assault of guitar and bass slams.  The band again uses a simple concept often forgot about, dynamics.  The guitar gets more technical here but everything still blends into one huge groove!

Fucked, Suffocated and Mutilated” starts off with a short sample of a woman who is probably being fucked, suffocated and then mutilated.  Then this song goes a few different places, all places we’ve been before but are happy to revisit one last time.  The bass is again really awesome throughout this closing track.  Especially when it has it’s jazzy solo right before our epic outro, where the vocalist pretty much goes crazy.  Everything fades out enough for us to hear more mutilation and moaning in displeasure.  Then I moan in pleasure at this demo and patiently await a full length release, out later this year on Ghastly Music.

CREATED FROM PIGS MUTILATION

INTROMANIA

PURCHASE


Friday, August 9, 2013

Parasitic Ejaculation- Rationing the Sacred Human Remains - 2013 Ghastly Music




Artwork by Votd Art, out of Indonesia


Santa Cruz, California's Parasitic Ejaculation are here to infect us all....... with their semen.  I never thought it could burn so good!  Combining hard hitting slams with technically proficient riffs that turn on a dime, the band's debut does not get boring.

The band has been around for a couple of years, releasing two demos, however, neither of which were quite as powerful as the complete package that is Rationing the Sacred Human Remains.  It features that raw feeling that I haven't felt since The Gurchick Tree, only with enough clarity to hear everything that is going on.  The songwriting on the album is very complex and unpredictable, employing tempo changes and pinch harmonics out of nowhere.

Another prominent aspect of this album are the vocals.  Jonathan Neel has a couple different techniques used here, one is more bree bree and reminds me a bit of Human Mastication, The other is a phlegmy, deep guttural, think Engorgement.  They are equally used and always impressive.
Bassist Josh Schwartz provides a thick, powerful low end throughout.  He also plays some very memorable and audible riffs.  Perhaps most at the forefront of this record are drummer Donovan Dettle and guitarist Mike Mostachetti.  Together, the 25 minutes of creativity flow through them as if it were simple to write catchy, memorable, fun music for people to grunt over.  Well, they've done it.

The whole album feels well put together and unfolds like a well written novel.  There is a classic toungue-in-cheek vibe here, largely due to some of the samples used.  Remember Short Bus Pile Up's album Repulsive Display of Human Upholstery?  (If you don't, stop reading now)  That is the vibe I am talking about, a totally addicting, evil yet fun feeling.  Speaking of Short Bus Pile Up, Vocalist Tyler Sharpes makes an appearance on this album, as well as Logistic Slaughter's Andrew Smith and Zack Shaw, who is Phalloplatsy.

Either we have slippery, sliding guitar riffs or brutal slams.  Everything is here and everything fits.  The individual songs are catchy and creative.  Exuding Degenerative Cadavers is one of my favorites; endless groove complimented by steady, disgusting gutturals.

This 25 minute album is a very impressive debut full length for Parasitic Ejaculation that will be a hard one to top. I cannot wait to hear what's next!

Order this album HERE