Exfeciate Interview 2025

The BDM world will be blessed on March 7th.  Yes, folks, we are a mere 3 weeks away from a brand new full-length release from one-man German machine Exfeciate.

I have been lucky enough to have been spinning the new album, gorgeously titled "Enthroned In Desiccation" for the past couple of weeks, and I can say with certainty that you will not be disappointed.  Slams, chugs, grind, gurgles, interesting tempos and rhythms, it's all here.  Make sure to follow Exfeciate so you will catch this release when it's out!  Cerebral Reviewment will be sharing the fuck out of it also!!!!

Enjoy the brief interview below:

CEREBRAL REVIEWMENT:

Who is Exfeciate?  

PARWEZ:

Just me, Parwez, a one-man brutal death unit from Germany. I write, record and mix everything. My neighbors hate me.

What is the history of Exfeciate?

I used to write riffs and record countless ideas but never bothered to finish a song. Then, in late 2023, I figured I might as well make it official and start ruining eardrums. Since then, I’ve been diving deep into recording and production—learning as I go and finding the sound I'm looking for along the way. 

What other bands are you a part of?

None. However, I played guitar for Endometritis over a decade ago and  dabbled in different genres for a while. My legendary former bandmates Rafael (now Figging, Theatre's Kiss) and Andree (now Verachtung, Genital Mutilation, ex-Stillbirth) have supported me a lot in realizing Exfeciate. 

How did you first get into this kind of music?

It all started when a friend sent me a YouTube video of the German classic "Cock and Ball Torture - Aphrodisianius" when I was about 15 years old. I didn’t even know music like that existed. From there, I dove into the MySpace rabbit hole, constantly searching for more underground sound.

I am beyond pumped for the new full-length to come out!  Can you share a little about the writing of "Enthroned in Desiccation " and the concept behind the album?

Thanks! I started writing ‘Enthroned in Desiccation’ in August 2024. After my last releases, which were mostly thrown together within a couple of weeks with me locking myself in a room, I wanted to change my approach. This time, I really took my time with the writing process and tried to focus on crafting something more cohesive.

‘Enthroned in Desiccation’ tells the tale of a dark emperor ruling over a fallen civilization. Obsessed with immortality, he uses a grotesque mix of ancient bones and machinery to transcend death, resurrecting the deceased and merging flesh with machine. His empire is empty, but through these rituals, he expands his cult and achieves a twisted form of enlightenment.

Who did the artwork?

The art itself is made by Fear Of Napalm. My brother Hudana put it all together and is currently in the process of creating the design for my physical release. 

Can you recommend any up and coming bands from your area?

You should definitely stay tuned for the upcoming  'Figging' album. Finest vomit blasting deathgrind

Who are some artists that have inspired you that may surprise people?

Apart from Yoko Ono, whose avantgarde screeching is basically proto-pig squeals, I’d say Balkan music has some seriously intricate rhythms, especially with all the odd time signatures and unpredictable syncopation. 

In fact, I actually used a Balkan-inspired tune as the outro for the first track—it adds a wild, unexpected twist to the brutality.

Thanks so much for doing this!

Anything to say to fans?

Thank you so much for the support! It truly means the world to me as fans and reviewers like you are the ones who keep the underground spirit alive and thriving.

Much love from Germany!

Greetings

Parwez 

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Foul Deformity - Disgust - 2024 - Inspired by a series of horrific real life events.

It was so refreshing to stumble onto this Brutal Death Metal group out of Las Vegas!  A three piece who describe their sound as a sonic force with elements from Old School Death Metal, Grindcore, Slamming Brutal Death Metal, Black Metal, Groove, and a hint of Jazz!  What a mouthful!  After multiple listens, I do think "Disgust" proves them correct!  

"Disgust" is only an EP, and is already guaranteed to end up in my best-of-the-year list for 2024. This will be hard to top.

The production on this, first of all, is just perfect.  Everything perfectly sitting in its own pocket in the mix.  Every instrument it still raw yet feels in your face with its own patterns and intricacies.  The vocals are some of my favorite I've ever heard; a blend of styles and techniques that may be hard to pick up on at first, but the subtlety IS master precision. The songwriting throughout is incredible, with many catchy parts and tempo changes.  The instruments, vocals included, seem to play off of each other for an amazing onslaught of creative brutality that keeps you guessing.

Alex Udar is in charge of percussion, and goes crazy with so many fills and techniques.  He grew up in Romania and started playing drums in 2009.  He has banged the drums for Sinful Serpent, Abominable Putridity, Submerged, to name a few.

On Guitar and Bass we have Bruno Macias, playing guitar since 2004 in bands like Guttural Secrete, Cerebral Incubation, and Abominable Putridity.  Also must be a fan of a lot of different styles to be writing and playing like this!

Last but not least we have these crazy fucking vocals!  Grunts and gurgles and predators all sound amazing on each track!  Nick Papageorgio has almost 20 years at working on his craft, and it shows.  The delicate enunciation while still keeping it so guttural can be witnessed when following along with the lyrics.  Check out lyric video for "(Null) Ubiquitous" below.  It features Jeremiah Jensen (Guttural Secrete).  I can't tell if the whole track is him or not, but it is still a prime example of the quality of talent on this release.

Speaking of lyrics, holy shit.  I love how dark yet beautifully written these are.  Feels like a radio-active spawning of a disgusting new life.  Extremely descriptive and gross and actually enunciated rather well throughout.  The cover art, which seems to be a hideous collage, compliments the music and the soundscapes/samples nicely.

I also have to give it up to the producer and mixer/masterer working behind the board here.  I can't find much about them, but damn this is nice.

Recorded by Randall James Thompson

Mastered by Rylie Ellen Wechta

With just 2 demos coming before this, I cannot wait for more from this 4 year old beast of a band!!!!

Check out all releases from Foul Deformity HERE

Interview with Andrew Ferris of Analdicktion - 2011

I was lucky enough to have a very quick interview with Andrew Ferris, guitarist and vocalist in Analdicktion.

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Cerebral Reviewment- First of all, thank you for taking the time to answer some questions!
Can you explain a little about your writing process?

Andrew Ferris- Thanks a lot for having us! Well, I write the songs and send the guitar tracks to everyone online. And then see how they go when we try to play them in the studio. If they don’t turn out so well, then we just throw the song away and move on to the next one. We must have written about 26 songs before the album and only chose 14. We’re very fucking picky. There’s at least 2 songs on the album we would have rather of not been on there and never play live haha!

CR-  Your new album, “SLUTS” is really great!  Any future touring plans?  Any U.S. visits coming up?  Can you guys say anything about the ep you are working on?

AF-  Thanks a lot man! As for touring, we will be hitting up Indonesia for 3 days, and then a date in Malaysia a week after.  We will also be playing Bangcock Deathfest in Thailand in December.  As for a U.S. tour, it’s highly unlikely anytime soon because most of us are still trying to stabilize our lives.  I’m currently in school in Thailand and next year Ash will have to join National Service Army (mandatory in Singapore) for 2 years, so it would be difficult to travel so far for too long.  But it is too early to say whether or not we will.  We’ll just see how it goes, but we will definitely be going to the U.S. (and everywhere else) in the future.  I especially would love to play CIM since I was born in Illinois and it was the first Brutal Death Metal/Grind show I ever saw (back in 2006).
The EP we are working on…it’s gonna be a split 7” with Indonesian Grindcore band Proletar.  We’re gonna be doing 4 songs for it.  The songs will showcase more of our Deathgrind/Goregrind side than anything else and we’re straying away from anything that comes off as too misogynistic or generic gore.  It’s more gonna be like an assault on scene bullshit that pisses us off or that we just find plain humorous.  We also recorded a Disrupt song (Human Garbage) for a Disrupt tribute album. It should be out in December from Power It Up Records.





CR-  How did your relationship with Scrotum Jus develop? How about Rotworks? Rotworks truly has some amazing artwork!

AF-  We were about to self-release an E.P. of 5 songs or use them for a split.  I guess word got out that we were looking to release with a label.  Aziz from the label contacted us.  When we met up, he told us we should record a full-length album at a different studio instead.  We agreed and started writing new songs for the album, entered the studio in December 2010 and recorded the album.  He got the album out as a split release with Sevared Records.  We owe a lot to Aziz.  If not for him we wouldn’t have made this much progress in such a short time…we’d be stuck with some self-released 5 song CD-R wondering where to go next hahaha!  We’ve been good friends with him since, he’s a blast to drink and talk shit with! :D
As for Rotworks, Rotworks is Arif from Wormrot, whom we are very close to.  He also did our logo too.  It was a no brainer to get a shirt design from him.  His shit is always sick!

CR-  A lot of different influences can be heard on the new album. Can you give us a few of your favorite bands, of any genre?

AF-  The different influences…that has mostly to do with our indecisiveness of what kind of band we want to be.  The earlier songs we wrote were more Slam orientated and the newer ones more Deathgrind/Goregrind/Powerviolence so everything really got mixed up for the album.

For Brutal Death/Slam: Short Bus Pile Up, Pus Vomit, Down From The Wound, Aversion To Life, Gorevent…for Grind/Powerviolence: Pulmonary Fibrosis, Captain Cleanoff, Circle Of Dead Children, Wormrot, Spazz, Jig-Ai, BruceXCampbell, Jesus Crost, Looking For An Answer, Wormrot, Squash Bowels, Cock and Ball Torture…ah and so much more!  Sludge band Black Sheep Wall had some impact on us like their low-tuning and over-lapping chords with single string notes for extra heaviness. Sonic Youth and various Punk Rock/Noise shit for noise and pick-scratches/feedback!
As for our personal favourite bands, we honestly don’t listen to much stuff related to the genres we are playing.  Personally, I’ve been listening to Tyler, The Creator, Mac Miller, Wu-Tang Clan, The Beatles, Lagwagon, The Wonder Years, Pianos Become The Teeth, Electric Light Orchestra, The Postal Service, and Westbound Train.  I try not to listen to too much stuff that’s related to the music we play, because it will make me think too much of what we should be doing.  Like I can’t just chill and listen to Brutal Death/Grind because I’d be thinking ‘Oh fuck, that part is sick, I need to write something like that’…kinda frustrates me at times haha!



ANALDICKTION

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ROTWORKS

Analdicktion - Sluts - 2011 Scrotum Jus Records

Analdicktion is a four piece Singaporean band with many influences thrown in.

Ash Azman-Vocals

Andrew Ferris-Guitar,Vocals

Irwan Shah-Bass

Aidil Ismail-Drums

Possibly the most creative, brutal, entertaining, all around fun to listen to brutal death/Slam/Grind/Gore/PowerViolence/Whatever album of it's year, 2011.  So many different elements seem to effortlessly flow together for Analdicktion.  Oh and that name!

If I HAD to label them to some sub-genre, I would be tempted just to say Experimental Brutal Death.  Thankfully, everything that anyone ever says is an opinion that has been made up of countless other opinions.  They call call themselves Death Grinding Gore-Violence.  Sounds great to me!  I highly recommend buying this album!  If you are even a slight fan of any of the aforementioned types of music, this album is for you!  Every genre that people are calling this album, or want to call it, is flawlessly performed and unexpectedly flows to the next.



"Fingerbang Abortion" starts with an intro riff reminiscent of Short Bus Pile Up.  Then you hear the disgustingly powerful gutturals lead you into a groovy slamming riff punctuated my creative drum fills.  I particularly love the pinch harmonics around 1:10.  Short song, great album opener.

Then comes “Whoreaphobic”, which immediately slows down to a straightforward slam with everything coming together very nicely.  Fast part around 1:30 is a welcome and creative change leading right into the best part and closing riff of the song.  Vocalist Ash Azman does a beautiful job here of presenting vocals BEHIND the riff and not in front, thus only enhancing it’s clarity and fullness.

"Gagged and Grinded" is a nice mix of thrash and grind with some pretty straightforward shouting vocals.  I love it.  It reminds me that this genre is supposed to be fun and doesn’t always need to sound "brutal".  Actually, if done right like it is here, boundaries can be pushed rather far while still maintaining the same feeling and returning to the original brutality of Analdicktion, or whatever band.


"Phrenetic Impaled Vaginal Dissection" starts by grinding your face off while throwing a very awesome mix of vocals in and a slammy ending.  Another very fun and catchy short tune.
 "Quantity of a Human Defilement" starts out with a catchy riff and plays off of it until it slows down to an even catchier, simpler riff thirty seconds in.  Then the track gets peppered with harmonics and sliding, groovy guitar work only to lure you in to it’s sudden end.  This is also the longest track at 3:30, I love that this is full of short songs.  This genre can get boring, but not here.  Proof is evident that this band can grind out fast songs and longer ones, and never sacrifice good writing.

Next up is a cover of the Nirvana song “Anorexorscist” which I do not need to say anything else about.
The song “Semen Covered Butchered Whores” is rightly named and is over before you are done wrapping your brain around the words semen covered butchered whores.  It is relentlessly awesome and has some hardcore elements to it that leave the listener wanting more.

Currently my favorite track has to be “Too Kvlt To Fvck”.   Atmospheric climbing harmonic riffing leading up to….black metal?  Am I fvcking with you?  No, and just wait for the ending.
"Teenage Assault Bukkake Ceremony".  Super low goregrind vocals that I didn’t like as much at first but they don’t get boring and they grew on me.  Simple, short song.

"Campaign For Emo Destruction" is 38 seconds of exciting grindcore thrash with gutturals and gang vocals and a great sample at the end.  Ready or not, you are propelled directly into "Severed Scene Slut", a brutal, comfortable return to their specific brand of slamming brutal death, ending with their slowest slam yet.  Could have done without the sample at the end here.  I am over it though, great song.
"Genetically Abused Youth" keeps a steady pace and plays around one main riff until the 1:10 mark where it holds it’s pace but alters into a super groovy riff that I love!  Perfect way to end this album starting at 2:20.  Everything slows down to an energetic slam and then speeds back up, sending this album out with a bang.

To summarize, "SLUTS" is a must have album for you fans of extreme, brutal, grinding death and more importantly, unforgettably creative music.  Each member that makes up Analdicktion has mastered their craft.

"SLUTS" was released on the now defunct Scrotum Jus Records.  They are now signed to Solvent Abuse Records

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