BLASTFROMTHEPAST - Gortuary - Awakening Pestilent Beings - 2010

 

I love this album! Groovy slams, technically creative riffs, and great guitar solos! Guitarist is none-other-than Andres Guzman of Cephalotripsy and Sobek fame.  The vocals on this record, and the next, are also amazing. With 8 songs, clocking in at about 20 minutes, this leaves you wanting more!

The band's last album, "Divine Indigenous Sacrament," was released over 5 years ago. I think the band is still together, but have seen no action! Gortuary I miss you!

Gortuary is a wonderful brutal death metal band that just needs to get back at it! 

Down From The Wound - Agony Through Rituals of Self Purification - 2007

The Philippines are now known for being home to some of the best and most talented brutal death bands out there. This album was perhaps the first I heard to come from there and it blew any expectations I had out of the water.

The way the guitars and drums work with each other is perfect! This is filled with a lot of catchy riffing, only to slow down to smart, calculated slams, letting the drums shine through in the mix.

One of my favorite songs has to be ‘Propagation of Divine Apostasy’. It has everything on display that makes this album amazing. Actually, you could pick any song of this record and your jaw should drop. If you don’t play an instrument and are strictly into guttural vocals, then this is also for you!

The songwriting here really imprersses me each time I re-visit this album.

"Propagation Of Divine Apostasy" -

Proclaiming your insanity to carry out humanity fall to ruin this
unblessed spreading salvation abolished by the epedemic of conformity
ingesting they holy words from teachings based upon lies endless torture
manipulate above ignorance it brings mass destruction obscurity
people are already trapped in this deception embraced by misery doomed to
a life in dark hatred abomination for all.
Intense loating greatly discharged and abhorred
church ceased to exist
abandoned, crumble as religions will fall rapidly into total devastation
and will never have a chance to re-establish again
Compelled to carry the doctrines of total apostasy
humanity, condemned to the reality. Churches will be destroyed
and all its doctrines will vanish
abandonment of the principles from they false doctrines
breaking through the traditional teachings
conditional promises made to humanity by God, as revealed Scripture
violently gorging as the followers suffer.

Vocalist Tristan Dela Cruz does an amazing job here and I am sure he has only improved and I cannot wait for more Down From the Wound!

This was the debut full-length from the band, then a couple demos, then another full-length effort in 2014.

I can only hope and pray that Down Ftrom The Wound are still active and will surprise us with new music soon!

Cerebral Incubation - Gonorrhea Nodule Mastication - 2012 Sevared Records

I had no idea gonorrhea came in the form of a nodule. If I had known, I'm sure the first thing to come to mind would have been to start chewing.  I guess if you take that disgusting image and try to imagine an equally repulsive sound to accompany it, you may hear something close to this album.
"Gonorrhea Nodule Mastication" is the second release from Las Vegas quintet Cerebral Incubation.  It is even better than 2009s "Asphyxiating On Excrement", a well received, twenty minutes chunk of self proclaimed "Caveman Slam".

'Caveman Slam' isn't a bad description of the stylings of brutal death metal executed by Cerebral Incubation.  You are not going to hear technical guitar riffs and for the most part, you are not going to hear a change in tempo.  Just straight forward skull bashing.  The silver lining of these simple slams, however, are what make this record so catchy.  The perfectly timed and tuned snare blasts and the downright disgusting vocals are the perfect layers on top of the wall of static guitar.
Think Cephalotripsy slams and a similar vocal style only more squeals, meets a dumbed down Engorgement.
Compared to the band's last full length, the drums, provided by Ricky Nunez, are much tighter and more precise this time around.  There is excellent use of the pinch harmonics; brilliantly placed to punctuate through the wall of repeated guitar riffs.  And oh, those riffs.  Mark Candelas' guitar parts blend together and are recorded to sound like warm, comforting static.  For the most part the simple bass, played by Ben Martinez, cruises along nicely with the guitar, providing a nice warm low end.

By now I hope these kinds of vocals (toilet, frog, sewer, or just gutturals) are being accepted as an awesome thing by more people.  When vocals are this low, they truly do sound guttural.  It becomes easy to forget that this vocalist, Andrew LoMastro, is human and not just a weird instrument.  He also goes smoothly from his ultra lows to his pig squeals.  If you're anything like me and cringe at the mention of pig squeals, don't worry, they are done quite tastefully here.  They are used similarly to the aforementioned pinch harmonics.  Take the outro of "Alcoholic Encephalopathy" for example, where Andrew Lomastro's squeals actually match up with the harmonics of the guitar perfectly.
The whole record is engulfing in its warmth and groove.  If you do not like this kind of music, every song on here will sound the same.  If you do, most of these songs will sound similar, but are all prime slabs of slam after slam.  If you are a vocalist, you'll love this.  If you are a drummer, you'll love this.
If you watch Tim and Eric, you may recognize a sample.  If you are a Chris Farley fan, you may recognize a few samples.
No new ground is really broken here but as far as old school plain and simple barbaric slam goes, Cerebral Incubation have definitely put Las Vegas on the map, twice.  

Interview with Ian Dunford of Habitual Defilement - 2011

Habitual Defilement are a Brutal Death Metal outfit from Minnesota that has been way too quiet recently and have a full length album due out soon!
Here is an interview with Vocalist of Habitual Defilement, Ian Dunford.

Cerebral Reviewment-  Thank you Ian for taking the time for this interview!  I really liked Habitual Defilement’s EP “The Abolished Arise” and I cannot wait for the full length!!  Can you give a quick history of the band for those who don’t know?

Ian Dunford-  Thanks for digging our EP!  We’ve been around since July 2011.  Had a few line up changes before material was even written until October 2011 rolled around and Raffo (Guitarist of Habitual Defilement & Endometritis) and I met on Facebook and we discussed him joining Tim Bee (Paroxysmal Butchering) and I in Habitual Defilement and he agreed.  We released our EP in January/ February of 2012 on Infinite Regress Records (AUS) & Sevared Records (USA), these labels also will be releasing our full length! Nick Shores (Bassist of Habitual Defilement) came into the project around the time on our EP was released, so no he is not on it but will be on our full length and many more releases.

CB-  With members who live nowhere near each other, what is the band’s writing process like?

ID-  The writing process in Habitual Defilement is what I believe to be everyone’s style of writing.  Raffo has a creative force of Death Metal in that brain of his so we start with Guitar ideas, tracking and sending tracks back and forth.  Once all Guitar tracks are recorded we would have Tim Bee make up drum patterns to go along with the guitar riffs that Raffo had brought forward.  Once we have Guitars & Drums mixed we would move forward with Bass & Vocal tracking/ recording.  Once Nick recorded a few rough tracks of a few full length songs I knew this album was gonna sound not just sick but really solid and tight.


CR-  How long have you been doing brutal death metal vocals?  What got you started?

ID-  I’ve been singing Death Metal since about 2005.  My first project was called DIABOLICAL SLAUGHTER back in San Diego, California which is my hometown.  We were around 5+ years going through line up changes, shows and playing with national acts.  I gained a lot of experience and we put the band to rest in May 2011.



CR-  Who are some of your favorite vocalists that you look up to?

ID-  Vocalist I look up to…I would have to say Matti Way & Aj Magana Ex-Disgorge USA & George ‘Corpsegrinder’ Fisher of Cannibal Corpse.  Been a Cannibal Corpse fan since I was 8 years old and I’ll never stop.  Got into Disgorge around freshmen year of High School once I started to get out into the Local/ Underground San Diego scene.

CR-  Can you speak a little bit about your love of marijuana?  Is this a passion the other band members share?

ID-  Our support for the legalization of Cannabis is not just within smoking consumption wise. We support all the uses Cannabis has to offer.  Currently only Raffo and I are the only ones who have fun with Mary Jane.

CR-  I understand you enjoy writing and reading poetry?  What are your lyrics like and what inspires you to write them?

ID-  Lyric writing wise, I try and strive for Brutal Death Metal songs that tell stories, yeah it's cool to have a wicked track title and all, but it’s the lyrics behind the title that tell you what the song is about.  I personally, like to write about Humanity, War, Plagues…pretty much revolving around the era of the 1200’s-1800’s, reason being is that Humans have evolved and matured in so many ways over the course of History and I want to bring not only sick music but I want to bring people an album where their gonna say “Damn did you hear those lyrics?!  Did you hear the slam with that blast beat at the end!?”  When you pick up our album this August…you will understand.

CR-  How do you feel about bands in the scene not using lyrics at all?

ID-  They need to go back to School.


CR-  Habitual Defilement’s full length is due out in August.  What can you say about it?  What will it be called?

ID-  For this being our first full length but our second release…were bringing our fucking A Game Part II THE REDEMPTION of PAST SUPREMACY. Part III – 2013 that’s a whole other story…

CR-  Any plans for a Tour after the Release?

ID-  2013… Were gonna light a match under the Undergrounds ass.



CR-  So I understand the band is about to announce news about a drummer.  Is this a full time drummer or only live or only studio?  How much can you reveal?!

ID-  Our New Drummer is I guess you could say Full Time Guest, everyone will know who this fuck he is in time…But let me make this clear, we may be a Studio Band but I’ll tell you right now…You’ll see a Full LIVE Line up of HABITUAL DEFILEMENT with this guy come 2013.

CR-  Are you working with any other bands currently or have any side projects of your own?

ID-  I currently just recording guest Vocals for my good friend Aleq Sheets for his up coming 1 Man project called EXECRABLE DIVINITY, Be sure and search that shit up on Google and check us out on Track #3 of his EP “The Consequence Of Existence”http://execrabledivinity.bandcamp.com/.  I’ve also been offered a huge opportunity to do Guest Vocals for a 2013 Album release from a big underground Icon, more news will come when the time is right for that too.

CR-  Well thanks Ian for the Interview, is there anything you would like to say to everyone reading this?

ID-  Yeah be sure and check us out on Facebook.com and pick up our full length this August on Infinite Regress Records & Sevared Records!  Tony Koehl is doing our CD cover too so more of a reason to buy it!  Smoke Weed, It's Not Crack!

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Corrosion From Putrefied Filth


Filth and Corrosion, secreation leaked wounds,
putrefy into, decayed and filth filled bloody scabs,
corrosion begins and decays inside, this dead state of mind
Changes happening so fucking rapidly, sanity escapes from inside

Filth and Corrosion,secreation leaked into decayed wounds,
putrefy into filth filled bloody fucking scabs,
blood running down, the arms of the, fucking weak

Pick at all the Scabs of Filth!

Pick at the Scabs!

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Pathology - Lords of Rephaim - Sevared Records - 2013

Artwork by PAR OLOFSSON



Ever since Pathology announced the return of legendary vocalist Matti Way (ex-Pathology, Abominable Putridity, Cinerary, Obscured Secretion) and original guitarist Tim Tisczcenko to their ranks, fans were very excited for any new material from the band.  I think probably a lot of people also figured that the return of old members might have also meant music in the vein of the bands older material.  Well folks, Matti Way is a vocalist.  Tim Tisczcenko is a guitarist.  This album seems to be getting a lot of flak on the internet.  I mean, Pathology’s last two records, “Awaken To The Suffering" and "The Time of Great Purification" were both fairly well received albums.  They also marked a turning point for the band.  Apparently, they wanted to steer further from their old, straightforward Brutal Death Metal approach to things and delve further into the realms known as Slam or Slam Death Metal.  So they lost fans here and gained some there.  Both of the aforementioned albums also featured vocalist Jonathan Huber.  Huber was formerly of Seattle, WA Deathcore outfit I Declare War, a band that most fans of Pathology had probably never heard of at that time.  Despite his seemingly unfitting influences and roots, Huber proved to be a good fit for Pathology's new breed of brutality, and that's when he undoubtedly gained the band loads of new fans.  Older fans, however, know that Matti Way brings something else to the table altogether; He is an OG of the Brutal Death Metal scene, a vocalist on most vocalist’s ‘favorites’ or ‘influenced by’ list.  If you cannot get as into "Lords of Rephaim" as you were expecting to, you're not alone, but you cannot entirely blame the vocalist switch.  Let's discuss what's really going on here.

People are jumping the gun to judge this album just because they liked 2009/2010, Matti Way era Pathology.  This is still Pathology and it is still brutal and heavy guttural grossness or whatever you want to call it.  This is also Dave Astor's, The bands drummer, first time recording and producing a whole record, or at least a whole Pathology record.  Production wise, it may be Pathology's best work yet.  Good job Dave.  Mixing and Mastering was handled by Danial Castleman, the man behind Lambesis Studios in it's entirety, due the unfortunate current events affecting Tim Lambesis.  Production and mastering and how it all sounds, to an extent, is pretty subjective.  I mean things are mixed well and everything is clear, but it's definitely missing that raw feeling that the band used to exude.  The sometimes enhancing clarity is at other times hindering to the feeling and personality of the riffs.  Parts sound a little too robotic and other parts are way more atmospheric than Pathology has ever been.  Everything flows on the individual tracks, it's just the album as a whole that struggles to be cohesive.

Overall, with “Lords of Rephaim” you get an album that feels like it is trying to hard to be brutal and, in fact, comes off less brutal than any of the band’s previous releases.  There are no more guitar solos.  There is a weird atmospheric, Deathcorish, synthed out track.  There is a rerecorded version of the song "Code Injection" that doesn't come close to the original.  There are guest vocal appearances by Mallika Sundaramurthy of Abnormality and Parasitic Extirpation and Josh Smith of Gutfucked.

The guys in Pathology are obviously exploring some new ground pertaining to building atmosphere and straying from the straightforward slam-blast-slam formula, I just wish it didn’t sound so forced.

Check it out for yourself!

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Interview with Arvin Palma of Tortured Palm Art - 2012

You buy a disgusting, graphic, beautifully detailed and gory t-shirt from your favorite brutal death metal band.  You proudly wear the shirt to school/church and you are surprised at the lack of questions you get about it.  People are too thrown off or possibly offended to look past what they perceive as gross and offensive.  The art itself is under appreciated.  This is brutal death metal.  The art that goes along with it is beautiful and full of passion and hard work.  This is the first interview in a series of artist interviews with the purpose to further expose these artists and show what they do.  Please share!

Arvin Palma is a 22 year old Filipino who creates art under the name Tortured Palm Art.



"I do Artworks.  T-shirt designs, Logo, Cover art.. as long as you trust me.. I will do my best!"

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Cerebral Reviewment-  Hello Arvin, thanks for taking the time to talk with me!  Could you please tell everyone a brief history of you and how you got into drawing?

Arvin Palma-  FIRST OF ALL, GOOD DAY CEREBRAL REVIEWMENT!  I WANNA THANK YOU FOR THIS INTERVIEW.  AS I REMEMBERED SINCE I WAS A KID I ALREADY DREW BUT IT WAS ONLY FOR FUN.  I WAS 6 WHEN I STARTED DRAWING CURVES AND LINES TO FORM SOMETHING FROM MY MIND.  NOW MY WORKS ARE WAY DIFFERENT.  IT’S NOW RELATED TO MY KIND OF MUSIC AND THAT’S BRUTAL DEATH METAL.  AND THAT’S HOW I STARTED UNTIL TODAY. HOPE TO DO MORE SICK BRUTAL ARTWORKS AND IMPROVE MY SKILLS. ‘COZ IM STILL LEARNING.




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CR-  Have you always done brutal/gore art?

AP-  TO BE HONEST I WAS JUST A YEAR OR TWO DOING ARTWORKS THAT’S WHY I ALWAYS GRAB EVERY OPPORTUNITY I GOT IF SOMEBODY WILL HIT ME UP FOR A DESIGN OR SOMETHING.  I ALSO DRAW SATANIC ARTWORKS.  I’M A FREELANCE ARTIST I DO ONLY BLACK AND WHITE I DO LOGOS AS WELL.

CR-  What are some things that influence you while drawing?

AP-  ABSOLUTELY YES! METAL MUSIC!  BRUTAL, DEATH, GRIND, BLACK AND THRASH!  AND ALSO SEEING THE WORKS OF MY FAVORITE ARTIST SUCH AS MIKE MAJEWSKI, MARK RIDDICK AND CHRIS MOYEN! THEY ARE MY INFLUENCES. ESPECIALLY, IN BLACK AND WHITE ART DEPARMENT.

CR-  What is some of your favorite music to draw to?

AP-  MOSTLY I DRAW ARTWORKS FOR BRUTAL BANDS WHEN I WAS STARTING.  BUT NOW I DO SOME DARK AND SATANIC ARTWORKS.  I’M NOT CHOOSY, AS LONG AS WE GET ALONG WELL AND THEY ARE INTERESTED WITH MY WORKS.  AND WE WORK SMOOTH.



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CR-  In your opinion, can brutal art ever go too far or be too gross?

AP-  FOR SOME PEOPLE THIS KIND OF ART IS NOT ART AND THEY WILL JUST SAYS IT’S GROSS!  NASTY!  BUT FOR THOSE WHO REALLY APPRECIATE ART THESE KIND OF WORKS ARE AWESOME.  MOSTLY MY PATRONIZERS ARE MY FRIENDS AND THE BANDS LOCAL AND FOREIGN.  OH!  MY MOM IS ONE OF MY GREAT FANS ALSO. LOL

CR-  What is a favorite piece of yours?

AP-  I REALLY LOVE EVERY PIECE I MADE.  BECAUSE IT’S THE FRUIT OF MY HARD WORK AND DEDICATION TO BRUTAL DEATH METAL.  BUT IF I WAS TO CHOOSE MY ACES ARE THE ARTWORK FOR ATROCIOUS ABNORMALITY (STEVE GREEN OF COMATOSE MUSIC), DISFIGURED (TEXAS), AND MY VERY FIRST COVER ART SCREWROT (ISRAEL). FOR ME THOSE ARE MY BEST WORKS SO FAR!



Atrocious Abnormality






Disfigured






Screwrot




CR-  Do you have a dream band that you have always want to draw for?

AP-  OF COURSE I DO! I REALLY WANNA DO ART FOR MY FAVORITE BRUTAL BANDS: DEVOURMENT, ABOMINABLE PUTRIDITY, CONDEMNED, CEPHALOTRIPSY!

CR-  I know the Philippines has a pretty good brutal death metal scene and the brutal art going along with all the music seems to be getting better and better. More less known artists are popping up all over the place. Are there a lot of artists doing this sort of art where you are?

AP-  YEAH!  BRUTAL DEATH METAL SCENE IS RISING NOW HERE IN PHILIPPINES AND I’M VERY GLAD FOR IT!  LOTS OF SICK BANDS GETTING DISCOVERED.  THERE ARE FEW ARTISTS I KNOW HERE.  THE MOST KNOWN IS THE MIGHTY BIN BAUTISTA (BRAINDRAINED) AND MY HOMIE PRIX (PRIXTOI MADNESS ART) THEY ARE THE ONLY ARTIST I KNOW HERE.  AND ALSO ME MYSELF! HAHA!



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CR-  Anything you would like to say to fans or aspiring artists?

AP-  I WANNA SHOUT KEEP ON WORKING ON YOUR SHIT AND NEVER STOP THE DREAM!  WORK HARD, PRACTICE, AND DEDICATION IN WHAT YOU ARE DOING IS REALLY THE KEY!  I’M NOT THAT GOOD BUT I JUST WANNA SAY THESE THINGS TO THE ARTIST OUT THERE LIKE ME.  KEEP IT BRUTAL MY FRIENDS!

LASTLY, I WANNA THANK YOU FOR THIS GREAT INTERVIEW!  I’M VERY GLAD FOR THIS! YOU GOT MY SUPPORT MAN. THANKS AGAIN AND CHEERS!

HORNS UP!!! \M/



CR-  Thanks a lot man!

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Cenotaph - Putrescent Infectious Rabidity - 2010 Sevared Records

Technical Brutal Death veterans Cenotaph are constantly working on new material, material that always seems to have their passion behind it.  Newer bands ought to take notes from Cenotaph.

This is their fifth release and my favorite thus far.  It is the most technical but actually pretty straight forward.  It flows from song to song really smoothly.   Listening to this is like when you think you hit the snooze button but you actually dismissed your alarm, waking up two hours later thinking, “Wow, it’s been that long?!”.
Cenotaph’s distinct talent for great songwriting partnered with their knack for thinking of even greater song and album names makes them extremely entertaining.  Here are names of their albums:

Voluptuously Minced

Puked Genital Purulency

Pseudo Verminal Cadaverium

Reincarnation of Gorexstasy

The songs on Putrescent Infectious Rabidity are no exception:


1. Schizoid Acts of Mental Defloration

2. Menstrual Dismemberment

3. Consumed By Embryophagy

4. Pustulation With Swarming Insectoids

5. Embalming Maggotized Aborticide (Obscure Perspectives of Forensic Entomology)

6. Gorenographic Pervert Victimology

7. Putrescent Infectious Rabidity

8. Paroxysmal Mutation

9. Embryobscure Hypnosis / Womb of Decay


Do yourself a huge favor and check this group out if you have not already!

GO SUPPORT THEM!!

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Devitalized 2010 Promo Tracks R.I.P.

If the name Mario Di Giambattista sounds familiar, it is because he makes your favorite brand of spaghetti sauce.  Just kidding.  Mario Di Giambattista is the guitarist and drum programmer for Italian brutal slam death metal band Vulvectomy.  If you aren’t familiar with Vulvectomy, then you are missing out!

Anyway, he has decided to start his own one man project under the name Devitalized. I am really looking forward to hearing what he has in store. It is guaranteed to be something magnificent.



Devitalized, by the way, was a part of Ossuary Industries.

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"The project taken form in October 2010 by myself Mario Di Giambattista (also in Vulvectomy [Sevared Rec.] & Coprophiliac [Despise The Sun Rec.]) as a one man band brutality. Always surrounded by people who don’t share my same passion for extreme underground brutal music, I decided to create my own one man band and will remain so forever.
My great passion for Texas death metal sound bring me to compose first songs on Viral Load, Disfigured, Grotesque Formation’s style with a mixing of fast blastbeats riffing, sick slams and insane vocals!
Support Italian brutality and prepare yourself for the butchery!!”

Mario/DEVITALIZED

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2013 EDIT - Devitalized sadly no longer exists and to my knowledge the few songs that were released can no longer be found.

Interview with Josh Welshnam of Autonomy - 2011

I was very lucky to have Josh Welshnam, the man behind Rhode Island Brutal Death Metal project, Autonomy, sit down and answer a few questions.

Enjoy:

Cerebral Reviewment-  How old are you?


Josh Welshnam-  I’m 19 years old.


CR-  Why the name Autonomy?


J-  I chose the name Autonomy because it ties in with the idea of a one man band. Autonomy means independence and self-governing, which is how Autonomy is run, completely by me.


CR-  What first got you into this kind of music, have you always been into it?


J-  In my late High School years, I first started getting into slam bands like Devourment and Abominable Putridity.  I have been a huge metal fan basically since elementary school, and since then it has been my life.


CR-  I understand you go to school, how’s that going?

J-  Its going well man, studying Audio Production/Music Industry.  I definitely want a career in music, particularly in the metal industry.


CR-  You have said before that vocals are your passion in Autonomy, has this always been the case?

J-  Definitely. Prior to Autonomy I was the vocalist for an RI based deathcore band called “Death Haven” for about 5 years. Had a lot of good times in that band and it definitely fueled my passion for vocals.


CR-  You are not only an amazing vocalist, but your guitar/songwriting skills really stand out!  How long have you been playing?


J-  Haha I wouldn’t go that far, but I’ve been playing guitar since middle school, so approximately 6-7 years.  I’ve only been writing my own music since Autonomy came into existence.


CR-  Can you tell me about your relationship with Ossuary Industries and how it came about?



J-  I remember talking to BBB about Autonomy and sending him a demo with various tracks spanning from the debut EP “Dimensions of Mephitic Decay” to my more recent material.  He really dug it all and offered me a place in the Ossuary Industries family.  I couldn’t be happier to be a part of the label, and Brian has definitely welcomed me in and has put many great opportunities on the table for me already.


CR-  How is the search for band members going? 

J-  Terrible man haha.  Rhode Island is a baron wasteland as far as Brutal Death Metal goes.  I expect things to pick up soon though once some things fall into place for future plans.


CR-  How much time would you guess that you practice, whether it be vocals, guitar, programming, in a week?


J-  As of now I’m spending almost all of my free time writing for an upcoming split with Embalmer, Forged In Gore, and Extremely Rotten that will be released later in the Fall I believe.  So I’d say approximately anywhere between 6 and 10 hours a week depending on my schedule.


CR-  Can you tell me about what equipment you use?


J-  Since the start I’ve been using a Line 6 GX for all of my guitar tracking and Acoustica Beatcraft for all of my drum programming. Autonomy hasn’t had a live appearance yet, so no real live gear to speak of.

CR-  What are your lyrics usually about? What inspires you when writing them?


J-  My lyrics vary from song to song, but are mostly influenced by the human race and religion and how both suck haha.


“Post-Incubation Period”


Feasting on the limbs of the deceased body
Masticating on the fibers of the vital organs
I’ll devour the child inside the abdomen
Repugnant and decrepit
The mutilated remains lie in wait of further consumption
Vile surgery, invoke the darkest perversions of man
Incisions of wretched putrescence
Defiled in mind and body
Extirpation and ingestion of the viscera
Womb eviscerated
Blood congealing as the cavity is emptied
Incisions of wretched putrescence

CR-  Can you tell us any future Autonomy plans? 

J-  I’m making the transition to making Autonomy a fully functioning band as most people already know.  Definitely want to hit the stage in the New England area by next Summer, and even expand to other parts of the U.S.  I also have a full length album set for release in August 2012 through Ossuary Industries that I will start writing for later this year.  Just planning to take a short break for a month after the split CD to give my gears a rest and let the split and other releases spread around, and just do some promotion.

CR-  Thanks a lot man, good luck with everything!

J-  Thanks for the interview man keep it sick! \m/


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Autonomy - Dimensions of Mephitic Decay - 2011 Sevared Records

I have not always been a fan of one man death metal bands, but this one is really good.  This is Autonomy’s first release, and it is a solid one.  It is not perfect, but it gives a glimpse of what is to come and it assures the listener that they are in good hands.  Josh Welshnam knows what he is doing.

Autonomy’s biography states that it was originally formed as a side project to practice using pro audio equipment.  Well all that practice is paying off!  This has some amazing production, decently programmed drums, and nicely recorded vocals.  Speaking of the vocals, they are very good!  You can really tell that Josh is very passionate about them and has spent tons of time practicing them.  His impressive range of low gutturals and different sounds and styles can be easily heard throughout, especially on the track "Emaciated".

My only complaint would be the drums.  When dealing with a drum machine, it takes a lot more effort and patience than one may think, especially in this genre, to keep it from going stale.  That being said, the drums here are on the verge.  This is 5 songs long and it wasn’t until near the end that the drums stood out.

Although there is always room for improvement in any band, this is exactly the kind of a debut I love hearing.  The kind that gets me excited for more and seems to foreshadow and promise a better, more precise release.  Doing so all while being a very solid and good debut for this one man Rhode Island project.  Since the release of this EP, Autonomy has released a two song demo.  The band is now signed to Ossuary Industries and a full length is in the works.

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Disastrous - Severe Suffering - 2012 Brute! Productions

This Filipino band had a lot to live up to since there last release “Slavery of Disgusting Torture”. They fell short of doing so, but I think it is still worth checking out.
The recording on this album sounds sonically better and the vocals are mixed in nicely, but there is still a lack of range and dynamic.  The first track, “Kingdom of The Lifeless” is a little disorienting upon first listen.  It takes some effort to make sense of; everything feels like it has been hacked up and poorly put back together.  This song serves as a weak start to an album I was very, very excited to hear.  “It’s Your Turn To Kill” said one song to the next.  It does kill, in a few ways.  The drumming is consistent and the guitar is relentlessly, verging on messily, flying all over.  The bass guitar starts to shine through here also, but not anywhere near enough.  At 2:10 things change ever so slightly to an awesome pounding section that does not overstay it’s welcome, leading us into an abrupt ending.

"Liquid Flesh Splattered" opens with a generic sample of a screaming woman and wet noises, one could assume liquid flesh.  Luckily I have surprisingly not grown tired of these stupid samples unless of course they go on for to long.  The melodic riffs of the guitar are all over the place and chaotic. I think this record could use different recording/micing techniques to get cleaner sounds and better fitting tones.
 At around 1:35 the creativity that is Disastrous returns.  Simple yet effective brutality.  Drums do weird super splashing things and is a little distracting.
 "Removal of Spinal Cord" is a pretty boring song in context with the rest.  This is definitely one of those albums that should only be listened to as a whole, and it takes some warming up to.  The title track packs a refreshing punch that will wake you up.  Starting with the funky bass fill that might even make you dance a little bit.  This is my favorite track so far because I can hear the bass, and it’s groovy. It also has bits and pieces of weirdness that only Disastrous can put in a song and call it Brutal Death. Songs like this are why I fell in love with this band in the first place.
"Death Dimension" begins with a legitimately frightening sample and then proceeds to bash your skull in with what is apparently a kick ass second half of this album.  "Skull Fucking Pulverized" stays creative and catchy.  This band is good at stringing together parts and riffs and making them seem like they fit.  The last song is called "9.9" and it is almost that long.  I expected a six minute sample or something but luckily it starts off with some pretty interesting stuff and kind of reminds me of Disgorge.  Then, after some silence, our friend "Freddie The Blamer" shows up with some classical guitar skills.  This serves as a rather nice ending to a rather OK album.

My biggest complaint has to be the drums.  They always feel rushed or off in some way and come off bland and annoying.  While Severe Suffering has some gems, as a whole it just does not flow.

Still, Disastrous prove they are back at it and they are not fucking around.

The band has since signed to Sevared Records and are finishing work on their next album.

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