Parasitic Ejaculation - Echoes of Depravity - Amputated Vein Records - 2014

Artwork: TONY KOEHL

Echoes of Depravity is the second full-length from Californian outfit Parasitic Ejaculation.
The band has also released a considerable amount of material on splits or demos.
It seems as though every member of Parasitic Ejaculation has mastered their individual craft and, over time, have coalesced into a rather original brutal death/slam band, in a world that has been over-saturated with copies and copies of whatever people think sounds the most brutal.  Well, Echoes of Depravity not only provides soundscapes far beyond 'brutal', but it is a much-welcome retreat from the boredom that has become Brutal Death Metal.
I could sit here and write about how the subtle nuances of the guitar playfully frolic with the blasts and how I wished the bass was a little further forward in the mix.  In fact, I have written many a review in that ilk.  They are fun to write and you can easily get away with sounding like you are smart.  Truth is, I am as smart as the next genius, and I'll just say it like I hear it; Echoes of Depravity is the best and grossest splat of (infected) jizz from Parasitic Ejaculation thus far, and possibly of the year.
Jonathan Neel commands full attention and displays the most improvement from previous efforts.  The range of his vocals throughout this album is wide enough to have you wondering if it's all him even when it is.  There are a couple guest vocalists though.  Bill Foster (Short Bus Pile Up), and Jeremy Scott (Logistic Slaughter) both appear on the album, i just won't tell you where.

Michael Mostachetti's riffing on the guitar is simply the catchiest shit of 2014.  Parts of this album have some very, very experimental guitar work.  As always, one of my favorite aspects of this group, is the shaky, powerful bass tone coming from bassist Josh Schwartz.  It is also perfectly mixed in to let each stroke, pluck, or slap be heard with ease.  The dude has chops.  Donovan Dettle, drums, stays simple at times and then gets very creative at others, something becoming harder to find.  Nothing is out of place and songs flow very well together.
Production has taken an obvious step forward, which may lead some fans astray.  I mean, after-all, if you appreciate a band's production sound past their first release, you aren't raw.  You're fully-cooked.  What?
The clarity of the production here only aids the listener in hearing all the details in the music.
Also amazing are the lyrics!!  The lyrics are incredibly well thought-out, evil, disgusting, and just fun to read!  When you read along while listening, you really get to see how good this vocalist is.
That being said, I will take this time to tell the band to please rename "Parasitic Spinal Mutation" to "P.R.E.A.M."

Parts of Echoes are very technical, slams are prevalent, and the songwriting is creative and fun.
The passion is there.  Buy this album.

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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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Condemned - Realms of The Ungodly - 2011 Unique Leader Records

San Diego, California's  Condemned is back with an amazing album. It has already received tons of praise and I am about to give it more.

 The first eerie, ambient track, ‘Eirgmos.. Adious..’ has a fittingly epic feel to accompany Condemned’s long awaited return. It feels evil. With ‘Ere The Dark Sovereign’- vocalist Angel Ochoa immediately proves he is back and has somehow gotten even better with his unexplainable and awesome ability to enunciate his gutturals so well. 

Cool, interesting stop and go sort of riffs throughout this track set the mood for whole album with a new style for Condemned. They are each writing great parts and taking it very seriously. Great parts, great songs. The quality of this recording is miles from “Desecrate the Vile".   It’s also better than most brutal death metal these days. It is mixed so very well. I suggest headphones for a truly amazing experience.

‘Baptismal Incineration Upon Simonists’ - Bass, drums and the guitar all flawlessly flow into and through this track, moving as a fast, disgusting, brutal creature kept under control and taking cues from the vocals.   At 1:30 Obie Flett graces us with his vocals.    Most albums with guest vocal spots in this genre do a horrible job in my opinion, either the vocalists are just too far apart in style or you literally can not hear the difference.  Realms, however, does an awesome job with both guest vocals.  Each one is audibly different from Condemned's Angel Ochoa but beautifully within the styling of the track, becoming more of a pleasant and impressive punctuation rather than a distraction.

‘Catharsis of Human Impurity’ is a nonstop assault of quick guitar riffs and perfectly placed, groovy harmonics. A prime example of Angel’s range can be heard at 1:25.

 ‘Embodied in Elms of Eternal Misery’ has an awesome dissonant strummed chord that keeps returning and the drums are just off the wall creative. The guitars start a descending melodic riff that leads to my favorite outro thus far.
‘Realms of The Ungodly’ is a favorite track for me.  Condemned are more brutal on this album while keeping their slow parts more creative and somehow everything sounds more original.  This album has the feel of a passionate, fresh debut of a brand new band.  Starts by pounding you into the ground and then slows down and helps you up with a great groovy breakdown.  A guitar solo then seems to come out of nowhere, with a very slippery feel accompanied by amazing drumming.  The very last vocal part of this track is exactly why this vocalist is looked up to by just about everyone.  It sounds as though his throat really is a toilet.  A toilet…with words instead of turds.

‘Forged Within Lecherous Offerings’ hit us hard with some welcome, more straightforward, slammy riffs and longer single note melodies give this song a good old Condemned feel. 

‘Divine Order of Babylon’ has outstanding drums and a steady pounding feel that ends quite suddenly.  ‘Manipulated For Servitude’ is an impressive display of creative songwriting with the way the guitar is playing with/within the drums, which are very innovative and are peppered with snares and cymbal crashes, at times reminding me of Cephalic Carnage.  Everything is so perfectly balanced that even if this song were not brilliantly written, you'd be hard pressed to complain.
‘Submerged Unto Phlegethon’- I love the fact that I can actually follow along with the lyrics, which are, by the way, really great and should be paid attention to just as much as the music,  for they are part of it.   By far one of my favorites on this record. It is also the longest song, at five and a half minutes and the last two minutes or so are just as epic as everything else seemed to foreshadow.  Perfect ending to this masterpiece!

Please listen with headphones and follow along with the lyrics.
The music is amazing, the art is amazing, the lyrics are amazing. Now I just need it on vinyl!

PURCHASE THE ALBUM HERE

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TONY KOEHL