Embodied Torment Interview 2025

Long-time BDM fans and listeners are most certainly familiar with "Liturgy of Ritual Execution", the now decade-old classic album from Embodied Torment.  When news began to surface up an upcoming second album almost 11 years later, I knew I had to know more.  I was excited to catch up with Joaquin, the band's guitarist, below.

Let's start with who we are talking to and your role in the band?

- This is Joaquin, I play guitar and do backing vocals and I'm a founding member of Embodied Torment.



Who all makes up Embodied Torment?

- We have Andy Smith on vocals, Mark Chandler on bass, Alex Lopez on drums, and myself. Our founding bassist David Ko also helps us out with a lot of our live appearances since Mark lives so far away from the rest of us.


How long have you been a band?

- We first came together in 2011.


Embodied Torment had a long hiatus, correct?  What were some of the biggest obstacles to make it back to where we are now, with an album on the horizon?

- It was a perfect storm that put the band on ice for several years: everyone was having kids, I was in a new position at work and in my union that left me no time to write, personal changes happened... we had all intended to continue with new material right away after our first album came out but life had other plans.  The biggest obstacles to getting things going again in 2022 were just the way that life had spread us out all over the country and made it impossible to get together the way that we used to. Fortunately we were able to re-form with a complete lineup, welcoming Andy and Alex into the fold, and things have been going great.


I think I saw on your latest single you guys worked with Josh Welshman?  How did that connection come about?  What was it like?

- We've known Josh from playing shows together over the years and seeing each other at the same fests. 

He also engineered for Brodequin, so with the connection there it was an easy choice to reach out for our song Tongue of Iron.   Josh was great to work with and we were very pleased with the mix, so I can't recommend him highly enough!


I've always appreciated your attention to detail in the artwork and lyrics of Liturgy of Ritual Execution.  Would you say the band's "theme" or general subject matter has changed over the hiatus?  Will we get to see more beautiful lyrics?!

"Pustules of an indiscernible mass

Writhing spasmodically

Watch it roil

Adhered by bilious fluid

The corpse becomes entrenched

In the virus of subjugation

Externally digested

Fermented in existential terror

Providing sustenance to the parasite

Whose corpulence now dominates it

The vile womb ruptures desiccated waste

No longer fit to feast upon

Despoiled and evacuated

The cryptic earth razed under

Beating morbid wings,

And carpeted with remains

Like an inconceivable ossuary

Relics of a beleaguered past

The host remains adjunct to its history

Unknowingly harboring fallacies of its freedom

Abandoned, only the human husk persists

Its forlorn destruction"

Thank you! The aesthetics and the lore in our songs are a real source of pride. I studied medieval and ancient history and have leaned on a lot of primary source documents to underpin our lyrics, such as in the account in Rädern of a man being broken on the wheel.

We've definitely evolved in a way that builds on where we were going by the end of the writing for "Liturgy of Ritual Execution" (LoRE). The final song we completed for the album was "Thrones of the Slain," which is about the Battle of Agincourt, and we were interested in talking more about the horrors of warfare and the cultural phenomena that intertwine with it. 

You can see the continuity and the change in the lyrics for the songs on Archaic Bloodshed:

In thy name and by thy hand

I laid low the vermin of Suru

I built a pillar over the city gate

I flayed all those chiefs who dared revolt

I covered the pillar with their skin

I walled up some within the pillar

 "Deconsecration of the Monolith" is written as a prayer to the god Ashur sacrificing a multitude of defeated rebels from around 880 BC, "Grasping Salvation" is about the massacres of the Sack of Magdeburg in 1631, and then "Tongue of Iron" refers to the mass execution of Saxon pagans by order of Charlemagne in 782. So there's a strong thread uniting our lyrics across time even as some elements have changed, which is that we draw on ancient lore speaking to man's inhumanity to man.


Archaic Bloodshed is 3 brand new songs?  Or were those written years before they were recorded and released?

"Deconsecration..." was basically written in 2016 and "Grasping" was largely drafted in the same period, and we even had concepts for "Tongue" before we went on hiatus too. I did substantial updates and refinement but if you just look at them in that order they basically show the conceptual development in the band in the time after LoRE.


The last big fest you guys played was Chicago Domination, (the last one, in fact) now you are on the upcoming NSE fest in November!!  Tell us what you know about the fest, how it all came about, and how you feel about it!

I remember that Dan Osborn was planning on NSE Fest a few years ago but it unfortunately didn't come together. It's cool that Ryan has revived the idea and it will be sick to be a part of a big label showcase like this. We've also got some additional dates coming together around the fest that we'll be excited to share details about soon!


What can you share about the upcoming album??

I believe it's going to be a decisive step forward for us. "Archaic Bloodshed" was an important way to get back into activity, but I think our songwriting is on another level now, and we'll see if listeners agree.

We're nearly finished with the writing for the next album but I can already tell you that the title will be "Sacraments of Eternal War." It will be blazing fast, darker, and more evil than what we've done before. It will be a statement against all of the casual, laid-back, fun vibes that are dominating death metal and much of so-called Brutal Death Metal today. No fun, no groove, no mercy.

Can you talk a little bit about influences?  Favorite bands?

Some of the more obvious collective influences are bands like Disgorge, Brodequin, and Suffocation. We’ve increasingly gone back to some of the traditional, blasting, evil death metal bands like Krisiun, Abhorrence (Brazil), and Imposer, to name just a few; stuff that a lot of people have forgotten - bands with furious, teeth-clenching riffs and a militant feeling. I’ve been listening to extreme metal for almost thirty years now and I draw on elements from that whole history when I write.

How do you feel about the current state of Brutal Death Metal?

I think it’s got its ups and downs at any time. A lot of veteran bands have a bigger audience now than they did ten years ago, in part just because fans have had a lot more time to find out about them, and that’s been positive. 

Personally, what got me into BDM in the first place can be hard to find nowadays, since groove is very big right now and the general “vibe” of a lot of the scene now isn’t really focused on darker forms of expression. There are some bright spots we’d point to among newer bands today, like Desecrated Ubiquity.

If you could tour with any 3 bands, active or not, who would make up your dream tour?

We’ve talked about dream tour mates a lot, especially since we plan on doing as much as possible on the road once “Sacraments of Eternal War” is out. There are so many sick choices, but if we had to narrow it down just to three we’re picking Putridity, Sarpanitum, and Suffocation circa 1998 for good measure.

Any newer bands that you guys are really liking?

Too many to name. At the risk of leaving out some of our friends, we’ll start with a few that we’ve been especially impressed by live and some who haven’t gotten much attention: Excrescence, Human Effluence, and Primitive Warfare are some of the sickest that we’ve played with over the past year. 

Grave Heresy, Abhorrency, Wyrmvold, and Venomous Agent X are a few of our favorite newer Black/Death bands. Molested Divinity, Putrescent Seepage, and Desecrated Ubiquity are labelmates making some of the best Brutal Death Metal out there. We’ll leave it there for now.

Thanks again for taking some time for this!  Any last words for your fans?

First of all thanks for the interview! We intend to make the long wait for our second album worth it and we’re eager to share it with all of you. AVE MORS! ⚔️

LINKS

New Standard Elite

Embodied Torment

Josh Welshman

Desecrated Ubiquity

Equalizer interview 2025

Equalizer, a 5-piece slam outfit from Florida, seemed to come out of nowhere with this EP.  

"Respect Da Slams" is 12 minutes of just that; SLAMS.  You can't help but love this shit.  Also came with an absolutely ridiculous music video.  Check it out: 

Check out a quick interview below:

1. Who are the members of Equalizer and where are you from?

Hey! Thank you for the opportunity! Equalizer is basically just me (santi), I write all the songs, run the page, do the merch, etc. But when we perform live we have some of the best players in heavy music in general, all the members are:

-Caleb Tello from yet still we pray, deepslate, allbutone, etc (drums)

-John Manesis from Yet still we pray (bass)

-Christopher Alva from yet still we pray (guitar)

-Wes

-Santiago Amoretti (me) (vox)

I’m seriously grateful for what these guys do and the time they take to make sure we sound fuckin banging on stage, check out their other projects! Also we’re in Broward County, FL

2. When was the band formed?  How did it all start?

Back in 2023 I was in a Deathcore band with the previously mentioned Caleb and John called Birthoftragedy, and after our first EP phenomenology of possession, we found ourselves arguing over creative differences we had within the band. But we decided that our friendship and brotherhood was more important, so I decided to start my own thing (equalizer) and they started their own thing (yet still we pray) and it’s so cool because so much cooler music has come out of it and we still get to play music together which is what it’s all about 

3. Respect Da Slams is crazy!  Can you tell us everything about it?!  

The way that the EP was made was I just locked myself in my room for a week and got stupid high for that week and thats what came out, I had been recently unemployed and had a ton of savings and weed so I just got high and made slam all day, one of the best times of my life quite frankly

4. Are you guys having fun?

Absolutely man, the support has actually been unreal, it’s only been one week and this project’s numbers have been already surpassing everything I’ve ever done in the past musically, so it’s an amazing feeling

5. Tell us all about the slam?

I feel like heavy music in general does something that us humans we can’t quite fully comprehend but it just tickles that one part of our brain that gives you a rush and brings out the most primal energy out of us, hence why we have moshing and the term “caveman riffs” and I feel like slam is just that, but on crack. Let’s be honest, we all have things we like about the subgenre of metal that we like the most, but there’s  nothing like being 13 and hearing your first breakdown, the simplicity of just chugs and gutturals has always been the part of the song everyone goes the craziest to, and a slam song is basically 1-3 minutes of breakdowns with the occasional blast beat, I compare it to rappers like Playboi Carti, Yeat, Ken Carson and others like them, they don’t make music to make you think, they want you to jump up and down at rolling loud, so it doesn’t matter what they say on the song, as long as the RHYTHM is good, and slam works the same exact way, on all of these songs I don’t go above the 5th fret and the lyrics are just blabber about shooting your opps, but rhythmically it sounds good so people like it, and I LOVE rhythm and messing with it in different ways and I can play all the instruments in a slam band so it was a match made in heaven

6. Any last words?

Slam is love, slam is life

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Equalizer

Birthoftragedy

Yet Still We Pray

Rectoplasm - Soda City Slam - 2025

Rectoplasm are back with another EP, and woah, of my goodness, its good!!!  Check it out and see if you agree!  Following a slowed-down Alec Baldwin sample, you will immediately notice and appreciate the production on this.  Vocals are better, drums are better, looser, more creative - riffs are better.  and sorry, but it gets better.  Roasted To The Bone - A straight-forward, chuggy slam drives this song, slow caveman-esque with primal drumming and more impressive dynamics in the vocals.  The outro to this track is a wonderful, wonderful time.

Big Money Moves Made In Silence a trip down beatdown lane with aggressive yells and in your face pissed off shouting.  Actually a surprisingly good fit and blend of styles. Shout out to Fishface, a seriously great group out of Massachusetts you should really check out. 

Now, the title track.  Here we have it.  The fucking riffs here.  This song is a head knodder all the way through, then we have Municipality of Monumental Suffering, a straight-to-point, nearer lean to death metal, but then back to crazy slamming track that features Traumatomy Vocalist, Kirill, and then a crazy guitar solo transition before the EP comes to a close.  Please support this band and pick this up!

EP Tracklist:

1. Intro

2. Roasted to the Bone

3. Big Money Moves in Silence (ft. Fishface)

4. Soda City Slam

5. Municipality of Monumental Suffering (ft. Traumatomy)

Brutaful cover art by Daemorph

Mixing and Mastering done by insomniamerica

SUPPORT BAND HERE

Enjoy our past interview with the band below if you missed it:

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**February 2024**

 PHOTO BY FYSIPHOTOGRAPHY

Rectoplasm are a 4 piece BDM/Death Metal act hailing from South Carolina.  As such a young group (High School), this band sounds way ahead of its time.

Thank you to Racoon (Vocalist) for answering a few quick questions!!

Can you tell us how the band started, how long you’ve been a band, and how old you guys are?

So this band started as mainly just a high school project thing. Me, the vocalist, and Wyatt, our guitarist, have been trying to make music together for probably around 3 years before this, but at the time his interests were too proggy for me, and my interests were too punk for him, eventually though I discovered Peeling Flesh, showed it to him, and the slam genre really just clicked for both of us. We’ve been a band technically since last August when we released the EP, but really that was a way of trying to put our music out there so that we could get enough interest to find other band members, so I would say we’ve officially been a band since last October when we played our first show with a full lineup. I, Raccoon, am 17 right now, Wyatt is 18, Grey our bassist is 23, and Tim our drummer is 21.

Your Self titled ep was a promising slab of raw BDM. liquifying picks up where you guys left off with the song writing, but has a whole different feel sonically. What was the recording process like and what can you say about the mixing/mastering of the ep?

Since we had more people this time to contribute their thoughts to the songs, and also since we were now a bit more versed in songwriting, I feel like all off our influences in the band came through really well, with just super old school brutal death riffs, going into the more modern hardcore/slam crossover stuff. The recording process was a huge learning curve for us, we had never worked with a set deadline for recording before so honestly it was kind of stressful, but luckily all turned out well. We were so so fortunate to have a friend, Matt Carrano, let us borrow his entire drum mic setup and just give us much needed help along the way. For the mixing and mastering, we got Ethan O’Brien (@tobaccobowl on instagram) who got reccomended to us by Boltcutter, he’s made our new songs sound so tight and bass heavy, what more could you want in a mix?

tobaccobowl

"My life revolves around music like a fly revolves around stinky trash. I have had experience in handful of bands, and they influenced me to learn the production art of music. I began creating music with FL Studio 12 about 9 years ago, and I am still improving every single day messing around with FL studio and dabbling in Pro Tools. I write my own songs, and collaborate with other artists to create a bunch of killer tracks. My main goal in the studio is to figure out what sound is in the artists head whether it’s through conversation and cracking jokes or shutting up and getting to work. With my production experience my strongest genres that I work on are Pop Punk, Hip-Hop, Slam, Hardcore, Indie, RnB, and Hyperpop. I strive to become well rounded in all genres in order to collaborate with all types of artists. All in all, I love making music and aiding other artists in songwriting and production in the studio, and I’m going to take any opportunity that allows me to do that."

Check out his personal project, tobaccobowl, HERE

Jon zig is fire!! How did that connection come about? And who did the recto logo???

Honestly the connection with Jon Zig was just purely through emailing him as a stranger haha! He was super willing to work with us and was accommodating to our budget, the album cover is not a full on commission but it’s insane how spot on it fits with our image and sound, super awesome guy. I did the logo actually! Just on procreate trying to make the most gooey unintelligible logo ever.

Who are some of your biggest influences?

Definitely Devourment, Cephalotripsy, Peeling Flesh, Cerebral Incubation, Corpse Pile, Snuffed on Sight, and Analepsy Any other soda city bands we should be on the look out for???

Yes! This first one is from Myrtle Beach not Cola but still shoutout Grimjaw, shoutout to Eighth House, Scrlett, Severed by Dawn, Fleshgate

Could you pick three albums, any genre, that you can’t live without?

Rei Momo by David Byrne, Effigy of the Forgotten by Suffocation, and God’s Country by Chat Pile

Thank you Racoon for taking the time!!

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Rectoplasm's second EP, “Liquifying Brutality” will be releasing 02/24/24 on ALL PLATFORMS!

TRACKLIST

1. (Blunt) Forced Cranial Cleansing ft. Ken Freeman of Severed By Dawn

2. Dismembering The Third Leg

3. Gorged

4. Leash Of Entrails ft. Angel Ochoa of Cephalotripsy (OFFICIAL) and Abominable Putridity

Album Artwork done by Jon Zig

Layout by Grey Westbrook

Mixing and Mastering by Tobaccobowl

Art by Jon Zig

Liquifying Brutality opens with a Dracula Flow sample, which made me smile and seems to be a good fit!

The bass tone shakes the whole mix, in a great way. Drums and guitar are beautifully clear.

I am in love with the mix on this! Makes it that much easier to appreciate the catchy songwriting and groovy intricacies that each instrument is adding.

Racoon's vocals are as nasty as can be and compliment the whole vibe wonderfully.

This project also features guest vocal appearances by Ken Freeman (Severed By Dawn) and Angel Ochoa (Cephalotripsy)

Overall this EP is blowing me away and secures Rectoplasm as a band for any Slam/Brutal Death fan or label to pay attention to!

"Liquifying Brutality" has the sound and feel of a mature and thought out record. I cannot wait to hear what Rectoplasm do next!!!

Check them out below:

BANDCAMP

FACEBOOK

INSTAGRAM

APPLE

YOUTUBE

Abated Mass of Flesh - Interview 2025

Abated Mass Of Flesh, a brutal death band out of Tennessee, have been around for almost 15 years!  I was not familiar with them before now, but I am definitely a fan!

Get in the know, read below:

Who is all in Abated Mass Of Flesh and how old are you guys?

We have been around since 2011. It started as a solo project, then eventually turned into a full band a couple years later. It was formed by myself (Zack), then my brother joined on vocals and we eventually found members to make it a live act.

How did the band start? and when?

The band officially started in the summer of 2011 with the idea of making a brutal death metal

project with lyrics that related to my faith at the time. I was programming drums, recording guitar riffs and doing vocals myself on the first EP "Moth and Rust in the Temple of Putridity". My brother and I already had a short history of doing music together, so it felt natural to have him be a part of it, so he took over on lead vocals on the second EP "Brutal Death". We released some more EPs before finding some local members to join, creating a four piece lineup. From there, we were able to do local shows and occasionally do some touring.

Can you name some of your influences?

We were and are still heavily influenced by bands like Human Mastication, Devourment, Dying Fetus, Epicardiectomy, Mortification, Cephalotripsy, The Empty Tomb, Cerebral Incubation, Crimson Thorn, Pathology, etc.

Your catalog of releases is long, and I have not heard it all.  In fact, I stumbled upon the new EP, "Rebirthing The Vile" as a new fan, and fucking love it.  Has your sound changed drastically over the years?  How so?

We appreciate it and we are glad that you stumbled upon our new release. We have always tried to make each release sound different. Some releases are more produced than others, while some are more primitive. Some albums focus more on atmosphere and some are more focused on the brutality. With this latest release "Rebirthing the Vile", we decided to strip back our sound and go for an approach that is more raw and gritty, showcasing our influences from bands from the early 2000s era (Devourment, Circle of Dead Children, Eternal Suffering, Digested Flesh etc.) We recorded and mixed everything ourselves and had it mastered by Josh Welshman from Defeated Sanity. 

We wanted to simplify things a bit and write more groove and slam orientated songs. As far as the production goes, we are all drawn to more raw/primitive sounding bands. Those kinds of bands feel more relatable to us because we typically handle everything ourselves and have always preferred a more natural sound. Things increasingly sound more synthetic in this genre and it felt like a breath of fresh air to tone things back a bit and go for a more natural approach without all of the polishing.

Researching the band's history, it seems like you guys have been featured on countless "Christian Deathcore" compilations.  I guess I was surprised just because of the usual theme and subject matter of this sort of music.  But, I should open my ears and eyes a bit more!  Can you tell us if the band is christian or follows certain beliefs and how that may have affected the band in the past?

So, like I mentioned earlier we started out as a Christian band. We were for about the first six years before things started to change for us. Each member, past and present, had their own experiences that led to some doubt and challenges regarding personal beliefs. Around that time, we were playing several shows and occasionally touring to where things became less focused on the faith aspect of the band. As the main lyricist, I began to dive deeper into the harder questions surrounding me at the time and I started to write about my experiences through that process. The result was nearly a 6-year deconstruction of my beliefs, which led me to some different conclusions. Though Christianity is still a topic we explore in our music, we no longer consider ourselves a Christian band for those reasons. It is a touchy topic for some and it has caused a lot of negative feedback within the Christian metal community. Many long time fans have turned away or written us off. In fact, we write about some of those experiences on our latest release. We aren't out trying to create division among people, we are just trying to be honest with ourselves. Many people have been curious about it and we try to get back with everyone and be as thorough as possible, but some people are just looking to get and answer and screenshot our responses to share them around. That's not to say every believer has acted that way. We have been fortunate to have friends and believers that continue to encourage and support us in what we do. We always saw the band as an outlet for us to express ourselves and touch on some deeper topics. It has certainly been a journey and we look forward to exploring new ground in the future within ourselves and as a band.

What a thoughtful and honest response.  Thank you for that!

How have your fans received "Rebirthing The Vile" thus far?

You're welcome! The reception has been really good so far. At this time, we are not even a week into the release and have seen massive progress and a lot of good feedback. You never really know how an album is going to do once it is released, so we were pleasantly surprised to see this one being received well.

Who did the artwork?

The artwork was done by Pradana Graphics with some editing and additions from myself. We saw the piece online and thought it would make a great album cover and compliment the direction we were going for with our sound. So we messaged him and ended up buying it from him. 

We ended up going with a green color scheme, the piece was originally red. We have never used the color green in our discography, so we thought it would look cool to change the colors up. We also ended up bringing back an older version of our logo. We felt it would match the aesthetic we were going for and we all think it turned out great.

What is your favorite track on Rebirthing The Vile?

My favorite track to play live is probably "Futility of Awaited Disencumbrance". It has a really smooth and groovy feel to it when we kick it off. We all just click together on that one and it feels great to play, but my favorite song on the release would probably have to be "The Cross is Lost". I really like the lyrics on that one and the overall style of the song. We tried some different things on it by incorporating more traditional death metal riffing over blast beats. I think it is a good mix of slam, grind and traditional death metal.

After starting pretty much all alone, to where you are now, all these years later, how has the writing process evolved over that time?

I always write from personal experiences. Some of the lyrics are internal, but I also write to reflect my views on society. In the beginning, the lyrics were heavily rooted in my faith at the time. We still explore Christianity in our music, but it is from a different perspective now. A lot of it is more introspective and reflective based on our personal experiences. It is a topic that I still find fascinating and I love to write about it. 

As far as the music goes, we have had some lineup changes over the years and that comes with a series of different influences. I think the current lineup that we have aligns with our original vision for the band. That's why we titled this new release "Rebirthing the Vile" because it felt like we were getting back to our roots. We share a lot of similar influences, so it is easier to write music together. We are always sharing bands with each other and pulling influences from a variety of bands in the slam, brutal death and grind genres.

Do you guys plan on touring this summer?

As of now, we do not have any tours planned, but we have a variety of shows ahead of us. We have been fortunate to get put on more shows this year. Our plan was to finish the release, then focus on fulfilling shows. We will probably start writing again towards the end of the year. We are all pretty busy and work full-time jobs, so we do not get to tour very often. If we do, it is usually for some weekend runs or week-long travel dates.

Thank you for making the time!  I look forward to more music!  Any last words?

We just wanted to thank everybody for supporting us over the years. We are very grateful to continue doing this. The support encourages us to keep going and we don't plan on slowing down any time soon. And thanks to you Cerebral Reviewment! We appreciate you giving us some time to share a little about ourselves and the band. Cheers! 

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ABATED MASS OF FLESH

PRADANA GRAPHICS

Anatomize Interview - 2025

I stumbled upon Anatomize's 2024 Demo, shortly after it was released, via a 4-hour-long bandcamp wormhole session.  I went to bed thinking of those songs, afraid I wouldn't be able to find the demo again.  To my delight, I had the tab still open on my computer.  Actually, it may be more likely that my decrepit desktop full of brutal death and old, frantic, insomniac writings, has a mind of its own.  A mind that has developed, if I may say so, amazing musical taste, deep in its dismal basement home.  Either way, I was so pleased!  This sounds like a mature classic Brutal Death Metal band.  Amazing writing and tones, amazing slams, amazing everything. I came to learn this is NOT a very old band, (formed last year) and its members are also rather young.

 I am pumped to get to ask a few questions and learn more!

Who all makes up Anatomize?  How old are you guys?

Anatomize consists of: 

Nolan Evans (16): Vocals

Jake Roll (15): Drums

Logan Crum (15): Bass

Ian Bagchi (17): Guitar

Jackson Dekle (15): Guitar

What is the complete origin story of the band?

Anatomize started as a duo with our old drummer Caleb and I (Jackson). 

We started out as a thrash band under many different names. We were mostly active during 2023, and played our first “show” in my garage to family and friends in 2023 under the name Execute. Later in 2023, I met our bassist, Logan, on the first day of our freshman year. 

After Logan joined, we decided we wanted to go a heavier route, and in October 2023, we changed our name to Anatomize. During this time we wrote our first song, Perpetual Dysphagia. In January 2024, I met Ian in school as well, and it just instantly clicked. 

We finally had a full lineup, and began to book our first shows. In July 2024, we ended up moving forward with a different vocalist and drummer due to many personal conflicts.

How did the New Standard Elite signing happen?

In May 2024, not long after we played our first show, we had decided we wanted to get a new logo. We ended up commissioning the vocalist of Regurgitated Entrails to design our new logo, and I showed him the demo. He sent our demo to NSE, and it just went from there. 

TRACKLIST:

1. Erotically Disfigured

2. Inexorably Tortured

3. Perpetual Dysphagia

4. Entrenched in Festered Agony

Your 2024 demo leaves me speechless every time I listen.  Takes me back to when I first got into brutal death.  When I first heard it, I was sure that you guys were older than you are.  As in, the music sounded like it was being produced by a band who had been at it for much longer than a year or so.  Can you speak on your influences and favorite music, and what possibly makes you pump out the riffage that you do?

Thank you, we really appreciate it! I’d say our main influences, notably for death metal, would probably be Cryptopsy, Cerebral Incubation, Inveracity, Gorgasm, Disconformity, Stabbing, Dying Fetus, and Defeated Sanity. 

What is the songwriting process like for Anatomize?

It honestly depends, we like to write together whenever we can though. Riff-wise, me and Ian usually like to just hang out and play guitar, and alot of riffs come from that. When it comes to other instruments I usually just suggest a base idea, and everyone kinda builds off of that and they end up creating really good parts.

Any bands from your local scene that we should check out?

These aren’t bands exclusive to Ohio (cause there honestly aren’t many), but I’d have to say Suspectum, Shackled by Lust, Tomb Sentinel, Overflow, Anhedonia, Suffering,  and there’s definitely more I’m probably forgetting. There’s not much death metal in Columbus, but we’ve played with and seen all of these bands and they’re amazing every single time. 

What can you tell us about Systematic Torture?  Impaled by Copulation tells me we are in for the creativity in writing that I loved from the demo, but even higher levels of musicianship and production?

For sure! The album definitely has alot of the same elements from the demo, but the performances and production will definitely be stepped up a ton. We like to always prioritize groove and flow when songwriting, and the album will definitely have more of that. 

The artwork is fucking unique and amazing, what was it like working with Mallika?

Working with Mallika was amazing, she did exactly what we wanted in every aspect. Perfect editing, perfect art style, honestly a 10/10 experience. We wanted a more unique cover, straying away from the typical gory style, as the theme of Systematic Torture is based on real-life events. Mallika depicted this perfectly, and incorporated many elements we wouldn’t have thought of as well. 

Thank you Jackson and Anatomize very much for taking the time to answer these questions!  I eagerly await the release of "Systematic Torture"

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Impalement Interview 2025

Who do we have the pleasure of talking to, and who are the band's members and what are their ages

Left to right:

Thomas - Cam - Dylan

Hello this is Cam from Impalement, so far Impalement is comprised of myself ( 20 ) on drums, Thomas Meeker ( 21 ) on guitars and Dylan Drach ( 21 ) on vocals

What is the origin story of Impalement?

The origin of Impalement is a long one somewhere in late 2022 through 2023 our former guitarist ( Jayden West ) and I would riff out until we found our vocalist Thomas. 

Shortly after we found Thomas in late 2023 we dropped our demo in early 2024 which had me on Drums , Jayden on Guitars and Thomas on bass and vocals after our demo came out it garnered attention from NSE .

After signing to NSE , Jayden ended up leaving and Thomas took over on strings which fit our sounds perfectly. So then the writing process for stabbed was underway with just me and Thomas. Dylan had joined as well to fill in on vocals and then became an official member after playing a couple shows with us, we ended up loving his vocals and that's how the current line up was formed.

Do you like Devourment?

Yes  Impalement loves Devourment ! we aren't necessarily heavily inspired by them but we certainly love em!

You guys got a lot of new ears and attention from Stabbed.  I don't think it needed a push from NSE, but I am sure it helped!  How has it been working with the label?

In regards to working with NSE its been the best we couldn't of asked for a better label it was important that we not only share a label with people who share a same interests. While we may stray into the realm of slam or grind we consider ourselves BDM first and NSE in ours eyes is the best label for pure 100% brutal death.

"Stabbed" was released but then the S.E.i.P. very soon after?  am I right?  what was the timeline like with writing the eps and the signing to NSE?

Stabbed was comprised of old music and rewritten music that we had previously been played live but not tracked, every track we still love but we decided to move forward and drop Sadomasochistic to not only showcase our new direction as a band and new direction musically but to also properly introduce Dylan as our vocalist. 

In regards to the writing process me and Thomas have a approached it fairly unconventionally , drums first riffs after was how we wrote most of stabbed and sadomasochistic. 

Somehow magically Thomas just knows what I want over my drums and it works.

Who did the artwork for Stabbed?

The artwork for stabbed was made by our good friend and underrated artist Colter Masson. His previous work includes Misnathropic, Nuclear Remains and more. 

The artwork itself was inspired by simple hard hitting artwork like Stabwound Bloodsoaked Serenade, Disgorge cranial impalement and Wasteform crushing the reviled. We wanted artwork that looked both old school and represented us as a band and Colter managed to capture that...

What are some of Impalement's biggest influences?

I would say Impalement is heavily inspired by bands like Stabwound (sweden) , Craniotomy , Delusional Parasitosis and Gorgasm are probably the biggest influences.

What are some of your guys hobbies, outside of music?

Outside of music we mostly work and school. Not much time for many other hobbies. 

Can you name any bands from your local scene that we should be on the lookout for?

Local bands that are worth checking out would be local atascadero grind legends Necropsy Odor and Mephitic Corpse real filthy slamming deathgrind.

Inside of San Diego there are a huge amount of awesome bdm and slam bands , some of my recent favorites have been Gnawing and Enucleation ( Dylan's other band ). 

What is the future of Impalement looking like currently?

In regards to the future of impalement we've been planning on writing new material for our full length , so far we have about two / two and a half songs ready which we plan on showcasing at our shows! 

outside of impalement the impalement members are also starting a new band called Sterilized so be on the look for that and the impalement full length!

Thank you so much for doing this, anything else you'd like us to know?

Absolutely we appreciate the opportunity!

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