This Australian death metal band has a raw, unhinged style of death metal that takes the sonic intensity of crust and combines it with a more taunt death metal chug that does not try to trample you. The pitch-shifted vocals of Paula are a bestial texture on the first two songs rather than contributing to the songwriting. The song titles take things to extremes with "Gential Dismemberment Bot," finding the lyrics incomprehensible, but the overall songwriting manages to compensate for the vocals just being a static frequency. This comes across a little more like a pig gurgle on this one.
I'm not sure how seriously this is all being taken. Their sound is dark enough for me. The production is rough, but done in a purposeful punk manner that gives it charm. The taunt riffing to "Fuck Me Jebus" borders on being industrial. The vocals are mixed even further back for this one. It is still working for me, with enough to hook me in for the apocalyptic darkness invoked here. The use of effects dripping from the samples continues to further the atmosphere and mood of this album. "Psychotropic Lyfe" gives some clues as to the inspiration for the overall sound. The vocals stay in a more gore grind mode. Guitar melodies emerge to provide a counterpoint to the staccato riffs.
"Dot' finds a more roaring, overt attack, though they are not big for just blasting at you, this song comes the closest so far at doing that. There is some brief chaos for the guitar solo, then they lock back in. "Ominous" finds this style of vocals beginning to wear thin as the riffage has an increasingly more difficult time balancing them out. "Zombie Cum" might be a great song title, but can they live up to it? The syncopation is almsot like Static X in places. The drummer pours on the double bass midway into things. "Eat Your Entrails" benefits from a little more melody in the guitar parts that ride the line between nu-metal and what Acid Bath does. However, the vocals persist. I had high hopes for "Your Mom Sucks Crack in Hell" but it finds them sticking to what the theme of this album has been. I will give this album a 9, as the vocals work but are more of an obligatory layer to otherwise great songwriting. This band has a great deal of potential.
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