### Necrotic Disgorgement: Documentaries of dementia

#### 19/08/13 || The Duff

Necrotic Disgorgement are a US band that have released one full-length on Comatose Records, one self-endorsed split with Heinous Killings and one promo demo prior to this, their second record. One thing that is going to strike out at old followers of the band and indeed anyone into goregrind is the very clear, very crisp, foremost very clean production. The drums have speed-boat kicks deluxe, where every beat is enunciated but the overall effect is underwhelming, like flaccid cocks slapping against each other in the wind; allow me to finish: both men are heterosexual.

Awkward.

Of course, with every beat nuanced, the virtuosic calibre of Jason Trecazzi does not go underappreciated, despite focus of the mix being spent on the guitars – the man is an uber-precise machine with a remarkable sense for flavouring each track appropriately as well as carrying out the requisite tricks of the trade with hunger, fluidity and an otherwise faultless technique.

The guitars have an especially new-age lustre about them, where the band has attempted to preserve the goregrind buzz, but ultimately the low-end is sacrificed some. The lead playing comes out on top, and it seems that the overly-chaotic days of Suffocation shredding are being overcome by more tasteful, equally technical varieties of soloing – bands like Visceral Throne, Unfathomable Ruination and now Necrotic Disgorgement are showing that the more melodic style of the tech death scene can just as easily be integrated into brutal goregrind.

So now we get onto the music, which is of course technical + slams. The questionable aspect is does it resound with enough brutality to qualify it amidst the strictest of underground metalheads, and my answer to that would be an unfortunate no – these guys are trying to reinvent an old sound by freshening the production (and dare I say playing melodic death verging close to The Black Dahlia Murder).

This is a shame, because Necrotic Disgorgement exhibit the muso experience of some of the more serious heavyweights of the BDM scene, they are simply adopting more accessible styles in the process, and honestly I think it makes these guys one of the most promising newcomers in recent times.

They strike a comfortable middle ground between the melodic scene and the crushing excess of brutal death metal, and with the production as thin as it is, force the focus on every note where many might just give up were the production muddier, as is often the case with many an extreme death metal band – for anyone who wants to break into the scene without getting ear-fucked, these guys would be a great way to go about it.

The record is very nicely arranged, influences including Cannibal Corpse, Devourment, Suffocation etal. (the ending riff a nod to “Antithesis”/“Entity”-era Origin if ever there was one), most recently Skinless but of a finer standard of songwriting (“Hurdle the Weak and Trample the Dead” hardly screamed ‘dynamics’).

My three gripes are that, barring the intro, the first two tracks seem ill-placed on an otherwise very solid effort, it isn’t until “Postmortem Fluid Evacuation” (a re-recording off their debut record) that the songwriting appears of a more complete nature.

“Icepick Ear Sodomy” finishes on an anticlimax following such a heavy, melodic layering of harmonious sound, I was expecting a lead-up to the album’s ultimate riff to such an otherwise epic death metal track, instead I got too abrupt an ending on the same riff that in the end cycled for too long with no payoff. My final gripe is that “Conceived for Incest” is surely in poor taste and far too soon for us, the Fritzl generation.

The artwork is just pure fucking disgusting, congratulations.

Necrotic Disgorgement write riffs that are catchy, dynamics that are engaging, all presented in a very tidy manner, not at all like your average goregrind tech death slam-band – this band has shown a very strong sophomore that may not compete with the greats, but holds its own and I think the third record will tell all as to their competency in a market that is EXTREMELY competitive.

Guys?

- Information
- Released: 2013
- Label: Comatose Music
- Website: Necrotic Disgorgement Facebook
- Band
- Ben Deskins: guitars, lyrics
- Jimmy Javins: vocals
- Jason Trecazzi: drums
- Tony Tipton: guitars
- Phil Good: bass

- Tracklist
- 01. Intronitiation
- 02. Pincushion Pussy
- 03. Conceived for Incest
- 04. Postmortem Fluid Evacuation
- 05. Crack Whore Compost
- 06. Anal Trauma
- 07. Icepick Ear Sodomy
- 08. Grotesque Skeletal Reconstruction
- 09. Defecation Delicacy
- 10. He Wears the Flesh