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Sweltering heat that's killing me in this lethargic afternoon of late July; on top of that, the user RIBALDO has literally shattered my nerves with my review yesterday using that other nickname. I'm at the peak of paranoia: and as always, to get out of it well, I need violence in music. I need the sound butchery of the old Carcass like never before.
The very first lineup featured Bill Steer on the grinding guitar, Jeff Walker on bass and "excorbingly" growl vocals, and Ken Owen sitting behind the putrid drum skins. The three young Englishmen at the beginning of their career were obsessed with human entrails and internal organs; they poured this diabolic passion into recording four tracks in December 1988 with the famous DJ John Peel, which had already been released a few months earlier on their debut album "Reek Of Putrefaction" (...I reek of putrefaction...).
Live take versions, like an improvised live session, with a violent sound moving between primitive Grindcore outbursts, akin to Napalm Death, and abrasive shifts towards a Death Metal that pays a strong tribute, in speed, to the Slayer of the 80s. The lyrics seem taken from an anatomy manual, after all, Jeff was a medical student, and they move among abdominal excoriations, purulence, infections, and various necroticisms. A macabre delight.
Fifteen minutes of total terror, with Bill adding to the slaughter his even more growl and guttural singing compared to Jeff's. It starts with "Crepitating Bowel Erosion" and you bleed out by the time you reach "Reek Of Putrefaction". In between, there are "Slash Dementia" (!?!) and "Cadaveric Incubator Of Endoparasites". What "wonderful" titles, bloody heck.
I find it entirely unnecessary to dwell on the individual tracks for once.
The late John Peel had far-sighted vision.
Dedicated to cousin RIBALDO; because deep down, he's a good guy...FOETICIDE...
Now I feel much better.
Ad Maiora.
Tracklist and Lyrics
01 Crepitating Bowel Erosion (05:05)
Wart-encrusted sebaceous growths
Pustulating, bleeding piles are what I boast
Scabby and blistered pectoral skin flakes away
As my crushed bowels evacuate much to my dismay...
Faecal tripe - take the bite
Urinary swill - take your fill
Squeeze out the pus, perforate the rash
Munch the mouldy scabs, lick the septic gash...
Eroded crispy bowels, corrosive putrid breath
Collapsing, slushy lungs, my diaphragm pickled in meths...
Renal ulcerations, faecal gurgitations
Costive crepitations, complete anal disgorgement...
Disinterring organs, pus, urine and sewage
Thrust into your naval, to soak up ascitic fluids...
An abrasive concoction is formed in my throat
Methylated bile, jaundiced kidneys bloat
Tumorous stomach, coughing up gall
The thorax infected with furuncles and boils...
The sight of by abdomen, shrivelling and gurgling
The reek of my bloody pleura, stagnating and curdling
Cynical and sarcastic, my fetid sense of tumour
Clinical and gastric, I imbibe my own vitreous humour...
Soiled prostatic prolapse
Ruptured hernia rips your groun
Your mouth forced wide open
As you're made to chew on your haemorrhoids...
Gnawing my appendix, enteric organs glistening
Acholial fluids, coagulating and thickening
Weakened, cirrhosised liver, pumping out sludge
Of pediculosal faeces, sanguineous bile and crud...
Avulsion of salted tonsils
Gavaged with a spoon
Your scrotal sac torn open
And stuffed with ano-genital grume...
02 Slash Dementia (03:20)
Your jugular arteries ripped
Viscous juices gush and bleed
You're gutted, skinned and mangled
Enteral disorder is freed
Your rib-cage wrenched and torn
Still-pumping heart is crushed and smashed
Your alimentary canal is finely chopped
Lumpen meat is hacked...
...Disembowel, chop and trash...
Veins are stripped and flayed
Of haemorrhage, bile and sweat
Savoured cuts are cured
Bodily parts are wrecked
Bissection of the twitching corpse
Copious blood is drained
Captive-bolt and pole-axe
Shred, trash and maim...
...Dismember, carve and hack...
I rip open pectoral cavities to devour my still-steaming grub
Drinking adeps and effluence, smearing myself in congealing blood
I tear at sauted crackling to guzzle on fetid swag
Butchered remains are carved and collected in a doggy-bag...
I mince up your limbs, off-cuts and cartilege
Stuffing freshly-drawn intestine with grated coronary arteries
I slice from your mutilated trunk runny fats and rind
Skewering eye-orbits, brain, genitals and organs I grind...
Bins od torrid offal where writhing stomachs squirm
Chunks amongst your thighs and rump, crawling with tape-worm
Snapped spinal column is gnawed, curdled trypsin turns into cheese
Your vena cava lashed, on your pericardial sac I feed...
I gourge myself on your loin, erepsin and brine consumed
Blubbering escharic tegument, steaming remains turn into grume...
...Cranial fluids sucked...
...Flooded organs crushed...
You are totally wasted...
Your dissected shell collapses, as I eat congested insides
Desregarded entrails fume and rot, now host to hungry flies...
...Cranial fluids sucked...
...Flooded organs crushed...
You are totally wasted...
...Slow bissection makes me laugh...
04 Reek Of Putrefaction (03:30)
Snorting the stench of latent effluvium
And maturing damp fumes
This foul menage forces tears to your eyes
As the corpse's gas are exhumed....
Intoxicated by foul body odours
And the nauseating tepid whiff
Pinching your nostrils as you irrigate flatus
From the emaciated stiff...
Volatile entrails fume and steam
As they're meticulously hacked during discission
Evaporating sludge and bubbling pus -
A rotten gaseous expiration...
Maturating corpse, the stale smell of decay and rot
A sickening asphyxiation
Gross remains gush, innards turn to sludge
With partial liquefaction...
Smell the rot...
Of the corrupted corpse....
Hallucinogenic trip...
Tissue gases leak - a warm, unpleasant reek
A quite macabre addiction
Deteriorated, bloated corpse - decomposure burning hot
Sniff the smell of carrion...
Inhaling the dank smells
As you gouge out the dripping innards with glee
Succumbling to a translucid state
As you sniff the aroma of necropsy...
Bacterial decomposition
The aroma of fungal/larval infestation
Consuming, ripening slime
As the cadaver is slowly wasting...
Your sore sinews rot, blood curdling coughs
As acrid foetor corrodes your lungs
Body orifices clenched in your teeth
As you frenziedly try to insert the bungs...
Swollen, ripened corpse, the stench of crusting clots
The smell of stale perspiration
Administering watery gore, you're screaming out for more
Addicted to putrefaction....
Snort the corpse...
Get high on the rot...
Orgasmic rush...
Turns your brains to pus...
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