Dismember
Indecent & Obscene

THE REVIEW

I am absolutely furious; there's no denying it.

What happened this afternoon on the homepage left me puzzled... I'll stop with the complaints here.

And being furious, only primordial and incredibly raw Death Metal can restore the tranquility I had already achieved yesterday in my umpteenth ascent towards the infinite silences of my mountains.

Death Metal, I said; let's go back to 1993 (one of the most important years for the genre considering the release of cornerstone albums by bands like Morbid Angel, Death, Entombed, Carcass: what a frightening quartet!!) and the Swedes Dismember compose their second album.

"Indecent & Obscene": a title that reeks of provocation, being inspired by the English ruling that in those early nineties had banned the albums of the five Stockholm guys from British soil and its immediate surroundings. Censorship be damned...(it makes me laugh to think... no, never mind!!).

After their debut two years prior, this is work that was expected from Dismember: frantic speed, on the edge of Terrorizer's Grindcore, rhythms, and song structures almost always kept at levels bordering on auditory frenzy. It seems the band is in a struggle with itself to show everyone their enormous compositional and technical growth compared to the recent past.

What do you expect from songs like "Fleshless" or "Eviscerated (Bitch)"? The usual brutal, explosive Death Metal, with Matti's pressing and angry vocals; Robert and David's sick and sulfurous guitars; Fred's drumming capable of continuous and sudden time changes that leave you astounded by their precision. A remarkable album that concludes with the mid-tempo of "Dreaming in Red": a sort of enchanting ballad that takes you by the hand and leads you to the gates of the black Inferno... "Beyond the Unholy Grave"...

And the sky will fall on Earth.

Now it feels a little better, but not too much.

To Serena, a dear person. (apologizing for before... you know).

Ad Maiora.