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This EP is the embodiment of musical perfection... imagine a band made up of five likeable fellows who debuted way back in 1991 with the good but not too well-known "Human Waste." In the same year, the group became pioneers with the seminal "Effigy The Forgotten" of a more brutal and technical Death Metal, the so-called Brutal Death Metal.
Our five fellows later tried to make the genre born from their first two albums more intricate and complex with "Breeding The Spawn" and "Pierced From Within." In 1998, our five friends released this EP, unfortunately the band's last production until the recent "Souls To Deny," a nice album but in my opinion it doesn't reach the glory of the past, remaining a simply good album, not a masterpiece like our Suffocation had accustomed us to.
The band now plays perfectly, with Frank Mullen's deep and gritty growl being remarkable, and the guitar work from the duo Doug Cerrito-Terrance Hobbs being perfect, offering an intricate yet furious riffing capable of making genre fans headbang for years. In the last track "Catatonia," we also find what I believe is one of the best solos of the genre, a lightning-fast guitar slash. Bassist Chris Richards delivers an excellent performance, following the inhuman speeds of the guitarists and alternating brutal outbursts with splendid bass breaks (Funeral Inception), while drummer Dave Culross (who also wreaks havoc in "Masticate To Dominate" by Gorgasm) offers perfect drumming, a lightning-fast blastbeat alternating with slower parts (take that with a grain of salt since we're talking about Suffocation).
The EP opens with "Funeral Inception," one of the band’s best songs in my opinion, a storm of brutality interspersed with beautiful bass breaks. It continues with "Devoid Of Truth," another amazing song. The title track is a perfect definition of a kick in the ass, and in "Bloodchurn" we find a relentless wall of sound where the work of all four musicians can be heard thanks to the EP's good and powerful production. "Catatonia" closes this work, a frightening song featuring the solo already described above.
I wonder what Suffocation could have done if they hadn't disbanded, probably another masterpiece. In the meantime, this EP is perfect and deserves the highest marks...
*I apologize if I've redone a review that’s already been made, but the allure of describing this EP was too strong.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Funeral Inception (03:57)
Endemicy - Enthrall the underworld
Pervade the bodies once their souls have gone astray
Gravitation - Await the birth of death
Despair is nurtured in the womb of annihilation
Your god is the epitome of my doings
Unaware and unable he is forsaken
Nullify - Abrupt and merciless
Deep-seated hatred from the beginning of time
Abolishing
Eternity has passed and the world's been cast away
Abdication - The throne has turned to dust
Skies are fading from the darkness as it rapes the land
Diminishing
Terminal is he who spectates from above this all
Your god is the epitome of my doings
No one is spared from the funeral inception
God forbid
God forbidden
Scourged then condemned
Pleading for your life and the abandonment of what's to come
Plagued then erased
Inhaled into the lungs of your extinction
Faith in the heavens has shattered
Broken pieces fall from the sky
05 Catatonia (04:02)
Force fed immobilization
Man made liquid controlling my limbs
I want to die, no reason for living
Dealing with complications life brings
A corpse with no thoughts
No feelings or perceptions of life
The pleasures of death I foresee
Nightmares and day mares combining
To torture my being - This torture inhibits my life
The world is a graveyard of fools left to cope
With the torment and regret of man now deceased
Ghouls are released to destroy the race
Which we call human beings
Existence is torn from my soul
Perdition is what is believed to be seen
Suffering from the inside
Nefarious is the way
You choose to be - Left with no will to live
My intestinal wall begins to cave in
Trapped as they say
I begin to rot here as I lay
Time to take a look
At what has begun to pass before me
Die a slow death
It now begins to take it's toll
Catatonia
Scared as I lay here dead
From this infectious disease
I want to rise from here
To recover what is mine
Abdicate your position in life
Now that you lie deceased
Rising from the tomb you own
To take what is rightfully yours
Scared as I lay here dead
From this infectious disease
I want to rise from here
To recover what is mine
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By jigoro
Fifteen minutes of pure sound deviancy, performed by the leading figures of Brutal.
Ingenious, killer, technical like few others have managed to do.
