For Sick Pathologists Only
At the
beginning I declare one thing: this is absolutely the best front cover of
Haemorrhage! Only two colors, band logo and title of the album, really great
idea, this cross composition reminds me of Polish Red Cross which is old humanitarian
organization established in 1919. Appetite comes with eating, so let’s take a
look at the content.
This is
fifth full length album of these sick Spaniards and of course I don’t expect any
humaneness. The question: is the best release of the band? It is very hard to
answer. The style is still the same from their bettermost (in my opinion of
course) “Anatomical Inferno”. There they defined the style which consists of
old Carcass influences and their own identity and unquestionable metal quality.
As compared to the previous album “Morgue Sweet Home”, here we have better
production for sure. The sound of guitars and bass really crushes listener
senses, the power is extreme and blowing down. All vocals also have great
production. I didn’t write about drums… yes, again I enounce that this
instrument must be recorded clearly and audibly. Of course double bass didn’t
disappear during raging blasts and vocals, but drum is hearable (nonetheless
the sound realization isn’t good) only when band slows down and vocals ‘rest’. Now,
after many listening to it, I am accustomed to such production of this album
and I can say that “Apology for Pathology” is like a scalpel in Dr. Obnoxious
hands. It slices and shreds tissues of listener, organs are ready to be mutilated,
blood started to appear… Yes, it means that first song “Posthumous Predation”
emerges from disgorging innards…
First track
opens with twenty seconds lasting sinister intro. Then thirty seconds of
mid-tempo turns into total devastation. After almost three minutes (look, this
is very long track he, he…) song ends and goes into “Feasting on Purulence”
with wonderful ending. All right, I think there is no need to describe each
song from the album. For sure I would like to mention about many guitar solos
in “Frenzied Genital Carbonization”, “Edible Necrectomy”, “Surgical
Extravaganza” with marching slow tunes on the beginning, after almost two
minutes it turns into gore grind hurricane with two guitar leads, one short, but
the second lasts twenty seconds (!). Luisma performs also leads in two last
“Syndicate of Sickness” and the title track “Apology for Pathology”. Haemorrhage
effectively kills boredom, these 33 minutes of madness run very fast, musicians
show many tempo changes, fine, memorable and catchy guitar riffs, while
Lugubrious vocals are the result of insane shrieks, screams, guttural vomits
and other totally deformed vo-kills. I am really impressed.
Some words
I have to write about the last track. Look at the running time: 8:56. This
monster consists of two parts divided by one minute of silence. First one is
the correct track opened by some slow fragments and after 60 seconds it turns
into sonic annihilation. Interesting things appear about 2:50 when I can hear
sounds of contrabass (?!!) with completely distorted, barbarous and inhuman
vocals, heavy guitars and solo lead. Truly amazing, but after it, there is a
minute of silence and hidden track arises. It is a cover of Venom’s
“Satanachist” which becomes something special… Yes, you have to listen to it
and you will surely reveal the secret he, he… As the band stated in the booklet,
it was… sickly destroyed. It is not a lie, believe me…
These 33
minutes of pure pathological gore grind is like a fresh air in fuggy mortuary. There
is no unpleasant surprise, there is no change of style (like Carcass…), however
I can see some progress (esp. powerful production). The next full length is
released this year after six long years. I am sure that following ‘beautiful’
tunes will feed my thirsty tissues and organs once again. The essence is given
in “Syndicate of Sickness” song: “…depraved morticians, insane pathologists,
forensic delinquents – the elite of pathology”. So let the edible necrectomy
begin!
95/100
-Tlacaxipehualiztli
(previously written for Encyclopaedia Metallum, on July, 2011, now modified a bit)
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