The Obnoxious Files: Anatomizing the Past
Primarily released as a part of double
vinyl split with Christ Denied in February, 1995, it has finally
landed on my (operating) table in the month of April, 2019.
Unfortunately it isn't the old version, I've got cd re-issue made by
Mexican Diablos Recs in gatefold cardboard and finally disgorged in
2017, which is yet another „Obnoxious” title as Power It Up label
gave it a vinyl life once again in April, 2014. What's more, the
track order has been put on „Haematology” compilation from 2007
with all the content remastered at VRS Studios. It's not the end with
sound play, it has been remastered for the newest releasing at the
House of Grind once more with two bonus songs added. As Luisma once
commented, it has been released as an advance for the upcoming debut
album under the banner of Morbid Records. Each „Obnoxious” track
had its place on „Emetic Cult”. Then, front cover from mentioned
„Haematology” compilation was supposed to be the artwork for the
split, yet nobody knows why it didn't happen. As compared to the
first edition, 2014 has a bit different cover. Obnoxious title
disappear from the right side and appeared down below with no
eyeballs and written in capitals. Such a change.
All right, let's leave this historical
overview. I perfectly know all the songs and there's no any surprise
for me. That's true, „Reek of Putrefaction” and „Symphony of
Sickness” albums were absolutely known for the Spaniards and if the
general impression has got a lot of common things with the Liverpool
gorefathers, however I would lie claiming „Obnoxious” is a piece
of brainless copy. No, absolutely no. The idea is to keep it simple,
brutally honest, and with overwhelming pathological touch. What's
interesting, the music is served in rather slow or moderate paces,
even meteoric shots like „Cadaveric Metamorphose” with some
headbanging rhythms or „Anatomized” has got a room for breather.
Those slowdowns really smash the organs especially on the beginning
of „Expectorating Pulmonary Mucupurulence” and on the end of
„Fermented Post-Mortem Disgorgement”. Such a skillful dosing of
different tempo when the blasting speed isn't a key factor, makes
this release very absorbing since the first seconds of „Nekromantik”
prelude, and putting it a bit laconic, Haemorrhage just managed to
create sick atmosphere. For sure, a round of applause to the
realization of sound with new remastering, definitely it helps here,
especially rhythm section lines has its place in the morgue. I don't
care if „Emetic Cult” contains the whole of „Obnoxious”, for
me as a kinda psycho fan of the band since the ages, this issue is a
real pathomusical banquet: seven gore tools in twenty-two and a half
minutes, being extremely good start on their medical crusade. Summing
it in one sentence: it's an uncontrollable proliferation of
goregrind. Lusciously!
85/100
-Tlacaxipehualiztli
(written in June, 2019)
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