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HEMORRHOID “Raw Materials of Decay”
HEMORRHOID “Raw Materials of Decay”
By Dr. Abner Mality
Let’s get all the obvious wisecracks out of the way first. “HEMORRHOID sound like a real “pain in the ass”, “HEMORRHOID play some real shitty music”, “HEMORRHOID are a pile of sickness”, etc., etc. I was fully prepared to use any and all of these puns if “Raw Materials of Decay” was the generic goregrind crap I thought it would be.
Surprise, surprise...I enjoyed the album! It’s as filthy and grinding as it can be, but it’s not the faceless goop that most stuff on Sevared Records or Comatose Music is. The drums aren’t programmed, canned or otherwise digitized. The band creates actual memorable riffs that are discrete and which skank around in a style designed to get the head nodding. This is gory metal in the style of the first two CARCASS albums and similar acts like GENERAL SURGERY and HAEMORRHAGE. This includes guitars set low and nasty, a bass tuned to the subsonic and slithering, slobbering vocals. Toss in some DEVOURMENT type slam and you have HEMORRHOID.
The album flies by in about 25 minutes, with no song making the 3 minute mark. As for lyrics, you can imagine the fecal fun in tracks like “Rancid Rectal Rupture”, “Liquified To a Toxic Sludge” and that all-time favorite of campfire singalongs, “Moderate to Severe Psoriasis”. An American version of GUTALAX? HEMORRHOID are pretty close, but I actually prefer their vocal approach….no crickets or pig squeals in sight.
This winds up as a disgustingly enjoyable slab of extreme metal diarrhea...stomach upset has never been such fun!
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