Year : 1998
Style : Death Metal , Grindcore
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 121 mb
Bio:
Exhumed was formed in 1991 by Matt Harvey and Col Jones. Throughout the ensuing years, the band morphed line-ups while continuing to hone their own brand of grinding Death Metal, influenced initially by Napalm Death, Repulsion, Carcass, Carnage, Terrorizer, Impetigo, Death, Autopsy, Master, Pestilence, and other late ‘80s / early ‘90s underground favorites. By 1994, Exhumed had begun incorporating influences from Thrash and Crossover into their songs and the “Gore Metal” sound began to take shape. In 1996 the band's portion of the “In The Name Of Gore” split disc with Hemdale was recorded, which led to a European tour and a deal with Relapse the following year.After recruiting guitarist / vocalist Mike Beams in early 1998 the band released the genre (re)defining “Gore Metal” album and divided Metal fans and press into love / hate camps. The departure of longtime bassist vocalist Ross Sewage after the album’s release opened the slot to Bud Burke, cementing the “classic” Exhumed line-up. The following year the band embarked on their first US tour. 2000’s “Slaughtercult” follow-up upped the ante in sheer aggression and production values, and led to further touring, this time including Europe, Japan, Canada, and Mexico in addition to multiple trips across the US. “Anatomy Is Destiny”, the band’s third album, showcased further musical development of Exhumed’s blood soaked paradigm, both instrumentally and production-wise. After founding member Col Jones and Bud Burke left the band, Exhumed embarked on a rigorous touring schedule that included multiple US and European treks in addition to Canada, Japan, Australia and Iceland. A revamped line-up came together in 2005 to record and album’s worth of cover material titled “Garbage Daze Re-Regurgitated” but disbanded after a US tour that year. A DVD that was in production at the time was also stalled. Since then, the band has been on an indefinite hiatus, with the members pursuing other projects.
Album:
In 1998, Exhumed debuted the album Gore Metal after an 8 year streak of demo tapes that started as mostly Carcass worship. Across the flow of these demos however there was an emerging style all their own. All the blood fueled personality of Carcass, but driven more by slasher films and death metal than Carcass's pathology and grindcore.The album opens with "Necromaniac", a two and a half minute riff salad with tongue in cheek but violent lyrics that is one of the trademarks of the bands personality. stand out lines like "six feet is the depth of my obsession" set the tone for the album excellently. The next track "Open the Abscess" is slightly more thrash oriented, and features a disgusting sample of a running drill and spurting liquid during the solo section. "Enculeation" has a great intro and main riff, "In My Human Slaughterhouse" has a simple but groovy intro riff, and "Deathmask" has a great breakdown, but across the board this album delivers on exactly what it sought out to musically. If you like gory horror movies or deathgrind, or even death metal for that matter, you should like this album.The lineup for this album also all deliver something unique and important to the success of the album. In particular Ross Sewage for his absolutely foul death growl and nice fuzzy bass tone, and Mike Beams intense guitar work and genuinely compelling soloing. That said, Col Jones consistent and blasty drumming and Matt Harveys riffing and unique screams are also integral to Exhumed.This is an album that does not disguise itself as anything but what it is. Exhumed were and still are clearly not interested in doing anything but making deathgrind about gore. You've got a shot of a Texas Chainsaw Massacre - like cover of a kitchen decorated with human body parts and bones, being cut into (pun not intended) by a hand gripping a more than bloodied chainsaw. It screams "you know what you're here for", as does the album title. "Gore Metal". It's metal about gore, get over yourself.All in all, this album is great for people who aren't looking have their life changed by an album. Of course this isn't to say it's bad, I think it's great, but you should know by the way this album presents itself that you aren't getting much more than "gore metal". If you like slasher movies and a good time though, I can't recommend this album enough.
Line Up:
Matt Harvey - Vocals, Guitars (1990-present) - See also: Dekapitator, Cretin (live), ex-Athrenody, ex-Gory Melanoma (live), Cadaverizer, ex-Gravehill, ex-Noothgrush, ex-Repulsion, ex-Scarecrow, ex-Exodus (live)
Ross Sewage - Vocals, Bass
Mike Beams - Guitars
Col Jones - Drums
Tracklist:
01. Necromaniac 02:31
02. Open the Abscess 03:18
03. Postmortem Procedures 03:21
04. Limb from Limb 02:31
05. Enucleation 03:59
06. Casketkrusher 03:24
07. Deathmask 02:52
08. In My Human Slaughterhouse 02:01
09. Sepulchral Slaughter 03:03
10. Vagitarian ll 03:40
11. Blazing Corpse 02:04
12. Deadest of the Dead 05:52
13. Sodomy and Lust (Sodom cover) 04:47
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