Prognosticate the Decrepitude

This band is ultimately brutal. And despite this being the first demo for this Australian death metal band, the quality production presented here is something I'd expect for a popular death metal band, like Morbid Angel, or Cannibal Corpse. But unlike those bands, I'd expect even if they messed up the production this band would still be extremely interesting to listen to.

What strikes me first off are the primarily gurgling vocals. This is a rare vocal style (I guess it's rare for the kind of music I listen to...) but it has been done. For example, I know Animals Killing People uses this vocal style. Despite the fact they do rely on some other techniques as far as vocals go, gurgling is what they went for as a primary vocal form. Did it accompany the music well? Yes, yes it did.

This is a really, really quick album. It doesn't slow down much; the guitar keeps up, the bass rattles on as quickly and as technically as I would expect from Suffocation, and the percussionist doesn't miss a beat from what I can tell. Though the musicians in this band are doing things that I don't often hear from other bands in terms of technicality, I don't think this is their main focus - brutality is their main focus. Every second of their music is as brutal as Disgorge (us), but it is as technical yet full forced as Cryptopsy's "None So Vile". Most death metal bands either sacrifice brutality for technical passages, or vice versa, but this band definitely found a comfortable compromise. I was really impressed with this release. This beats any Devourment track I've ever heard, and it's only this band's first demo. I would love to hear the rest of what this band is to become, I am very excited for this relatively new band (only the bass player is in another band called Limb from Limb, and Limb from Limb has only been around for two more years than Internecine Excoriation).

As I re-listen to the ending of the last track, through the last minute or so I know why I like this - the power of good musicianship with an awesome studio production potentiating brutal death metal is something you don't get to find every day. This and the first twenty or so seconds of the fourth track, you hear an awesome ambient sound which builds up (fourth track) and dies down (fifth track); I feel that this adds to the music intrinsically because it heightens the proficiency of the music being performed itself. If you get the chance to listen to this, please do - it's well worth the 21 minutes and 31 seconds I spent listening to this.