Deformed King's Mummification

Ivancient is an amazing musician and composer, and this is seriously one of the best death metal albums I've ever heard. What's even more impressive that every instrument here is played by one guy, and that these perfectly well-realised compositions are not the collective efforts of a full band but where all tabbed out by one man quite clearly in love with death metal.

What you'll find on Deformed King's Mummification is fast, brutal and technical riffs with a somewhat epic, almost Egyption feel, sometimes going into a more atmospheric, tension-building chug or even slam riff (cleverly disguised, this album isn't very thug), blasting drums that alternate between thundering blastbeats and gravity blasts, and powerful vocals ranging from a standard guttural growl to a higher-pitched shriek added for effect when a song needs that release. The bass is the only instrument that really takes a back seat here, which is good because in Ancient Necropsy's music the bass is only there to beef out the sound beneath the ever-changing technical riffs.

The writing is just fantastic, not just because every riff (whether supermelodic and atmospheric or mindlessly technical) is fantastic and suits the mood perfectly, but because of all of the tempo changes and the way that each riffs flows effortlessly into the other. Is this a riff slideshow? In a sense, but the songs still feel complete. This is just great for people like me that like their metal to be played with as much speed as possible, with lots of pinch harmonics, brutal slam sections, fantastic technical flourishes and guttural growls. But, it just so happens that with Ancient Necropsy, Ivancient has much better compositional skills than the majority of regular brutal death metal bands, as he displays here. This isn's just an onslaught of brutality, it's also memorable and melodic, despite the fact there are about a million riffs per song.

I fucking love this album, it's a testament to how amazing all out speed and brutality with no holds barred can sound. Near perfect brutal death metal, recommended to everyone that wants to explore the genre further than Suffocation, Dying Fetus and Nile - Ancient Necropy is an incredible musical force that cannot be reckoned with.

The other night I found myself watching the story of “The 750 Pound Man” on TV with distorted fascination. Viewing his giant rolls and skin lesions made me sick, but kept my attention morbidly intoxicated. More egregious was listening to that bedridden pile of lard pudding whimper when faced with a salad for dietary dinner, “No, I wanna hamburger.” I continued to scrutinize each image of that indolent sloth till I was reveling in the fact that he was going to die. My mind was engrossed in images of his tiny heart thundering laboriously to pump blood to his gigantic body until it finally said, “Fuck it” and imploded. Then it hit me, looking at the 750 pound slob was the same as hearing Ancient Necropsy’ album “Deformed King’s Mummification.”

Ancient Necropsy sucks you into its convoluted layers of Brutal Death Metal and crushes you as if you where in the deepest crevice of filthy fat in the 750 pound man. You can not help but turn the music up until you are falling on your knees in rapture due to the audio molestation that feels as good as sadomasochism. Flurries of guitar riffs that seem almost too technically chaotic find a cohesion thereby sending the listener into a zone of retard style punches, and kicks. Unearthly bass reverberates with the power of a cannonade barrage and vocals are subterranean making it sound like Ivan shoved the microphone into his lower intestines, then began bellowing with the cord sticking out of his throat. Primitive but professional drumming ripe with fills, double bass, blast beats, whirling fists and feet lobotomize the listener of anything less intense. Probably the most insane thing about Ancient Necropsy’ musicianship on this recording is that it all done by Ivan. Yeah, you read it right, ONE-FUCKING-GUY!!!!

Metal fans I do not know what it is about Columbia that produces this much anger, but bands like Ancient Necropsy have me drooling like an insatiable cocaine addict. Fuck, if the 750 pound man would have been listening to “Deformed Kings Mummification” he would be about 105 pounds cause it is impossible not to mosh when playing this disc.

Now, here is some extra good news for you fans that are ready to run out and buy this disc due to yet another inspirational review from yours truly. Goregiastic Records is going to be re-releasing Ancient Necropsy’ “Deformed Kings Mummification” in a disc that will also have their “Demonstration of Madness & Hate” demo, and an unreleased track. This means that the re-release will have 19 total songs, new cover artwork, and a fresh layout. Stay tuned to Goregiastic Records for the release date, and keep your fucking eyes open for the new Ancient Necropsy album Apocalyptic Empire due out this year.