I haven’t written a review in ages, literally seven years. I’ve come back to TOTD after only seven reviews back in 2014, and I’m super thrilled to be back, writing about metal and hearing bands I’ve never heard before. I picked Morgue Supplier for my first review back, and since I had started following vocalist/guitarist Paul Gillis on Facebook, I wanted to see what they were all about.

At first I was surprised. These guys are doing funk, grind and discordance; all the things that my ears usually like. You know, in the end it’s all about a cohesive blend. The merging of styles that make up an enjoyable song, and or the whole album. I think it was probably after the 3 rd day of listening to it as a complete work, and not a series of tracks. Which is where I’m at now… This an album I would listen to if I was driving home from an angry break up, or I’ve just told my boss to suck a bag of dicks. I would pick a track like “My Path to Hell” or” Empty Vacant Shell”, concerning the former and latter in that statement.

Inevitability hits hard with opening salvo “Absurd Identity”, a four–minute beat down of blood, spit and savagery, likened only to a surprise Honey Badger attack.

There’s a lot going on here, sometimes too much and it creates a maelstrom of influences slamming on each other. This is where I started thinking that this isn’t an easy album to listen to in a sitting, which is what I try to do in a review. I was left wishing with next track “Closing In”. It starts off with a really cool doom feeling, foreboding, even. However, around the one–minute mark things come unhinged and a flurry of blasts come storming in, followed by this (admittedly) cool as funk bass run and back to doom territory, I wish the song had stayed in that slow, mid–paced spot. It would have given a rest to the listener before “Empty Vacant Shell” (the suck a bag of dicks) song.

“Empty Vacant Shell”– We have a brutal 90’s style grinder, here. The intro rises above the drums, bombastic effects with Paul’s growling vocals emphasizing the tempo. It’s around the one–minute mark that the blasts hit and the song hits its stride, deftly sliding into a doomy mire with discordant guitars reminiscent of Napalm Death’s Diatribes. I have to say that this is my favorite song on the album, with “Thoughts of Only Darkness” being the second with its Black Metal vitriol blazing forth like an armored column on its way to war. “Departure (interlude)”– Like a placid lake, but something lives there that is slimy and vicious. IA! IA!

Honestly, this is an album that I’ll listen to on shuffle with other bands, incidentally I bought their self–titled (I just haven’t had the time to listen to it yet). Inevitability is not a throw–away album by any means, it stands on its own merit, but in the end it didn’t inspire me like I had hoped it would. I would ultimately say that if you’re a fan of the aforementioned Diatribes by the mighty Napalm Death or Brutal Truth’s Need to Control, you’ll love this album; and are probably already a fan of Morgue Supplier already. If not, give them a try, you never know what might hook your ear

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