The debut album from the Scotlands’s solo artist Evangelos Vasilakos (also of equally fittingly named black/death act Chestcrush– who have a long in the upcoming Deathgasm 2 movie) has the most fitting band and album name ever, as this album is Caustic, Phlegm-y , Purulent, and Apocalyptic all at once

Ladies and gentlemen, what we have here is an early contender for the year’s most disgusting sounding album, both vocally and the guitar tone. The vocals are the most gurgling, disgusting, and the most reverbed vocals I’ve heard since the last Ruin or Seep album. The guitar tone is a barbaric mutilation of the classic Swedish HM2 sound but played in a sewer of guts. The drums, though, do have that annoying tippy tappy snare that a lot of brutal death metal bands tend to use. The end result is a gnarly death metal album that is the zombie mutant baby of early Carcass, Impetigo, the Nihilist demos , Pungent Stench and Molder.

The song writing focuses on reverb filled, oozing, groovy lumbering crawls and lopes like “The Teratophilist”, or “Impose To Decompose”, and throws in plenty of Acid Witch-styled samples and classic 80s, VHS horror film soundtrack vibes. Now, the song writing isn’t that outstanding or memorable, (this is no Molder), and I’m not loving any single track, as frankly, almost everything gets washed out, by the cavernously disgusting production and vocals. But you can still hear the clear classic Swedish death metal influence in galloping moments in the likes of “Fouled, Infected & Infested”, “Flesh Melt Contagion”, and “Soft Bones” bubbling underneath.

But really, this is kind of an album you have to hear and experience it and make the stank face at when it comes on rather than enjoy catchy riffs or moments. Still, between this and Chestcrush, Vasilakos is a guy to keep an eye on.

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