First off, I will not mention that guitarist/vocalist Paulo posts on a message board I frequent (damn).

Second off, I have to say that the artwork for Muay Thai Ladyboys by Scott Porterfield, is absolutely fucking fantastic. Unfold the inlay for a surprise that’s like John Baizley artwork (Baroness, Darkest Hour), but felched through the opium drenched rectum of a teenage Thai she male. And that’s not to mention the surprise on the actual CD itself…A word to the wise if you have children, don’t leave this CD laying around on your desk….

On to the music; much revered in the New York underground since 2001, Copremesis are is a super gutteral yet surprisingly technical death/goregrind band that has the super deep vocal belches and occasional heft and groove of The Day Everything Became Nothing/Cock and Ball Torture mixed with the nastier deathgrind pinch harmonics of say Malignancy (whose Danny Nelson makes a guest appearance on the album), all wrapped up in the expected sexual perversion and depravity of gore grind.

The thing is, it never comes across as immature, B movie bullshit, despite the themes and cavernous tone-it comes across as really well done goregrind with the skill level, underlying complexity and ability of a true technical death metal band rather than mindless noise and groove with scat humor thrown in for good measure. It’s almost like they are poking fun at gorefrind. Granted, the super low, unintelligible grunts make the lyrics fall by the wayside, but musically Copremesis seem to have developed from their humorous sample laden demo days into more than a gimmick goregrind act into a truly impressive, almost serious, well lubed and brutal ass rape of a band; solos and all, despite the bands stage antics.

With songs hovering between 2-3 minutes, this is not an album of short spurts, but actual, developed songs starting with the bowel prolapsing opening of the title track and it’s hilarious Thai vocal, injection through the cavernous vomit of “Bestial Castration”, crawling Autopsy like ooze that starts “Zombies”, ending groove and solo that closes out “In Silence…. Revel in Madness”,  to  the huge lurch of “Mad” this is a damn good album. Though I could have done without the 30 or so minutes of silence in closer “Tetsuo” after the Vomit Remnants cover. Still, this is one of the most accomplished goregrind releases I’ve been exposed to, and I’m not just saying that to pander to a message board peanut gallery…..

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