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DISEMBODIMENT
Spiral Crypts

Everlasting Spew (2025)
Rating: 7/10

Garish, ghoulish n’ gory are words which spring to mind here as Spiral Crypts is unleashed upon the void like a smothering virus. It’s the debut full-length splatter platter of an unhealthy combo from Sherbrooke in Québec, Canada who like to spit out titles such as ‘Larval’ and ‘Morbid Infestation’.

This is your usual goofy yet entertaining pus derived from the same zit which erupted into Tomb Mold and that sort of murky churning. However, there are numerous old school flavours being mixed into this casserole of cacophony, the band being adept at teetering on the edge of the Incantation chasm alongside the perching on the precipice of Autopsy and vintage Death. Riffs resonate with stinking odours, one moment acting as fetid doomscapes of utter horror, the next scurrying towards a Suffocation level of morbid brutality.

Spiral Crypts is instantly enjoyable and easily adapts to different climates which range from billowing, bludgeoning bluster and to sickly primordial stodge. Disembodiment stomp through slime like the brainless undead, existing on blubbery riffs and the dull sodden thuds of bass and drum.

‘Infected To Rot’, ‘Putrification’ and ‘Sentient Inorganic Mess’ all boast the expected silt coating, wading in the same bucket as Incantation whereby dense walls of dampness cause the lungs to tighten and the hair to frizz. ‘Stygian Overture’ is one unhygienic pile of mouldy gnashing as the slithering chest-inhabiting vocals chomp on their own entrails. The slamming shut of a thousand coffin lids couldn’t compare to the macabre clatter of the drums. It’s all very horrible; a swirling gloop more that thickens with every riff.

Disembodiment is an indigestible platter of limb lasagne and genital soup, wholesomely familiar but only existing to test the gag reflex. I like it.

Neil Arnold

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