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HEMORRHOID
Raw Materials Of Decay

Extremely Rotten / Headsplit (2024)
Rating: 8.5/10

With more gore than you can shake a soggy, severed limb at, Portland, Oregon-based death grind lunatics Hemorrhoid seep out from your plug hole and slither across your floor. After releasing an utterly disgusting demo in 2023 Hemorrhoid returns like an unwelcome STD, only this time with extra thick layers of pus.

Mixing fetid blasts of mulch with slower grinding globular goo, this album has everything you need if you’re a sicko who enjoys feasting on their own waste. With track titles like ‘Ectopic Scrambling’, ‘Liquified In A Caustic Sludge’, ‘Moderate To Severe Plaque Psoriasis’ and potential Grammy award winner ‘Ultimate Commode Of Chaos And Carnage’, one can only smirk at the demented dishes of slop that these guys serve up in their repulsive restaurants where platters are offered with a gunk emulsion.

‘Exogenous Intestinal Blockage’ slithers and squirts circa vintage Carcass and Repulsion; twitching like manky blubber as squalid riffs roll like discarded organs via a gaping rectal passage. Entwined are grindcore blasts of guttural bass and hectic pustular percussion layered with vocals that sound as if said frontman has had his tongue extracted and replaced by gristly clumps of body jelly.

Everything about this 25 minute opus reeks of freshly stirred yet sticky blood mashed with cysts, separated pancreas, severed colon, stringy arteries and gelatinous membrane to form a vast quivering wreckage of indecipherable muck as its creator grins behind a hideous kaleidoscopic mask of stretched vein webbing. ‘A Dozen Suppurating Masses’ and ‘Sliced And Tucked’ may only spread their mutated form for two minutes but they squabble and flap so hideously, in turn bringing groove-laden menace daubed with darkly comedic perversity.

Maniacal members Disgustor, Crystal Seth and Obsessor Of Necrotic Coitus have salivated with disturbing glee during the creation of this belching cesspit; a slurping gore geyser of an opus that attaches itself to your spine like bubblegum to a shoe. Succumb to the muck.

Neil Arnold

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