{"id":19190,"date":"2014-06-20T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T00:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=19190"},"modified":"2014-06-20T13:02:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T13:02:44","slug":"album-review-desecration-cemetery-sickness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-desecration-cemetery-sickness\/","title":{"rendered":"DESECRATION – Cemetery Sickness (2014) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

DESECRATION
Cemetery Sickness<\/strong><\/span>
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\nMetal Age Productions (2014)<\/span>
Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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One thing is for certain about these Welsh lunatics; this unbalanced trio are the only band to have a song title called \u2018Cunt Full Of Maggots\u2019. But hey, such a title is the norm\u2019 for Desecration \u2013 these disturbed death metallers have been vomiting out this sort of stuff since the early 90s. <\/p>\n

If all you headbangers were of the opinion that Carcass were Britain\u2019s only purveyors of the perverse then you are wrong, because with their eighth full-length slab of pus-filled horror, Desecration have once again confirmed themselves as the often ignored kings of UK gore metal.<\/p>\n

\u2018I, Cadaver\u2019, \u2018Rotten Brain Extraction\u2019, \u2018Cabletie Castrator\u2019 and \u2018Cut Up & Fed To The Dog\u2019 are a just a few of the cerebrally cyst-ridden hymns you\u2019ll be hammered by on this 11-track journey into the bowels of Desecration\u2019s insane asylum. It\u2019s been six years since the band\u2019s rather average 2008 Forensix<\/em> platter of splatter, but I\u2019m pleased to say that the band is back to their usual vileness with Cemetery Sickness<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Those responsible for the musical acts of butchery are vocalist \/ guitarist Ollie Jones, drummer Michael Hourihan and bassist Andi Morris. As one should expect from a posse of musicians which has spent time with other great UK bands such as Onslaught and Extreme Noise Terror, Desecration is as professional as ever and begins its parasitic raid on the flesh with the gruelling gasps of the title track. This clanking lump of phlegm rattles in the lungs like a clot that refuses to shift itself from its warm, threatening bed of tissue. Boosted by the gore-gurgling vocals and a hammering drum, it\u2019s typical Desecration: violent, rancid and bubbling with blood. <\/p>\n

The line-up changes of the past seem to have never affected the band\u2019s ability to spit blood with ever enchanting malice, and the bile-filled coughs never let up once you\u2019ve let these doctors of disease into your home. \u2018Coffin Smasher\u2019 features a clinical drum spray and sporadic guitar jab which has the effect of a circular saw buzzing inconsistently towards your ears before the trio rushes into a storm of nail-gun drums, battering bass and machine-gun guitars. Desecration combines the steely athleticism of Carcass with the lobotomized snarl of Autopsy, but only faster and more rabid. <\/p>\n

Indeed, for a band to have its debut album Gore And Perversion<\/em> (1995) banned due to its horrid cover art ,and then for the group to be arrested and subsequently released with a warning to \u201ctone it down\u201d meant that Desecration were always going to garner a cult following. <\/p>\n

Even so, in spite of the shock tactics, there has always been a talent behind the band. With the likes of \u2018Recipes Of Horror\u2019, \u2018Mortuary Debauchery\u2019 and that timeless classic \u2018Cunt Full Of Maggots\u2019, Desecration\u2019s latest malignant tumour was always going to embed itself into our flesh the way we hoped it would.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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