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Extermination Dismemberment - Serial Urbicide

The Art of Repititive Music - 7%

Disengorge, November 26th, 2023

Extermination Dismemberment is the so-called home for new-comer slam fans, this band proves why slam death metal sucks on ice. The first two real tracks (excluding the intro) are nothing but palm-muted crotches. Excuse me, the first two tracks? No, I was wrong, it's the whole album. The definition of slam back in the era of Suffocation was just a riff in a specific part of this song, and then Devourment used a lot in their song, but not filling the entire song of slams, Devourment added 200 BPM sections, tremolos, et cetera. While Extermination Dismemberment just copy-and-paste all possible to exist "slammy" riffs along with generic, robotic, ear-puking drum beats. And when they try to be a little bit different, they suck. The short tremolo picking at the track Serial Urbanicide on the pre-earrape section has a dissonant harmony. I cited earrape, right? Well, this band just saw some bands doing this, and they applied TWO of those bass-drum earrape, sometimes, it achieves in the most unexpected hour.

The only pro of this album is the guitar tone - that's it - literally nothing is at least mediocre, but it's beyond horrible, beyond disgusting (in the not-so-good way). What makes this albums suck besides some over-loud bass drums, is firstly: the aesthetic - it's standard for slam. Gore? Fuck yeah. Demons? Fuck yeah. Cadavers? Fuck yeah too. To nerdy "yeah I know this cult underground brutal band that sold a tape to his friend that died at Friday 13th of 2005 and published the demo in torrent on PirateBay" slam fans, you can hear the music just by looking at the album cover, and yep, the cover represents the music: rotting chaos, on the bad way.

For some reason, the track Survival has a stupidly different mixing than the other tracks, but goddamn, someone help me? There's still those boosted bass pre-verse sections, along with a verse that seems like a chorus, three crotch notes and a harmonic - so creative, definitely, I've never seen this on slam death metal. And on this track too, there's a different gutturals, while the rest of the album is "BREE!!11", here, on this track, is sounds the vocals of George Fisher (CC).

It sucks.