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Visceral Evisceration - Incessant Desire for Palatable Flesh

The Land of Pleasures Unattainable - 95%

elmet, June 14th, 2008

What we have here is a surpassing epicurean beauty that outshines any of its rare kind, taking us on a nocturnal journey wandering blissfully through the realms of the necrophilia. For those who have a poetic discrimination, the highly peculiar lyrics can be best forgotten and thrown away never to be found again. As for the music it may sound dull at times. Yet the very perfect combination of the two results in an aura that fills me with sensations hard to express. No doubt it’s the product of some bizarre and fanciful minds occupied with the overwhelming wonder of the perverse, a tale that is woven with the most intrinsic worth not to appeal to the heart of every man. It’s not of those albums you can listen too often but when you do it surely and truly gets you in its grasp. For example the first two songs “(I Am) Enamoured of Dead Bodies” and “At the Epicurean Gyneacologist” alone will be enough to a send sheer visceral excitement down your spine. “Chewing Female Genital Parts” and “Tender Flesh... on the Bier” would be my other favorites here.

I guarantee you that the female singer’s soul purifying voice, alas not heard much, will reach the innermost recesses of your being as if sprung up from the most tantalizing imaginations of the mind. Whereas the same can not be said of the death vocals that is cliché ridden style with a bit of immature feel, though full of emotions. But be sure this can be easily overlooked when combined with the doom metal riffs that are fucking awesome most of the time.

High and low, I’ve been rummaging for this kind of music for so long but slowly gather the strength to admit that may never again enjoy the likes of it. It’s not hard to see why this kind of music will never reach a general recognition, but for the lovers of the sui generis metal, this little piece of music will remain as one of the most extraordinary album, a celestial beauty unknown to the known world, and its creators will certainly stand as one of the few really creative minds of its kind. Don’t let lyrics put you off, for I completely agree with Sternodox’s astonishment about juxtaposition of the colossal musical beauty and the universal pandemonium of the lyrics, but isn’t there a thin line between genius and insanity after all, a marriage between heaven and hell?... Give it a chance, because you will eventually discover a rewarding shrine of ultimate doom forged in the land of pleasures unattainable.