Insidious Decrepancy - The Inerrancy Of Profanation
Style: Technical/brutal deathgrind
Wait, wait...BEFORE you dis this album on the grounds of its terrible/awesome album cover and pretentious song titles alone, let's look a little at the history of this project and the previous album, Decadent Orgy Of Atrocious Suffering. DOOAS is a great disc in its own right, though I'm a bit biased (what reviewer isn't?). It packs a similar-to-Necrophagist punch without all of the guitar histrionics. I don't know whether that makes you, the reader, happier or not, though, so I'll cut to the chase. The first album consisted of 9 tracks of brutal deathgrind with a technical, almost industrial edge to it (programmed drums, but they sound pretty real for the most part), and this one is in a similar vein. By now, you're thinking "eh, nothing special", and you'd be 80% right and 20% DEAD FUCKING WRONG by that preconception. While not technically breaking any new ground, the disc does offer up a pretty unique sound (in the confines of as stuffy a genre as death metal, that is).
Sure there are slams, and I know a lot of people despise the chunky groove of bands like Devourment (hell, if you like Devourment, you already own this because ID is also from Texas, having originally released its debut album on the legendary TXDM label sometime in 2002), but there are a fair share of nice tremolo riffs and interesting moments here to accentuate the brutal slam-'n'-go aspect of the songwriting. What do I mean? Well, listen to the first track, "Befouling The Adoration Of Christ", and almost 2 minutes in you get a mid/later-era Death "slow, epic, emotional" sort of part, only the drumming is very fast, breaking off into a slower, even Death-ier part at a quarter past 2 minutes. Talk about awesome... Speaking of great riffs, the first riff in "Inebriated By The Blood Of Divine Suffering Through Secular Dissection" (curse you all long song titles...luckily I have the handy cut-paste function!!) is absolutely excellent. The drum programming is pretty good, only complaint really goes to the sounds of the cymbals, they sound really thin and...well, programmed/digital. Though maybe that's what he was going for (I doubt that, but whatever). The CD is also relatively short (just under a half hour in 8 average length tracks of 3-4.5 minutes), making its predecessor slightly better...but you should still check out both anyway!
If what I've already said about this album hasn't made you go download or buy it, I have failed in my mission as a reviewer. Therefore, you should...go download or buy it! It's really good...especially if you like similar Texas bands (though ID is a smidge more unique and musically proficient) or the new-wave-of-tech-death-metal.
8.5/10
