Album
Type : Full Length
Date Released:
19/2/2013
Label:
Unique Leaders Record/Hammerheart
Records
Ascending
to the Worms, album track listing:
1. Intro (Quietus)
2. To Postulate Unconditional Perversions
3. Fragment Of The Paradigm
4. Rending Shades Of Deformity
5. Abolishing The Divine Structure
6. Dysfunction
7. Echoes / Deprivation Of The
Quintessential Source
8. A Peaceful Descent (Instrumental)
9. Consume to Defile
10. Ascending to the Worms
11. Virulent Affliction
Bio:
Los Angeles based Brutal Death Metal band
Euphoric Defilement release their long awaited debut full length album
“Ascending to the Worms”. For fans of Disgorge, Severed Savior, and Decrepit
Birth, this album will prove to you that Euphoric Defilement will become the
next installment to an elite list of ultimate brutality. With inconceivable
speed and accuracy, crushing riffs, and an overall sound to make any sane
person lose their mind, “Ascending to the Worms” is a must have release by
Unique Leader Records/Hammerheart Records. You can expect the same mind blowing
intensity Euphoric Defilement is known for, along with technicalities and
surprises to shed a whole new light on what this band will become.
Recommended if you like: Disgorge, Severed
Savior, Decrepit Birth
Line
up:
Andrew Villarreal-Vocals
Juan Hernandez-Guitar
Gabe "T-1000" Lopez-Drums
Tom Myers-Bass
Juan Hernandez-Guitar
Gabe "T-1000" Lopez-Drums
Tom Myers-Bass
Review:
So far this
year while reviewing for the blog I've been sent a batch of some pretty
impressive Death Metal albums that have made me gain more interest in the
sound. For the longest time I have been guilty of pretty much having my ears
dominated by Sludge / Doom, but the boys here have been expanding my palette
(hey, that even sounds like a DM track title, no?). So it is with great
pleasure I submit unto you fine people one of the best DM albums I have ever had
inflicted upon me: Ascending to the Worms
by the truly mighty Euphoric Defilement. This young LA group have unleashed a
ripper of a debut, full of foul stench and putridity. Sounds killer too.
After a menacingly
calm intro track, things get instantaneously hateful with To Postulate Unconditional Perversions. Just pure bludgeoning beats and evil riffs,
the very embodiment of truly brutal DM. It's full of down tempo groove and
rhythm too though for opportune moments to bang your head until your brain resembles
a slush puppy.
Fragments of the Paradigm is more spitfire
solid gold, with double bass so badass it'll feel like somebody trying to drill
out of your head from the inside. The vocals are more guttural than a herd of
pigs charging full pelt into a meat grinder. It's just so fierce and
aggressive, even for a DM record.
Dysfunction is cream of the brutal crop
for me, a highlight among many. Slow and brooding to begin with and then manic
and oppressive within a hair of each other, this is top echelon stuff. I love
the guitars on this record. They're so clear and laden with weight behind them.
Completely ominous in tone, and impossible to resist the urge to throw down to.
BEAUTIFUL.
Echoes / Deprivation of the Quintessential
Source is another eerily slow starter, but once that beat drops this is
straight up murder music. That crawling, chugging riff will ring through your
ears and down your spine for a week after listening to it. It's more contagious
than the common cold. As par for the course it loses its shit completely
further on too. I fucking love this album.
Another
standout cut is Consume to Defile.
Most of this LP sounds like a nuclear meltdown at a plant run by psychopaths.
They actually want Armageddon to occur, and this song is further proof. The
double bass contained within, sounds like the gallop of the four horsemen at the
end of the world, speeding toward your demise. It's an absolute mauler on every
level.
I cannot
stress how much you need to acquire this debut album by ED enough, and I'm sure
that my praise hasn't afforded it the true justice it actually deserves. The
fact that this is just the beginning for this group is enough to make any fan
of extreme music salivate at the potential jams they may be capable of pounding
out. An absolute must for Death Metal - grab it immediately, or miss out on the
start of something very special.
Words: Matt
Fitton
As always show your
support to the band. You can buy the record here. Thanks
to Hammerheart records who are distributing this record for the hook up.
