Rating: 7.8

Country: USA

Genre: Blasting Brutal Death

Record Label: Sevared Records

Release Date: 2008

Track list:
1. Mutilation By Double Penetration
2. Skull Fragments
3. Hereditary Retardation
4. Pedophilic Manipulation
5. Pool of Excrement
6. Transgender Dismember
7. Splatter Fecal Matter
8. Meat Grinder Homicide
9. Wake Up, Murder

Total playing time 32:48

Band Website: Gortuary

Gortuary - Manic Thoughts of Perverse Mutilation

Oscar Padilla - Vocals
Andres Guzman - Guitar
Glenn Davis - Guitar
Jae Vizcaya - Bass
Josh Mauney - Drums

Ah crap, I'd just gotten new furniture installed in my room after Pathology [review] destroyed the previous one. The word got around and a new band from the same scene going by the name of Gortuary volunteered for the task and to look good and earn scene points they got the work done in an even more comprehensive manner – they smashed down the walls and exposed my balls.

So the music of Gortuary sounds nothing like a gory Obituary as some might foolishly conjecture and is more in the vein of the uncompromising light-speed ultra-brutal death metal acts such as Disgorge, Unmerciful and Liturgy, bands that are never able to get the task done discreetly and always seem to be in a tearing hurry of some sort, brutally tossing people aside when they have the time and trampling on them when they don't. Within moments of exposure to their music your brain will start seething and this can be felt by touching your moist forehead. But Gortuary don't allow that to continue to the extent of you getting dehydrated and dropping on the ground out of weariness, and that they achieve through several ways. First, their music doesn't go chug chug chug like a dumb idiot band. Second, even though they indulge in the now mandatory guitar wankery like their fellow Californian brutal bands, it sounds seriously pissed off and isn't wholly inconsequential; at times their technical flourishes are even innovative and cool sounding. Furthermore, by imbibing qualities of Gorgasm, they are able to maintain some continuity and sense within that cacophony. Their riffs also seem to have an underlying Corpsegrinder Cannibal Corpse-esque buzzsaw property to them. Third, their brutal breakdowns are fucking massive and barbaric, sounding like Skinless panicking during their Godzilla moments. When Gortuary's speeding brutal music switches to such parts, it is like your opponent in a street fight stopping his frenzied fist-flailing to look you in the eye for just long enough to fill him up with hatred and anger (doesn't take much time) and then with full backswings proceeding to clobber your face in, in a relatively slow but much, much more powerful manner.

Neatly wrapped and delivered in a blaring production with awesome overpowering growls sounding as though the vocalist is gurgling glass sand in his fucked up throat ensure that everything is fine and dandy for a brutal death metal album. However, not content with mere physical dominance, Gortuary go a step ahead and incorporate highly expressive leads into their brutal music. Starting off somewhat innocuously, the leads then pick up such a blistering Krisiun-like pace that your ears catch fire. Evidently, even during such breaks Gortuary wish to maintain their raging momentum and with extraordinarily maniacal drumming to aid that section, their wish remains fulfilled. It cannot be denied that the tedium of blasting contributes in no small way to make Manic Thoughts of Perverse Mutilation such a devastating album, but because it is a well thought out one, it surpasses the products of its like-minded brutal peers and even raises the standard of this sub-genre.

July 25th, 2008