Rating: 7.5

Country: USA

Release Date: 2008

Record Label: Grindhead Records

Track list:
1. Incisions of Perverse Debauchery
2. Creation of Mass Destruction
3. Blessed Through Suffering
4. Eviscerated Human Torso
5. Defiled Autopsy Remnants
6. Reborn to Kill
7. Pathogens of Cystic Decay
8. Lycantropy of Dead Flesh
9. Necrotic Prayers for Genocide

Total playing time 29:03

Band Website: Pathology

Pathology - Incisions of Perverse Debauchery

Dave Astor - Drums, Vocals
Levi Fuselier - Vocals
Tim Tiszczenko - Bass, Vocals

Practicing brutality in San Diego since a couple of years, Pathology is a band comprising of former Cattle Decapitation and The Locust drummer Dave Astor, guitarist Tim Tiszczenko who also plays in Being Killed along with Dave, and Levi Fuselier who is the newest vocalist of the American Disgorge and performed vocals on their last album Parallels of Infinite Torture. And this by the way happens to be the follow-up album to their 2006 release Surgically Hacked, which it effectively blows away.

You are greeted with the familiar cyclonic onslaught: guitars gushing uncontrollably from your speakers like a group of shy braces-wearing girls, accompanying drums adroitly hurling double bass debris towards you at incredible speeds, vocals bellowing like fierce demonic winds of yore and sweeping everything in its path. In the face of such a vicious attack, admittedly it is difficult not to get carried away with the music. But then a wall of noise which overly brutal fans tend to smash their empty heads against this is not, for Pathology write riffs with that can be incisive and are not necessarily filler as is often the case with such bands, and even within their uncompromising fiery atmosphere make room for rapid pulverising breakdowns and flesh-ploughing chugs, briefly also adopting Deeds of Flesh's narrative compositions for some of their songs.

For reference, you can consider acts such as Disgorge, Liturgy, Divaricate, though none of them are as virulent and unwholesome as Pathology. You see, Pathology's music has a darkish, thick, viscous quality to it, sounding as though it were mutated with the music of the underrated Spanish brutal band bearing exactly those traits - Mockery. More than the delectable production that does a commendable job in obfuscating the instruments to the extent of creating an ultra cohesive sound, it's the vocals of Levi that give the music a convincing sickly aura. Surely, his dense and unfathomably low guttural growls cannot emanate from not just one oral orifice, but simultaneously from countless other openings covering his entire body like sweat glands, no doubt giving off an odorous, sticky and murky feeling just like the nature of its secretion and liberally smearing the music with it. These vocals permeate the music, the music carrying this putrid aura with it wherever it goes no matter how fast it moves. Which reminds me, so fast is their music that if it were possible to pause it at any given point of time and physically witness it, that image would surely be blurred with motion lines. Lastly, I must add that the colourful artwork by Mike Hrubovcak really brightened up my day; it's so much better than the reddish-brown diarrhoeic dysentery shit like ones you generally get to see these days.

So Pathology's music won't endow you with epiphanies and turn you into a new person - brutal death metal with its shallowness and rigid boundaries rarely does that - but there is no doubt that it will coerce you to turn into a fan. Really, Incisions of Perverse Debauchery has everything a tough brutal death metalhead could ask for and more. Prepare to be overwhelmed.

July 10th, 2008