Band: Necrocest
Title: Prenatal Massacre
Label: Skratch The Surface
Distribution: xxx
Release date: April 19th 2010
Review: CD

With the intention to become the sickest Metal act from the British Isles, South Welch bunch of Necrocest do everything to disgust its audience.
After a first demo, Beneath The Flesh, and a mini-album in 2001, the band signed to Casket Music, releasing its debut album, Dead Pretty, followed by the ability to tour intensively, among which performing live on stage with bands as Immolation, Malevolent Creation, Desecration and Aborted.
In 2008, the quintet entered the Nottin’ Pill Studio with Ginge and Jeff, both of them taking care of recording, engineering and mastering. Prenatal Massacre is the name of this spawning, lasting for only thirty seven minutes, yet filled with ten pieces of total ugliness in its most beautiful definition.
As from opener Incinerate on, Necrocest bring ultra-brutal acts of terror and horror in the vein of the legendary old school. Yet at the same time, this band combines this gore US-oriented Death Metal with modern elements, the latter going for both sound / production and timeless approach. The overall atmosphere is rather gore and the tempo is mainly slow, with several up-tempo to pretty fast pieces and, of course, a subtle Grind-hint.
In case you’re looking for lots of variation, or for something new, something original, something renewing, well, in that case this album won’t do. But in my opinion Necrocest do not need to be the newest Death Metal-hype. The members’ skills and the superb compositions speak for themselves. So if you’re into stuff like early Cannibal Corpse or Suffocation, Mortal Decay, Decapitation, Desecration or Morbid Angel, to name but a few, then this killer record will please you.

86/100

Ivan Tibos.