Ivan Tibos.

There are so many re-releases lately, from (especially) Death-stuff from the Old Times. There’s nothing wrong with that for a couple of reasons. More than once, the re-issue comes with bonus material which is previously unreleased, or extremely hard to find (limited vinyl recordings, for example, live material from unprofessional yet rememberable gigs, or demo tapes). Sometimes the re-release is sold out for a long time and therefor very welcome. However, there are re-releases that add nothing at all, and it’s only interesting for those who do not have that specific material at all.

I was thinking and philosophising about a decent, honest introduction to this album. How would I introduce this legendary KULT act? How could I introduce this new epos? Would it be fair to refer to the glorious past? Should it be opportune to focus on this band’s unique, and more-than-interesting history? And how would I express my gratitude? Carcass just are ultimate protagonists of Extreme Music, and without this band, the current scene certainly would not be what it has become nowadays…

The year of 2007, somewhere in the cold North… Two sickos, called Lenets and Kolkka, wanted to express their appreciation / gratitude / whatever for bands like earlier Napalm Death and S.O.D. by going into extremes. ‘let’s sicken the world with gore and brutality’, they were thinking, and so they did when entering the studio.

The year of 2007, somewhere in the cold North… Two sickos, called Lenets and Kolkka, wanted to express their appreciation / gratitude / whatever for bands like earlier Napalm Death and S.O.D. by going into extremes. ‘let’s sicken the world with gore and brutality’, they were thinking, and so they did when entering the studio.

For two decades, in mean time, Deeds Of Flesh are standard for massive, brain-splattering Death madness, and this through eight full lengths that all of them have been received with open arms (and banging heads!): Gradually Melted (re-released in 1998 via Repulse Records, the very same label that released both next albums too), Trading Pieces, Inbreeding The Anthropophagi (with guest vocals by Disgorge’s Matti Way), (and from now on via the band’s own record label Unique Leade

In a series of anthologic compilations (there’s also the one from Sweden’s pre-Tiamat-formation Treblinka, for example; review to come up soon), Century Media come with Transgressing The Afterlife - The Complete Recordings 1988-2002. As the title of the compilation suggests, this release deals with the whole sonic history of any material ever (officially) done by Abramelin, one of Australia’s greatest, and oldest, Death Metal bands.

Twitching Tongues are a quintet with several Disgrace-members (the one from Los Angeles, California) (guitar players Taylor Young (also vocals) and Leo Orozco, vocalist Colin Young, drummer Mike Cesario, and bassist Kyle Thomas), that I knew from their 2011-long player Sleep Therapy (I Scream Records) only. Apparently there were a split and an EP in 2012 as well.

Spanish act Onirophagus (currently with members of Decapitated Christ, Entropia and Empanadilla De Pus) was formed about two years ago (September 2011) in order to pay tribute to the early-nineties Death and Doom-Death scene. Last year there was an EP (Defiler Of Hope; I’m still searching for this material), and just like that material, the new stuff on Prehuman was done at the famous Moontower Studio with Javi Félez behind the knob-panel.

I only knew this Czech band from their collaboration on last year’s split with Germany’s Vindorn and Sator Marte; the latter is a band that shares Triumph, Genus’s instrumentalist Svar, by the way. Triumph, Genus consists of this multi-instrumentalist, as well as vocalist / lyricist Jaroslav, and this first full length comes on both CD and vinyl (the latter, however, limited to 300 copies only).

Finally, after five years, Carneia return with their second full length, after 2008’s White Coma Light (Offerandum Records). In mean time, the band toured with acts like AmenRa, Black Heart Rebellion, Maudlin or Bulls On Parade.