Sometimes all you need is a brutal wall of sound and some lovely, disgusting album sleeve imagery. I’ve a kid-free Saturday, I’m knackered after a night out and I’ve loads to do so I don’t need relaxing. I need wake-up music and a giggle. Step forth Cerebral Incubation. One look at the album art and song titles and I know I’m not going to fall asleep listening to this 5-track digitally encoded nightmare.
I like how death metal, extreme metal, slam and grindcore bands really don’t take themselves that seriously. Musically maybe, but in of themes it’s like the good old days of the 80s when violent horror films just tried to outdo each other until they became a wonderful deliberate parody of themselves. As well as the brutal thrashing guitars, tin-pot drums, and grunted vocals, Cerebral Incubation have slipped in a few recorded vocals pinched from – I’m guessing – films or TV programmes. Just a couple, but enough to inject a little unexpected humour into proceedings.
“Euphoric Rapture by Decapodiformes” which opens things is a perfect example, with a powerful overacted opening speech (via 3 From Hell) and then a silly little phrase chucked in towards the end. You don’t know whether to act all evil while you air guitar and “teabag the stage” (thank you Psychostick) or giggle. The film “Strange Wilderness” provides the opening spoken words before “Fermented Cranial Inebriating Fluids (Ft Angel Ochoa)” slides into your ears and does horrible things to your brain.
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When you’re using films like Butt Boy to inspire your songs, you obviously have issues. Thankfully they result in gorefest classics such as “Throbbing Abnormalities of a Mutilated Oropharynx”. I mean, you can tell it’s vile without even resorting to your well-thumbed copy of Black’s Medical Dictionary. Particularly slow, slimy and heavy, the midpoint of the EP shows that the band have no intention of letting up.
Saturday Night Live makes a brief appearance at the start of “Infatuated Acroposthion”, but the speech from Girls Trip which kicks off “Hematolagnai Dysmorphia” would on its own rival any of the lyrics that our own beloved Sodomized Cadaver could conjure up.
OK, so it’s five short songs of splatter-filled slam which will leave your speakers covered in bloody mucus. If that’s your thing then a) grab this EP, and b) get psychiatric help, because you scare me.
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