Cease of Breeding is one of Greece’s most brutal death metal
bands. I discovered these guys via Amputated Vein Records (like plenty of other
brutal death bands). If you want a recommendation of a new SLAMMING brutal
death band that will cause your head to explode, Cease of Breeding would be
that recommendation. When I first looked them up, I listened to their debut EP
and hated it (it actually is pretty horrid). About a year later, I got my hands
on a promo copy of their debut full-length, Sounds of Disembowelment. With eight
tracks of slamming brutality, Cease of Breeding win my support despite their
crappy EP with this album. Although there are plenty of other underground
brutal death bands that are far much better like Ezophagothomia, Visceral
Disgorge, Disentomb, Bloodboil, Devourment, Cerebral Bore, and Vomit the Soul,
this album has been a relief after sifting through almost 30 shitty brutal
death records!
This is one of those albums where a lot of the brutality is
caused by the sound of the album, not the actual music behind it. I’m not sure
if the band did this on purpose, but they completely distorted their amps when
recording this record. And I don’t mean a little distortion here and there on
the mic, I mean they went WAY BEYOND distorting EVERYTHING; which actually
gives the album an extremely crushing sound. The thing is, it doesn’t sound bad
because you can still generally hear everything; so it’s not like it’s so
distorted that it sounds shitty. It can get a bit irritating after a while for
those of you who are sound quality freaks (like me, although I’m more tolerant
than most) because it’s always distorted.
The album starts off with a radio call saying “that’s a
direct order, do it now” which is then followed by an ear-shredding explosion
of slamming brutality. I knew at that moment that this was going to be one of
the most brutal records I’ve heard since Reek of Pubescent Despoilment by Guttural
Secrete. The musicians and the majority of what they play is pretty generic as
far as fucking slamming brutal death goes. But I mean, I love this kind of music;
and I guess since I don’t listen to TONS AND TONS of bands from this smallish
genre, I haven’t been worn out of the generic style like I have with deathcore.
That’s why I wouldn’t particularly recommend this to anyone who isn’t into
SLAMMING brutality like Devourment and early Aborted.
The vocals are your traditional semi-pig squealed inhales.
These ones actually sound really good and help match the brutality and darkness
of the rest of the band. I do wish that the vocals had more of a diverse range
of sound because they pretty much always sound the same for the duration of the
album. But the fact that they sound really good makes up for that lack in
diversity.
Overall, this album is indescribably brutal and is actually
fairly strong despite the small amount of faults it holds. I would give this
album 15/20. I would recommend this to people who like the most brutal music
out there; not so much to the lighter metalheads. But if you are curious, by
all means, give this record a spin because it’s good.
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