1538 - Devourment Legalize Homicide 2013

Texan Devourment have returned to the slaughter with their fourth full-length album, “Conceived in Sewage,” a deeply infectious laceration of Brutal Death Metal that witnesses the band taking yet another step forward. The raging Guttural Slam of “Molesting the Decapitated” is all but a distant memory and, for many, the advent of “Butcher the Weak” served as the official harbinger of doom; an indication that the band were bound to do something different. Things progressed even further with the release of “Unleash the Carnivore,” one of the more thunderous and unrelenting Brutal Death Metal albums of the 2000s, and a record that’s not as far removed from “Butcher the Weak” as many would like to suggest. “Conceived in Sewage” harbors, first and foremost, the cleanest production of any of their past records, and for good reason: Devourment have developed into a more well-rounded Death Metal brute, replete with higher technicality. The tandem riff-work of Rosas and bassist Chris Andrews is gigantic, Park is a behemoth on the drums, barreling ahead with his signature snare rolls, plodding double-bass marches, and a creative assortment of fills and cymbal crashes. He’s an engine, for sure, and his jazzy yet domineering drumming style is wickedly effective. Lastly, the performance of Majewski is just excellent. His vocal register has never been so varied – note the Corpsegrinder-like segment in “Legalize Homicide”.