Devourment - Conceived In Sewage

Published February 25 2013

*=Staff's pick	Legalize Homicide Fifty Ton War Machine Conceived In Sewage Fucked With Rats March To Megiddo Today We Die, Tomorrow We Kill Heaving Acid Carved Into Ecstasy Parasitic Eruption

Genre	Death Metal	Mike Majewski	Vocals
Tracks	9	Ruben Rosas	Guitar
Running time	34 Min.	-	Guitar
Label	Relapse Records	Chris Andrews	Bass
Release	19 February 2013	Erik Park	Drums
Country	USA	-	Keyboard
Producer	-
Similar artists	Prostitute Disfigurement, Skinless, Defeated Sanity

Devourment's 1999 debut 'Molesting the Decapitated' has been hailed as a landmark release in the slam death genre (basically brutal death metal with an excess of breakdowns). Following a never ending change of members and general troubles within the band we find ourselves in the year 2013 and the release of the bands mere fourth full-length.

Compared to the debut the breakdowns on 'Conceived in Sewage' are kept to a minimum revealing a rather standard brutal death metal sound, thus losing what once made Devourment fairly original. The music is generally well performed and the vocals and production ok. Still I can't help to notice I have heard every single note on this album before. This is nothing more than a standard garden variety brutal death metal album.

What makes matters even worse is the lack of songwriting skills. This is predictable, boring and follows every rule in the book. A few times some of the songs take a bit of an interesting development, but they generally fade back into boredom and predictability before they get the chance to take of properly. I sincerely cannot pick a single favourite track from this album and most of the time I find myself thinking of what to have for dinner or urging to switch to the new Suffocation instead.

There are some brilliant bands out there bending the rather narrow brutal death metal formula making for an interesting listen. The Devourment of 2013 is not one of those bands. If you're new to the genre you might love this. If you've been around for a while, try Prostitute Disfigurement or Skinless instead.

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
7	2	7	6	3

Summary
3 chalices of 10 - Tengan