This is obviously a new issuing of Demilich's offering from the past. My immediate reaction is to wonder who thought this was good enough to do another production of it. They claim to be, or at least Repulse's info sheet of them, a brtual grinding death metal. I would simply classify them as technical grindcore. There are possibly hundreds of riffs on this album, and they are all very distincly noticeable. The selection of riffs for a particular song is totally arbitrary, and no transitions are present. As a bonus though, the drums occasionally fit with the music. I guess however these are the qualities that basically define grindcore. However, just as Napalm Death's "Diatribes" seems to be lacking emotion and intensity, "Nespithe" has no direction and is very tiresome to listen to. Of course a lot of this has to do with the engineering/mixing of the album. It just sounds like a bunch of people recorded tracks in a garage without practicing and then forcably combined them afterwards. I should mention the guttoral voice. The vocals are probably of the lowest you'll ever hear (if indeed you CAN hear them). They are pointless though, being so low they completely lack any emotion, are devoid of intensity, are unintelligable, and don't fit with the music at all. The info sheet says the vocalist is the most characteristic point of the band, it's actually the only characteristic point. The mention of Carcass and Bolt Thrower are unfounded. Carcass was intense and listenable, Demilich is not. Bolt Thrower is just noise, but it's still most mosh'able and aggressive than Demilich is. While the vocals may be fascinatingly low for a human, the album should only appeal to a limited subset of the grindcore fanbase.
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