Impaled
Necropolis Records
Horrible, horrible things inspire
Impaled's music. Things like blood,
feces, vomit, and splattered guts. To realize
this, all you have to do is look at their
sickeningly explicit album covers. If you missed
those, the songs themselves would be a dead
giveaway. How can there be any doubt about
titles like "Immaculate Defecation" and
"Gorenography"? What we've got here is four
extremely twisted and perverse black
humorists.
The Oakland quartet accompanies its
fascination with defiled flesh and bodily waste
with a ferocious grindcore assault that will turn
you into a quivering, gelatinous sack of useless
bones and organs. It consists of frantic,
piercing guitar work, machine gun fire drums,
and dual vomitronic vocals that suggest the
intestinal disturbances of a large farm animal.
Impaled is heavy, powerful, and
absolutely revolting.
The band emerged from the same gruesome
Oakland metal scene that produced such
legendary vehicles for the violent dissemination
of the vulgar as Testament,
Possessed, and Forbidden.
Since its '95 formation, Impaled has
put out two full albums, the comically titled
Choice Cuts and more sinisterly named
The Dead Shall Dead Remain. It's the
latter which features "Trocar" and "Back to the
Grave."
Jesse Ashlock
last updated:
08/10/01
