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DISMORFIA
Immortal Echoes From The Unknown EP

Gurgling Gore (2023)
Rating: 8/10

After a trio of demented demo recordings, Peruvian death / grind merchants Dismorfia finally get round to spewing out their debut EP, Immortal Echoes From The Unknown. Apart from the cover rendition of Mortician’s ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ (which is very good) there are four nasty tracks to inhale and infect the lungs with.

The vocals on this thing are growled through chunks of sick and bubbles of thick phlegm matched only in vileness by the fat, repugnant riffs, the ghastly blast beats and a bass tone that bludgeons. Everything about this release stinks of blubbery carvings of fat as each track has that pungent foulness before the pace is driven to a maniacal and membranous squabble.

The way the instrumentation buzzes on ‘The Awaken Infection’ nods to early UK stalwarts Napalm Death, but the feel in general is of a UK hardcore suggestion only with extra padding and less council estate gruel. ‘Divine Reincarnation’ is a rotten, boiling pit of stinking slime as the bass rolls into the oily coils of the driving percussion.

There is a definite groove to all this, as if Mortician, Carcass and early Napalm Death were sewn together in a bathtub of sediment; the result being the fetid churns of ‘Morbid Degeneration’, a sticky, slurping mess of both mid-tempo grind and faster, pulverising shifts.

Immortal Echoes From The Unknown leaves a burning, sulphur stench once it’s left the room and some utterly hideous stains on the carpet.

Neil Arnold

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