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CREMULATION
Amalgamated Abomination

Iron Fortress (2024)
Rating: 8/10

Cremulation is a Welsh death metal band you must check out. This trio has only existed since 2022 but they are sure to make waves, not only on the UK circuit but hopefully worldwide because this debut full-length offering has such a vile sound.

When I slapped this on I honestly thought the speakers were bulging with slime and the stereo was coated in sediment. As ‘Resurrection Of The Rotten’ lumbers out of the plug hole one immediately reaches for the disinfectant to combat the grime of guitar and bass. Fuzzy and fetid, Cremulation oozes steadily like a stream of spilled intestines; fatty liquids bubble to the phlegmy vocal gasps. ‘Gastric Broth’ slithers like a sickly leakage, traipsing through waste with its puke-clogged churning.

Just two tracks in and Amalgamated Abomination is already the filthiest UK release this year as ‘Flesh Chamber’, ‘Are You Dead?’ and the title track grind with sludgy menace as the vocals gurgle through levels of choking smog and algae. There are wafts of punkiness as well as doom, but first and foremost this is death metal slurry as if someone has dredged the contents of a bowel, thrown it in a blender and chugged down the gloupy soup.

‘Dig Your Own Grave’ and ‘Coffin Juice’ follow suit as rank, congealed trudges dripping with pus as the drums pound with morbid glee, while ‘Werewolf’ grinds with a sadistic groove as those vocals now become barks of maniacal horror entwined with vomited burps. ‘Strangled And Mangled’ finds a burst of energy within the blubbery coils before ‘Three Heads In A Freezer’, complete with hilarious dialogue, wraps things up as if it were cling film around a maggot-ridden corpse.

Not only is this debut outing a mucky bucket of splatter but it’s fun too with those smutty riffs and unhygienic gasps. This is everything you want from an unclean death metal album, so dig in and chomp on the secreted waste that is Amalgamated Abomination and revel in the sleaze.

Neil Arnold

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