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DISCARNATION
Demo (2023)

One can hear the foundations of Ghent in Belgium rumbling as dismal death-doom clan Discarnation erupts from its subterranean passage. I know nothing about the hive mind behind this but what I do know is that this six-track affair crushes. For 33 minutes the listener gets coated in a peculiar sediment cast adrift by horrid, yet steady gusts of abysmal dragging.

Opener ‘The Divine’ begins as a slog until the tolling percussion signals a change in tempo, and from then on it’s still a murky rattle that suffocates. Vocally it’s the expected guttural remoteness which echoes around the soot-coated cistern as the aching sludge ooze of ‘Solemn Crown’ crawls through the muddy gusset of its own pitiful form. A miserable lead twitches in the humidity, yet there’s no room to breathe within such pits of extreme gloom. Meanwhile, ‘Procession’ lives up to its title as a grim black congealed liquid of ghoulishness slithers through the streets, consuming all in its filthy wake.

All six tracks act as squalid, stinking tides of chunder; rancid blubbery masses of slow moving rot climaxing with the repulsive slop of ‘Haven Of Despair’, which is an evil, sluggish soundscape of doom that eventually unravels into a gushing geyser of gnashing orifices and belching bowels. Yep, it’s all-consuming rank death-doom that leaves you as flat as a pancake and bloated on compost.

For those of you interested, the demo is available here.

Neil Arnold

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