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VOMITROT
Emetic Imprecations EP

Personal (2024)
Rating: 8/10

After the gloriously ghoulish 2022 debut album Rotten Vomit, Swedish trolls Vomitrot spew out their next assignment with a six-song EP, Emetic Imprecations.

This latest release may be just twenty-five minutes in length, but once you claw your way into the putrid folds of tracks like ‘Emptophilic Cro-Magnon’ and ‘Heinous Sulphuric Phlegm’ you’ll be glad of such a fleeting horror. Members Vomitroth (vocals and bass), Rotted Vomitor (guitar and vocals) and Cave Belcher (drums) are bone-munching cannibals thumping Neanderthal rhythms which echo through cold caverns alongside the screams of their victims.

Like a lot of this subterranean sludge, Emetic Imprecations has an atmosphere that reeks of Incantation, a habitat smelling of damp dirt and mould but coated in a mulch and mucous which provides padding for the hypnotic horror of the gloomy riffs. The other handful of track titles also match the already decadent pastures as ‘Envomited’, ‘Odious Fetid Aberrations’, ‘Gomorrahian Excrement’ and ‘Vomitous Execrations’ emerge as bludgeoning blusters, driven by the fury of the horrific percussion.

There’s a lot of pace on offer here, frenzied twists which melt into rhythmic pulses of putrefiance, particularly on ‘Odious Fetid Aberrations’ which churns like a peat bog of soupy silt. However, at whichever pace the EP operates, the shifts are morbidly mesmeric, and the opening grind of ‘Gomorrahian Excrement’ is a fine example of the intense grinding rolls of squalid butchery.

The exchanges between slime-coated mid-tempo rolls and hideous scurries are to be marvelled at and it just doesn’t get any nastier than ‘Vomitous Execrations’, an abysmal and perverse myriad of entwined heaves and sprints where riffs rage, clank and fester in tandem. Everything merges throughout as dense clusters of grimness, a spine of putrid bass running through a cut like ‘Heinous Sulphuric Phlegm’ as if it were some demonic twang vibrating in the depths of doom.

Macabre, miserable and stuffier than a well used coffin, Emetic Imprecations is an unhygienic hell hole of a record.

Neil Arnold

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