Album Review: Revulsed - Cerebral Contamination
Reviewed by Daniel Phipps
The brutal death metal style is quite a lot more varied in its sound and especially over the past five to ten years we have seen pockets of different sounds come to the forefront of the style. I find that bands are looking at finding a particular niche to concentrate on helping them stand out, be it technicality, brute force, groove lots are going on. What I always am on the look out for are bands who look to the styles classic sound where all of the different areas are covered and Australia’s Revulsed are a pretty damn good example of this.
Cerebral Contamination comes nine years since the band unleashed their debut full length Infernal Atrocity and ever since the band inked a deal four years back with Everlasting Spew, fans have been waiting for new material to be unleashed. Like its predecessor Cerebral Contamination is a feast of technical precision, power, groove; basically all the key elements within brutal death metal can be found within its 35 minute and 59 second run length, and not only are they found the execution is absolutely spot on.
When it's time to flash the intense technical ability Revulsed provide this with a superb display of technical musicianship and then when it's time to execute the power and the groove, the band just assault your audio senses with how they compose their style of death metal. One of the key parts of an album like this is production, it can't be polished in my opinion, to quote one of my friends you need clear not clean production. The riffs need to be audible, but you can't have it too nice and clean otherwise I seriously feel you lose something within its charm if it's anything different.
Cerebral Contamination is a wonderfully crafted slab of brutal death metal, full of great riffs and killer grooves. Revulsed took a long time to follow up the debut record but they really have crafted a stellar follow up which will be an absolute must for brutal death metal fans.
