Album Review: NecroticGoreBeast – Repugnant (Comatose Music)

Canadian brutal death metal band, NecroticGoreBeast are back, and back with something truly horrific. It’s ‘Repugnant’ and it will be released on November 3rd, 2023, via Comatose Music.

Repugnant in name, Repugnant in nature. It’s NecroticGoreBeast and they are back with arguably their most extreme offering of bloody viscera yet.

A band that embodies the ‘brutal’ part of the genre ‘brutal death metal’, yet have always shown they are a cut above the rest through their technical prowess and ability to keep things sounding fresh. Which is always impressive considering this music, and what they do, is born from a cesspit of gore.

Be under no false illusions, Repugnant is akin to the bloody bile that comes out after a lengthy vomiting session. Where the stomach has been torn to shreds, the muscles are aching, and you’re beginning to choke on the stringy mess that continues to pour out of the body. It’s ten tracks of gruelling, chaotic, and curmudgeonly heavy music, but like an addiction, it’s very hard to not keep taking one more ‘hit’.

A lot of this comes from the fact that NecroticGoreBeast are one of the best to do this. Exemplifying what it means to control the chaos, yet consistently sounding like their possessed by demonic beings and unable to hold any of their fury back. The contrast means there is so much to unpick as the album goes on. Sure, you can close your eyes and enter a hellscape of blood and guts, but the real fun comes from digging around within the layers of entrails.

This is appealing too because on the surface, NecroticGoreBeast make each track exceptionally listenable. Unless you are the type of person to turn your nose up at this kind of music. The clarity within the instruments, riffs that cut so deep they’re hitting bone and drums that leave the listener with a splitting headache, is impressive. Then there are the vocals; screaming like a horror movie victim at some stages, sounding like a drain blocked with blood and mucus at others, but delivering an overall level of guttural horror that sticks.

This is NecroticGoreBeast and this is Repugnant, one of the 2023’s strongest brutal death metal releases.

NecroticGoreBeast – Repugnant Track Listing:

1. Repugnant
2. Unsedated Face Removal
3. Consensual Castration
4. Self-Inflicted Cerebral Edema
5. Gouged Eye Copulation
6. Masturbated to Death
7. Nail Clipper Circumcision
8. Ruptured Priapism
9. Phlebotomized
10. Frozen Feces Evisceration

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