Like you some Disgorge worship? Well this is just for you. Avgrunn is a four piece Spanish brutal death metal outfit who play in vein of California Disgorgey brutal death metal, and after some lineup changes, demo tapes and an EP, Avgrunn have finally dropped their debut album Conceived Genetically Perverse.
Now I am not the biggest fan of brutal death, and to be honest I am not well versed in it like some people I know, I just know what I like and what I don't, and Disgorge is A-OK in my book, so their usual clones sound good to me if recorded properly and done right, and Avgrunn is no exception. While the recording quality isn't ideal, it is still leaps and bounds above your standard brutal death release, and all the instruments clash well together with the vocals, providing a harmonious blend of oozing groovy goodness.
As for the music itself, the guitars are packed full of tight catchy riffs, the drums are a little standard at times but get the job done for sure and the vocals are on that fine line of crisp and gurgle, providing a strangely diverse sounding vocal approach across the entire canvas...even though they don't change much. As for bass, either I am deaf and can't hear it or they don't have one, but don't let that fool you, the music is a full bodied entity, there isn't much open space left for the imagination to complain about lack of sound, so fuck it, if having two guitarists is your deal, you go girl, it works..
The album is comprised of ten tracks, the first seven being all new recordings, leaving the final three from their 2012 demo, and while it is cool to have additional tracks, all three are heard in better quality earlier in the album and it seems a little pointless to include them, but hey a seven track release would have been half assed. But as far as the promo tracks are concerned, they're not far off from their mastered cousins, they just sound muddier and slightly less tight, but overall pretty much the same thing.
All nitpicking aside, Avgrunn deliver a fun little California style brutal death album and while they are far from innovative, it's still entertaining to listen to if you're bored with your Disgorge records and considering they are practically on the other side of the globe, they perform the style well, and do be fair, the performance is good, the recording quality is good, and it kept me interested all the way through, so it deserves a a pat on the back, I just wish Avgrunn took a note from their neighbors Wormed and explored a bit more into the genre.
p.s. whoever did the art for this needs to be fucking fired.
SHIT RATING: GOOD
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