Defigurement - 2025 - Endbryo

(29:42; Nefarious Industries)






















This may well be a debut album but the guilty parties have all been around for quite a while as the line-up is drummer Mike Heller (Malignancy, Raven, ex-Fear Factory), guitarist Kevin Fetus (Lack Of Interest, Fetus Eaters, ex-Murder Construct), bassist/noise architect DMT (Mormon Mincers, ex-Bad Acid Trip), and vocalist Matthias Joyce aka "Matti Güey" (Rottenness, To Violently Vomit, Formless Master). When this arrived the other day, I read who was on it, saw it was described as a “unified creation born of sci-fi death metal infiltrated by hyperactive overtones of gore, grind, prog, and experimentalism”, and felt it was just what I wanted to hear at the time, and I was right. 

I probably play ‘Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope’ far too often to be healthy (this year it has taken over from ‘Scum’ as my go-to album, and before that it was ‘Music Inspired by The Snow Goose’, go figure), and while this contains material which is lengthier and more varied, it does remind me in some ways of that in like Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Defigurement are doing exactly what they want in a very heavy manner which may well, or may not, split off at total right angles. The result is one of those very heavy albums which would be rejected out of hand by those who listen to Taylor Swift, yet those who want their music to be somewhat more brutal and less regulated will find this is an incredibly diverse release. It would be very easy to say the highlight is the drumming as Mike is everywhere, all at once, but Kevin and DMT need to take a bow for the rest of the arrangements while Matti’s vocal approach is just right for this style of music. I must confess I did a double take with track 9, “Eternal Dusk (interlude)” as it is such a gentle solo piano number, I actually thought the album had ended!

If you listen to the likes of Birdflesh, Cryptopsy, Gridlink, Cephalic Carnage, Atrae Bilis, Brutal Truth, Gigan, Anata, Artificial Brain, Antigama or Necrophagist, then you are going to love this.  

Kev Rowland, October 2025

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