This album is like getting hit on the head by a sledgehammer. I love it. The only thing you can surmise and be correct about from the album's packaging is that Avulsed are a goregrind band. And because of that, you can expect a little of the melodic grinding that Carcass made famous years ago. But what goregrind band can you NOT say that about? Avulsed are far from just another Carcass tribute band. Their music is very rooted in death metal, with some of the most guttural lows you've ever heard. But they're not paper thin like most of the toilet bowl vocals you hear.

Avulsed chug out some really intense and pounding riffs. The leadwork is quite melodic, but it does nothing to stay the force of this band's rhythm section. There's nothing pretty about Avulsed's music.

The album opener "Filth Injected" had me worried that this band were going the Dimmu Borgir route as it opens with a real atmospheric guitar part and some keyboards, but that's quickly squashed and the band's real sound comes out. "Divine Wine" shows some of the band's national pride. They're from Spain and there's a little flamenco flair to the lead work in this track. And of course, the cover of "Ace Of Spades" that closes the album deserves mention because they did the track jusice. It's close enough to the original, but it also fits on a goregrind album.

I haven't been listening to a lot of metal lately, other than these reviews, because a lot of it hasn't impressed recently. It seemed to me that things were growing stagnant. But maybe what I really needed was a break. Because this album, and a few other ones I've heard recently, have been really refreshing, even while not doing one thing I'd consider groundbreaking or new. "Gorespattered Suicide" has been a shot of life (death?) to me.