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Avulsed - Yearning For The Grotesque
2003 AvanteGarde Music
Avulsed - Yearning For The Grotesque

Track Listing:
1.  Wormeaten 
2.  Devourer Of The Dead 
3.  Pale Red Blood 
4.  Sick Sick Sex
5.  Daddy Stew
6.  I Feel Good...Eating Human Flesh
7.  Foetivorous Marriage
8.  Morbid Chef
9.  Cadaver Decapitado
10. Decrepit Sigh

Line-Up:
Vocals
Dave Rotten
Guitars:  Cabra,
Juancar
Bass
Tana
Drums:  Riki

Website:  www.avulsed.com

Shev's Rating:  A-
Overall Rating:  A-

Also be sure to read:
Avulsed - Seven Years Of Decay by Shev

Shev's Review:
Avulsed has always been one of those bands that continue to consistently crank out the same stuff with very little progression from album to album.  They're kind of like the AC/DC of death metal, but not to that extreme.  On top of that, they bring absolutely nothing new to the death metal table...ever.  Oddly enough, I can't ever seem to get enough of these guys.  And with "Yearning For The Grotesque" what should one expect?  More of the same, of course.  Catchy death metal with the occasional sense of melody to help things along, impeccably unique death metal vocals from Dave Rotten, very catchy riffs, and obliterating drums.  For fans of well-structured death metal, you simply can't go wrong with a band like Avulsed that has not only conquered the basics, but continues to build with modern classics like "Daddy Stew", "I Feel Good...Eating Human Flesh", and the surprisingly great "Decrepit Sigh".
Shev's Rating:  A-

Discography (last updated 9.25.06):
Embalmed In Blood demo - 1992
Deformed Beyond Belief demo - 1993
Live In Perfect Deformity demo - 1993
Split with Acid Death - 1993
Split with Antropomorfia, Fermento, Sacrophobia, and Spontaneous Combustion - 1993
Carnivoracity - 1995
Carnivoracity EP - 1995
Eminence In Putresence - 1996
Cybergore - 1998
Seven Years Of Decay - 1999
Stabwound Orgasm - 1999
Bloodcovered EP - 2001
Yearning For The Grotesque - 2003
Goresplattered Suicide - 2005
Reanimations - 2006