### Disgorge: Paralells of infinite torture

#### 05/01/12 || The Duff

I think I’ll be atoning for my Disgorge “Consume the Forsaken” review even long after the Internet has imploded and we have to masturbate the good ol’ fashioned way – thinking about boobs without maggots crawling through them is a tough fucken thing to do for Cannibal Corpse fans, though, but suffice to say “Consume the Forsaken” is a brutal death metal masterpiece that should be the first album on the list of anyone trying to break into the sub-genre.

Maybe one day I’ll launch my own site called theduff-ragsonAIDS.net, and publish a re-write as my first review; maybe I’ll just praise every other Disgorge effort in the hopes I’ll be absolved, saving my ultimate splooge for the soon to be released effort that will undeniably set fans’ panties in a bunch and cause hissie fits. Like this record did when it was released, which is nuts. Nuts like the things twisted in the panties. All jokes aside, we all have doubts about Disgorge sans Diego, but there appears to be a recent surge of hatred towards drummer Myers who has always been the backbone to exceptionally complicated, uncompromising and mouth-watering riffs because, let’s face it, no other motherfucker could keep up with the rapid-paced shifts between groove, blasts and fills. Groove, blast and fill – like what Disgorge do to your girlfriend.

I am jamming them insults in your mouth today, huh..?

“Parallels of Infinite Torture” is eight new tracks, an interim atmospheric piece and a re-recorded version of “Atonement” off the band’s debut “Cranial Impalement”, an album which I haven’t heard. Where “She Lay Gutted” was a raw, brutal metal blueprint, “Consume the Forsaken” the same style simply stripped, jumbled and rounded to perfection and definitely the pinnacle of the Deeds/Suffo approach to BDM, “PoIT” is like the mastery of arrangement of “Consume the Forsaken” but with a few number of what I would deem filler riffs when compared to the best the album has to offer; not bad by a long stretch, simply a lot more straight-forward, the expected BDM-standard to complete all available space and shaping the tracks into lengthier onslaughts maybe for fear of repeating themselves when past records had tracks that rarely went beyond the 3 minute mark.

As with many of my favourite death metal records, “Parallels of Infinite Torture” starts off slow, despairing and intimidating (with oddly enough the same riff “Consume the Forsaken” closed on); much like “Chapters of Repugnance”, “Everything is Fire” and “Lucid Interval”, “Parallels of Infinite Torture” builds up an atmosphere before throwing you into a tumultuous flurry of jagged rhythms, high-grade tech and grinding breakdowns – as with past records, it will take numerous sit-downs to fully digest, this either the album’s biggest hindrance or greatest pay-off; I’m not saying you don’t have the patience, but it’s insane how much devotion it takes to fully absorb a Disgorge album in order to reap its full potential.

Despite “Parallels…” not being the finest Disgorge record, and the fact it can be a whole lot to sift through given the wrong state of mind, I still reckon the band went out in a blaze of glory. Now with a new bass player and Erik Lindmark of Deeds of Flesh covering Diego’s role, the future looks uncertain seeing as this band sure as shit overtook the masters what with recent Deeds albums like “Ashes” and “Crown of Souls” not being the most exciting; it can’t be argued though (well, it can obviously according to über-fans), this line-up of the band shall remain timeless as pretty much undisputed champions of the sub-genre – an highly recommended brutal death metal album that takes no prisoners and set the stage for those wanting to indulge in such a style with the ambition of classic Suffocation.

- Information
- Released: 2005
- Label: Crash Music, Inc.
- Website: Disgorge MySpace
- Band
- Ed Talorda: guitars
- Diego Sanchez: guitars
- Ben Marlin: bass
- Ricky Myers: drums
- Levi Fuselier: vocals

- Tracklist
- 01. Revealed in Obscurity
- 02. Enthroned Abominations
- 03. Atonement
- 04. Abhorrent Desecration of Thee Iniquity
- 05. Forgotten Scriptures
- 06. Descending Upon Convulsive Devourment
- 07. Condemned to Sufferance
- 08. Parallels of Infinite Torture
- 09. Asphyxiation of Thee Oppressed
- 10. Ominous Sigils of Ungodly Ruin