### Insision: Beneath the folds of flesh

#### 22/05/08 || The Duff

Insision are a Swedish death metal band that plays no-frills, very typical music to the sub-genre, except demand your attention because they excel in the art of writing kickass material. “Beneath the Folds of Flesh” is their debut album, and all I had to do was hear the opening minute of “World Impaled” to know that I had struck a winner – it’s not that you haven’t heard music like this from the originators, but when the early influencers begin to slip, it’s time for fresh blood to take the stand, something which Insision have done here in fine form.

If you’ve heard later Insision albums, don’t think this compares; there are similarities, but Insision ditched a whole lot of heaviness for a catchier variety of death metal with their latest two full lengths – “Beneath the Folds of Flesh” is still hook-ridden, but not at the expense of ripping your asshole wide open, reaching in and dragging your face out through the gaping wound. Although the band’s history of drummers is a little hazy, I think this was the only full-length Thomas Daun featured on, and I reckon he brought a very aggressive edge to Insision’s sound that would be reduced on later outputs. To be honest, I consider him to be one of death metal’s finest – a very inventive player who manages to bring a certain groove to even the most feral riffing.

Carl Birath has never sounded so guttural, which is really saying something, and due to the production, the bass is about as standout as it gets. Overall, the production is very dry, but offers an equal degree of clarity to everything being played (the drums have been awarded a light sound that seems to complement many death metal albums lacking the well-financed production jobs), which all converges to form a lot of brutal and catchy death metal not quite verging on the overly technical. The guitars crunch face into dust, with some awesome breakdowns, catchy, swingin’ death metal riffs (a nod to Morbid Angel’s “Dawn of the Angry” on “Impamiiz Graa”) and killer, vicious riffing onslaughts all mixed to a very satisfying twenty-something minutes.

You got your regular influences here, Morbid Angel, Suffocation and Cannibal Corpse to name the only three, but the brief length of the album combined with tight musicianship seems to make all the regular tricks of the trade just as deadly as they’ve ever been, even if one might think by this stage in death metal’s history they’d have been run into the ground – Insision, due to a couple of demos released prior and probably a solid degree of experience under their belts doing the underground touring circuit thing know how to play American, brutal death to a very high standard, and I would highly recommend this to the casual, jovial death listener among you.

9 albums that understand life is short out of 10.

- Information
- Released: 2002
- Label: Wicked World
- Website: www.insision.com
- Band
- Carl Birath: vocals
- Thomas Daun: drums
- Roger Johansson: guitars
- Toob Brynedal: guitars
- Daniel Ekeroth: bass

- Tracklist
- 01. World Impaled
- 02. Trapped Within
- 03. Sado God
- 04. Temple of Flesh
- 05. Rewind into Chaos
- 06. Impamiiz Graa
- 07. My Fever
- 08. Before My Altar
- 09. Ex Oblivione