### Dying Fetus: Descend into depravity

#### 30/10/09 || InquisitorGeneralis

With this here shitbag review I myself make a return descent into the depravity that is being a staff member here on the unholiest website this side of North Sea. Sorry for being AWOL all summer dominators, I was busy returning to a regular sex-life and had to adjust to not sitting in front of a computer all day…hooray summer vacation! Now I am back to moles… I mean teaching high-school children and my computer, like my exposed flesh ruler, is out in the open and inches away from my twitching hands!

Well cockmunchers I’m back and bring a big ole’load of dead babies with me! It is no secret I am a Fetus fanboy but my thoughts on 2006’s War of Attrition speak for themselves: good but not great, enjoyable but uninspired, salty but not sweet. Get the point? Let me try to describe my drug-clouded thoughts in a different way. “War of Attrition” had all the good stuff we love about metal albums: blastly mcblasts, shredding riffs, and tough-guy breakdowns. However, the arrangements and flow of the songs seemed rushed and hodgepodge.

I mean filet mignon, peanut butter, marijuana, bourbon, and potato chips are all fucken awesome but put them together in a burrito and they will taste as terrible as a Tijuana whore’s snatchjuice after a long, penetrating evening with the the unwashed and highly infected staff of Global Domination (K first, then a penis pincushion assault by the rest of the team is how that shit would go down, just in case you were wondering). Point of this ridiculous rant and metaphor: just because the parts are good does not mean the combination is a guaranteed success.

Not so on “Descend into Depravity”. Gone are the turbulent line-up changes and Teh Fetus is currently a well-oiled three man metal machine. The everpresent John Gallagher (who was piss fucken drunk and guzzling Scope when I met him after a solid performance on the Summer Slaughter tour) really brings some quality, grindy riffs to the table this time: nothing new or groundbreaking for him but his guitar work is solid, especially on Fetus’ patented core-influenced breakdowns. A few solos even dot the horizon. Sean Beasley holds down the bass and the higher-pitched scream vocals while Trey Williams does a fine job behind kit. Production-wise the album sounds tight, again much improved from “War of Attrition”.

My favorite Fetus drumming is still Eric Sayenga’s asswhoopery on “Stop at Nothing” but Trey has the chops for sure. Matter of fact, he kind of holds back compared to previous Fetus releases and that is a welcome change…but fear not! The blasts, doublebass, and other metaltastic drumming stalwarts are there in full. I enjoy Trey’s performance more and more with each spin…actually I enjoy the entirety of “Descend in Depravity” more and more with each spin. Wait, wait, incoming revelation…

“Descend into Depravity” kicks all kinds of ass and is the best dead baby to be spewed from the womb since “Destroy the Opposition”

Big words I know but I tell ya Erecting Penis have really brought the heat this time around. The title track, “Ethos of coercion”, ‘Shepard’s commandment”, and “Your treachery will die with you” stand up to any of the best cuts from previous releases. “Ethos…” especially fucken owns with some killer time changes and a nice solo from Johnny Boy G. A few times on “Descend in Depravity” the three amigos get a little Morbid Angelesque and slow it down a bit…a very welcome addition to the already solidified Fetus-formula for deathgrind sweetness. No songs on here come even close to a letdown. Hell, many even feature sections longer than fifteen seconds with no fucken vocals. Wow, now that is a big step in the right direction: just let rip on the instruments fellas, you fucks certainly have the skill.

The Fetus is back and in a serious way. “Descend into Depravity” really delivers quality songs one after another. While the Fetus break no new ground, they do change things up just enough to keep things interesting. Pick this one up immediately Internet cockslaves, ye shall not be disappointed.

One bad thing though, the cover is gay as all hell…but who really gives a shit the album dominates.

- Info
- Released: 2009
- Label: Relapse
- Website: www.dyingfetus.com
- Band
- John Gallager: vocals, guitars
- Sean Beasley: bass, vocals
- Trey Williams: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. Your Treachery Will Die With You
- 02. Shepherd’s Commandment
- 03. Hopeless Insurrection
- 04. Conceived Into Enslavement
- 05. Atrocious By Nature
- 06. Descend Into Depravity
- 07. At What Expense
- 08. Ethos Of Coercion