### Visceral Throne: Omnipotent asperity

#### 22/11/12 || The Duff

The first thing that hit me on this record was the production. You know albums that start with a really tinny production, with one riff, then come in meated out full-force? With this, the filled-out production never comes – the production is absurdly light for brutal death metal.

This record sounds scooped, with practically no low-end, and the drums quite horrific; I’m not going to say “St. Anger” snare, but it’s strangely close – I never thought I’d hear such a thing on a record again after all the bad publicity of said album (and who to distribute it better than GD). The drums are speedboat, quantized (?) quite insanely, and the guitars have been compressed like bare titties offered a man who’s just spent ten years on a remote island, so don’t expect anything particularly organic.

Yes, nothing organic. I otherwise have no clue as to what words I’m using nor the order they are in.

That out of the way, Visceral Throne play some really cool brutal death metal, like a cross between Disgorge and Septycal Gorge. And a band you might be unfamiliar with called Gorge. And that other brutal death metal band from Texas, known as George. Oh man, my penis is spurting urine all over my desk I’m laughing so hard.

Yeah, so it’s the full on broot-nature of Disgorge, straightforward nature of Deeds of Flesh with the new-age, more digestible aesthetic of bands like Septycal Gorge, tech death bands with a bit of Suffo breakdown and a bit of trendy slam and, to top it all off (and make Omnipotent Asperity a bit more striking an outfit), atmospherics, derivatives of Gorguts and Immolation, and solos.

I don’t think I’ve heard lead guitars on a brutal death metal record before with the exception of Suffocation and Defeated Sanity’s “Prelude to the Tragedy”. But we’re not talking Hobbs chaos here but rather smoothly-phrased, which is definitely against the grain as much as I know. Welcome, real cool, a touch of la nouvelle, han-hee-han.

So yeah, the only really bad thing about this record is the production. A confident slab of brutal death metal all told.

- Information
- Released: 2012
- Label: Brutal Bands
- Website: Visceral Throne MySpace
- Band
- Dylan Cox: vocals
- Justin Smith: guitars
- Bills Swills: bass
- Andrew Sutton: drums

- Tracklist
- 01. The Amaranthine
- 02. Omnipotent Asperity
- 03. Epitaph
- 04. Transcending Carnality
- 05. Conceptual Metamorphosis
- 06. Inherent Spiral of the Human Continuum
- 07. Ignorant Persistence
- 08. Unknown