Band:	Downthroat
Album:	Verminate
Style:	Brutal death metal
Release date:	2002

01. Verminate
02. I See Blood
03. Frigid Grandma
04. Dying In Love
05. Open Chest With Fruit Salad
06. Windfall
07. Convulse Gastric Haemorrhage With Eggs
08. To Eve The Art Of Gore
09. Blood, Guts And Ice Cream
10. Life Is Beautiful
11. Mom And Dad...
12. Face No More
13. Uncontrollable Discharge Of Blood And Pus

You may have noticed that this album is not rated. There is a simple reason to this: Downthroat plays grindcore, and this is in my opinion a very particular style, that has a very specific audience, to which I don't belong, so please excuse me but I wouldn't be honest if I tried to rate something I don't know. Consequently, I will only give my appreciation about the death metal passages.
These passages are only instrumental, as the vocals always remain traditional, with lots of screams and guttural, abyssal and deep growlings. The riffs, when they are not pure grind, manage to be somewhat catchy, and you surprise yourself furiously headbanging during a break. The music sometimes even becomes thrashy, like what Sepultura could have done on 'Arise'.
For the rest, well, this is nothing very original for a grindcore band, with sexual, gore or stupidly funny lyrics, at least I imagine when I read the titles of the tracks ['Frigid Grandma', 'Mom and Dead', 'Uncontrollable discharge of blood and pus']. The music is a long series of the uncontrollable accelerations inherent to this style, sometimes broken by a calmer passage.
One thing has surprised me well: the production. It is unusually clear for that kind of band, and the band can congratulate the producer to have given them a death metal sound.
In conclusion, Verminate is certainly not going to become the new reference in the domain of grind/death, but I guess that for the fans, it is a good expedient while waiting something better.