Band:	Avulsed
Album:	Gorespattered Suicide
Style:	Brutal death metal
Release date:	January 2005

01. Gorespattered Suicide
02. Burnt But Not Carbonized
03. Filth Injected
04. Infernal Haemorrhoids
05. 4 N Sick
06. Harvesting The Blood
07. Let Me Taste Your Flesh
08. Hoax Therapy
09. Divine Wine
10. Protervia
11. Eat Foetal Mush
12. Ace Of Spades [Motörhead cover]

What can I say about a band like Avulsed, there are reviews to spare on the web and enough comments on zines for you to read in your mourning visits to the toilet; so now it's my turn to write a review, but I want to advise the readers first; no matter what anybody thinks or writes, you have to make a judgment by hearing the music not by saying "oh this dude said it's crap so I'll trust him"?so here we go.

Avulsed is one hell of a band to say the least, they've released a couple of good albums and (in my opinion) one masterpiece called "Yearning For The Grotesque". Then "Gorespattered Suicide" saw the light first in 2004 via Metal Age Productions and this year via American Line Productions (I received this last edition to review actually) with two "new" songs found only on their Re-Animations compilation. Is it better than their cult album "Yearning For The Grotesque"? No, it's just different; to begin with is way more brutal than their previous works and so the riffing is not as catchy as always (in a good way); I'll explain a little more ok?

This record is quite simple if you know what I mean; the general scheme comes from the Old School Death Metal minus prodigious guitar solos, so you'll get brutal music with catchy breakdowns and incendiary pauses and breakdowns all over the place. The structures are, as always, quite good; the whole album manages to ambush your attention so you won't get bored at all, in consequence the songwriting shows its varied and chaotic scales while Dave Rotten scares the crap out of you with his amazing growls, inhales and shrieks which, by the way, became more "mature" and hostile in this record. So more o less that's the general process of the great "Gorespattered Suicide".

There are enough goodies in this record to call it a great album; songs like "Let Me Taste Your Flesh", "Gorespattered Suicide" and "Protervia" will show you the catchy yet brutal side of Avulsed, then you'll understand the greatness of this band the minute you hear "4 N Sick" with its blasting and moshable progressions or "Infernal Haemorrhoids" showing the band's "fun" factor. Last but not least, you'll get the chance to both check one of the most interesting layouts I've seen and read their lyrics which, by the way, are quite humorous and original, sure it's gore oriented but approached with a different vibe.

All in all this is a fairly good album, though my favorite Avulsed song is still the humongous and monstrous Pale Red Blood but that's just a matter of tastes of course. I recommend you to get this one if you already have "Yearning For The Grotesque", in case you don't own the mentioned album, I strongly recommend you to buy both as "Gorespattered Suicide" will surround you with brutality, catchiness and really sickening music overall. After all, this IS the best Death Metal band I've heard from Spain, and believe me I've heard many bands from that country.

Best Tracks: "Gorespattered Suicide", "4 N Sick", "Divine Wine", "Eat Foetal Mush" (great track dedicated to Antonio Pardo and his label Foetal Mush)

Powerful release, a must for all the fans of the genre