Dead Infection - Surgical Disembowelment (1993)^{Release ID: 13068}

Dead Infection play a rather “slow” strain of Goregrind, having plenty of Death Metal groove and a rhythm section doing much more than constant blast beats. The slower parts of the songs create a great dynamic between the more typical Goregrind blasting, and makes this album much less one dimensional than most Grind of the time. The riffs aren’t crazy, but again are stronger than typical Grind genres, where noise tends to overtake real riffing.

Make no doubt about it, the material on Surgical Disembowelment is great, but it’s not without flaws. The production, in my opinion, manages to be worse than their EP from the previous year, quite muddy and muffled. It’s far from unlistenable, but it definitely detracts from the music for this reviewer. The vocals are quite poor as well, unintelligible and guttural, they act as another bass element to the music. The lyrics are also generic Goregrind fare, random imagery of gross anatomical destruction.

Strong considering where Grindcore was as a genre in 1993, but Dead Infection themselves did better on their prior EP in my opinion.