Review by illusionist for Gorguts - Considered Dead (1991)

Nasty, grimy, rotten early 90s death metal that sounds like a formless beast emerging from the depths of a swamp.

Ah, the Gorguts debut. The riffs on this album will turn your brain to slush with just how purely evil they sound. Not to mention the classic cover art. Yet I also love this album because Gorguts did something that very few other bands in the genre did at this point: Show that you could play death metal with a touch of restraint and creativity that actually adds to the uncanny atmosphere without compromising your heaviness. They would obviously expand on this idea in their later albums.

The vaguely folky intro begins the album on an eerie note and it doesn't let up from there. I love the bass and the drumming on "Disincarnated", which immediately jumps out as a standout track. Gorguts saves the rest of the album's highlights for the end. The instrumental song "Waste of Mortality" is one of the best death metal instrumentals I know of. "Haemetological Allergy" and "Inoculated Life" -- the finale two tracks -- are the best on the album. If you close your eyes and listen to Track 9, the music will give you the sensation of ants crawling up your body.  

Fucking evil, man. Gorguts.