Cerebral Hemorrhage and the album Exempting Reality is not something new. The album was made back in 2001, this is a re-issue and limited to 500 copies. Cerebral Hemorrhage play a kind of US death metal (distortion, free style riffs and scream). But place this band in one genre doesn't really work. It's old school, brutal and almost a guttural growl voice. The fans of this genre are very dedicated, so I'm not surprised over a re-issue. The skills that a band like this have, are on another level.

The first track is "Beaten and Dismembered", the sound is far from perfection, just as it should be. Furious drums, heavy bass, and yes, of course distortion on the guitars. But it's extremely well done.

Next track "Abusive Power" are the longest track on the album, opens up with the same aggressive style as the first. Some people describe this as pure chaos, a wall of noise, well, it could not be more wrong. The drum patterns are extremely fast, but this guy Tom Kivatinos has extreme skills, small changes, and sometime even change the drum patterns, but keep the time signature is skills. And the breakdowns gives space for the more clean guitars, there is Jazz Fusion in the music, and they handle it great. "Remnants of the Final Solution" start heavy, a bit evil. But it changes, and we actually have fast passage of blast beats and so much more.....and then fades out into a jazz passages, this track stands out. "Null and Void" is a short track, but the band uses the whole artillery here. If this album did come out today, it would go as technical death metal. "Exempting Reality" has something haunted over it, a heavy song, with heavy metal influences. "Deranged Perception" feels, in a way, like part two of "Exempting Reality" but there are more going on in "Deranged Perception" and this track is, for me, the strongest on the album.

"Resulting in Homicide" is the last track on the album, and we get another lesson in just awesome musicianship. Cerebral Hemorrhage did never get as much attention as, Suffocation or Cryptopsy. If you are a fan of those bands, or the genre overall, I recommend this band. Sure, it takes some time to get into the speed, all rhythm changes and hear everything. But Death metal, has overall very good musicians, and of course they push the limits.