Brutal Death Metal is one of the most loved subgenres of Death Metal, due to its emphasis on heaviness, speed, and explicit content.  A few bands such as CANNIBAL CORPSE and SUFFOCATION are considered forerunners of brutal death metal.  However, while those bands are American, CREPITATION is a similar band that hails from the United Kingdom.  Since their formation in 2005, the band has gone through many lineup changes, all the while creating music centered around gory themes with a little bit of dark humor and parody.  Ten years after CREPITATION formed, the five-member group released their debut album "The Violence of the Slams," which received fairly positive reviews from critics.  Now they have announced an upcoming album titled "Monstrous Eruption of Impetuous Preposterosity" will be released in a couple of weeks, on June 23.  As I stated before, brutal death metal has emphasis on a few key elements like heaviness, speed, and gore.  In these fields, CREPITATION does not disappoint on their new record.

The first thing that stood out to me when listening to this album was the long made-up names of the songs, such as "Carcinogenital Space Hopper" and "Superkalifragelisticexpibabyshakeus."  I also noticed how some of the songs also started off with humorous audio samples, adding to the dark humor and parody that CREPITATION has become known for.  The first track of the album, "Carcinogenital Space Hopper," begins with someone saying that they need music to do drugs with, before the band's death metal actually kicks in.  For the first couple of tracks, Mark Pearce and Chris Butterworth's vocals are mostly low, guttural, and particularly unintelligible.  From "Methanated Propulsion of Gaseous Levitation" onwards, there's more variety in the vocals with more high-pitched screams.  However, the vocals still remain hard to comprehend.  On several tracks like "Bloated Festering Mass of Corpulent Immensity," the vocals almost sounded like pig snorts.  Although I didn't particularly enjoy the vocal work, I have nothing but praise for the band's guitar and drum skill.  The riffs of Ste Moses's guitars were beautifully complex, and they paired well with the various drumming techniques from Tripy Pijin.

Fans of brutal death metal-and CREPITATION fans as well-will find sufficient elements to appreciate from "Monstrous Eruption of Impetuous Preposterosity."  However, listeners should not expect to understand the lyrics of the band's tracks, as the vocals are too incomprehensible.  By that same token, the creative names of the album's songs speak for themselves, in terms of how gory and explicit CREPITATION can be.  We also can't ignore the production work of Vicious Instinct Records.  Their contribution to the record's making seems to further emphasize the heaviness and fast pace of the band's latest piece, which is what brutal death metal is all about at the end of the day.  In this field, "Monstrous Eruption of Impetuous Preposterosity" is nothing short of successful, even with its flaws.  This second album by CREPITATION comes out on June 23, so when that day comes, you can be the judge of it.