Emetic Imprecations

Vomitrot

Sweden’s Vomitrot delivers a grotesque symphony with their 2024 release "Emetic Imprecations", an album steeped in the filth and grime of death/doom metal. Vomitrot doesn’t just dabble in the macabre; they revel in it, conjuring a deeply visceral experience that bathes the listener in waves of suffocating riffs and vomitous gutturals. This LP is a masterclass in death metal’s most primal instincts, merging the grinding weight of doom with the frenetic aggression of death metal. With six tracks, "Emetic Imprecations" leaves a lasting impression as a standout record that refuses to compromise on its disgusting, yet enthralling sound.
October 29, 2024

The album opens with “Envomited,” an ominous plunge into the album’s vile depths. Slow, crushing guitars serve as the backbone of this track, dragging the listener through a quagmire of filthy riffs. The vocals immediately stand out, with gutturals that sound less like human articulation and more like a primal regurgitation of bile. This track serves as a grim introduction, setting the tone for the album's grotesque atmosphere with its lumbering pace and cavernous sound. The sheer weight of the song evokes an almost suffocating sense of dread, pulling the listener into the dark underbelly of what Emetic Imprecations has to offer.

“Emetophilic Cro-Magnon” continues the descent into madness, offering a relentless barrage of guttural vocals and dense, sludgy riffs.This track slows things down to an unbearable crawl, leaning fully into the doom side of death/doom. The track embodies the primal energy hinted at in its title, a homage to primitive violence. There’s something almost ritualistic in the way the song unfolds, with its pounding drums and oppressive guitar work evoking the image of some ancient, blood-drenched ceremony. The doom-laden passages crawl like festering wounds, while the faster sections showcase Vomitrot’s talent for combining bleak atmosphere with crushing brutality.

Things get even nastier with “Odious Fetid Aberrations.” Every note feels drenched in rot, every riff decaying under the weight of its own filth. The music here evokes aberrant forms and monstrous deformities, perfectly matching the suffocating, almost nauseating tone of the music. Vomitrot's ability to craft atmosphere through such simplicity is impressive—this song doesn’t rely on speed or technicality but instead builds tension through sheer sonic oppression. It’s a track that lingers in the listener’s mind long after it’s over, like the stench of something long dead.

“Heinous Sulphuric Phlegm” injects a bit more urgency into the album, with riffs that move between thick, slow crawls and bursts of death metal ferocity. The drumming here is particularly impressive, keeping things grounded while the guitars swirl in chaos. The vocals are as revolting as ever, spewing forth imagery of toxic fluids and sulfuric decay. There’s a certain satisfaction in how the song embraces its repulsiveness, diving headfirst into themes that most bands would shy away from. Vomitrot makes no such concessions, crafting a song that feels equally disgusting and invigorating.

Closing out this segment of the album is “Gomorrahian Excrement,” a track that showcases Vomitrot’s ability to balance atmosphere and aggression. The doom-laden sections feel particularly heavy here, almost oppressive in their weight, before exploding into furious death metal assaults. The guttural vocals sound even more depraved than before, as if the very essence of decay is being spat through the microphone. The imagery conjured in the lyrics speaks of biblical filth and desecration, tying the album's grotesque themes together in a fittingly foul conclusion.

"Emetic Imprecations" stands as a testament to "Vomitrot’s" mastery of the death/doom hybrid, a record that never shies away from the grotesque and the abhorrent. It’s an album that celebrates its filth, revels in its depravity, and delivers one of the most visceral listening experiences in recent memory. Vomitrot has found a way to transform disgust into art, creating an album that is as repulsive as it is captivating.

7 / 10

Good

Songwriting

8

Musicianship

8

Memorability

5

Production

5
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"Emetic Imprecations" Track-listing:

1. Envomited
2. Emetophilic Cro-Magnon
3. Odious Fetid Aberrations
4. Heinous Sulphuric Phlegm
5. Gomorrahian Excrement
6. Vomitous Execrations

Vomitrot Lineup:

Cave Belcher - Drums
Rotted Vomitor - Guitars, Vocals
Vomitroth - Vocals, Bass

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