AVULSED Yearning For The Grotesque CD (2002)

Spain is not the first country that comes to mind when you think of truly ugly death metal. Avulsed made sure that changed. Active out of Madrid since the early nineties, they built a reputation on gore-obsessed brutality that kept solid company with the American goregrind and brutal death scenes without ever being a pale imitation of either.

Yearning for the Grotesque is a compilation pulling together demos, rehearsals, and early recordings, which makes it both a historical document and a fairly relentless listening experience depending on your tolerance for exactly that kind of rawness. If you're the sort of person who cross-references Mortician and Exhumed in the same breath, this is the kind of ugly artifact that belongs in your collection. Death metal with a genuine underground pedigree, dug up and repackaged for those who go looking.

CD. 2002 compilation. Spain.

Fans of: Mortician, Lividity, Impaled, Exhumed, Deeds of Flesh