SPLIT REVIEW: Cadaveric Incubator / Undergang – Christmas Split

In the underground 2 Death Metal monstrosities were stirring and lurking, ready to spew forth a new gift in the form of a brand new track from each, to be presented on 7″ vinyl by Extremely Rotten Productions.

Cadaveric Incubator start us off with some jolly sampling before launching their brand of grinding Death Metal into life with buzzsaw riffing and equally filthy bass atop maniacal blasts and met with equally savage vocals. This ferocious bite like winter snow is as fetid and relentless as one could hope from this force of total carnage. Packing plenty of hooks for a festive headbang, this track is a meaty feast of decaying sounds with some revolting slow crawls through to the typical sway of disembowelling brutality. Raunchy, rotten and utterly reckless in all of its glory, this song has a huge amount of dynamics and shows that side a is not setting us up for some lame gimmick, just another quality release from the bitter north. In fact this is one of the coolest tracks from Cadaveric Incubator to date.

Undergang follow things up with elven sounding song quickly interrupted by those festering riffs and snappy drums we all know and love along with David’s signature gut-rupturing grunts. Again, it is clear that these veterans of viscera do not intend on launching anything less the puke-invoking heaviness here. Bulging guitars coat bloated drums in a sort of lurching groove that has those doomy tinges while staying driven and continually being deformed by snarling belches. This track is a gloriously grotesque abomination that shows the ichorous icons giving the gift of gore in all their splendid barbarity. Pounding, grinding, grooving and slaying all in their path, Undergang deliver a season of sickness and sadism.

Festive failure or wintery wickedness? 2 bands of such high quality doing an old school split 7″ can never be a bad thing. When adorned with some malformed festivity (courtesy of the superb and prolific David Mikkelsen, also of the latter band), it might put some off who could be concerned of a gimmick-rife EP. But fear not, these legions of lechery deliver excellent music and give us something stupefyingly savage for the holidays.