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AVULSED
Nullo: The Pleasure of
Self-Mutilation (Ibex Moon)

01. Breaking
Hymens
02. Killing After Death
03. Maggotfilled
04.
Voracious Backpacker
05. Nullo (The Pleasure of
Self-Mutilation)
06. Nazino (Cannibal Hell)
07. Fair
Flesh Obsession
08. Penectomia
09. Infernal Haemorrhoids
(Pt. 2)
10. Chestblood
11. She's Hot Tonight (In My
Oven)
12. River Runs Red
13. Foetal Consolation
14.
Unconscious Pleasure (2006 Re-Dissection)
15.
Piranha
16. I Wanna Be Somebody
17. Mental Misery

When you've been in a band
for two decades, you're either pushing forty or past it, and
you still feel the need to release a sequel to a song called
"Infernal Haemorrhoids", the world has no right to
expect major progression or mellowing out from you. Dave
Rotten has been fronting Spain's extreme death metal
gore-gurglers AVULSED since 1991, and with new rancid
hunk of meat "Nullo: The Pleasure of Self-Mutilation",
he and the band definitely stick with what's made them
renowned in the bowels of the underground for so
long.

This is brutal, unforgiving death metal
influenced by the American old school, with low, guttural,
burping vocals, fast no-frills riffing and flaying, organic
blast beats. Unlike many of their long-dormant or creatively
stagnant contemporaries, though, AVULSED actually cough
up parts that could be recognized as choruses, and they seed
their punishing assaults with occasional hooks and flourishes
of midtempo groove (most decidedly not of a hardcore breakdown
variety) to give their songs a little dramatic flair.
Expressive solos like the short-but-sweet bit at 2:40 of
"Maggotfilled", and insidious little melodies like the
one running through the chorus of the title track, really open
things up, and prevent monotony from taking over.

It's
definitely not innovative, and you won't find any surprises on
"Nullo", although consistent songwriting and attention
to detail in the realm of low-budget gore-metal could
themselves be considered surprising. The best thing about
AVULSED is that they've managed to mature
without progressing — that sounds like I'm slamming
them, but I'm not. They've evolved as players, and their
arrangements and ideas are clearly the product of seasoned
veterans with some solid death metal history behind them — but
they're still doing it all in service to the same bloodsoaked
atavistic muse that Dave Rotten worshiped twenty years
ago. If AVULSED haven't turned into a rock and roll
band by now, or gone off on any hardcore or prog tangents, it
seems safe to say that they plan to carry the torch for
undiluted death metal for life, with ever sharpening focus and
skill.

"Nullo"'s eleven tracks are augmented on
this US release by six bonus cuts, taken from 2006's
"Reanimations" import. While a grinding gore romp
through W.A.S.P. standard "I Wanna Be Somebody"
is hard to take as anything but comedy, their covers of
EXODUS classic "Piranha" and GOREFEST's
"Mental Misery" are pretty fucking wicked, and make an
already recommended death metal album even more potent.

- Keith Bergman

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COMMENT | '"Infernal
Haemorrhoids"'
posted by
: And
Then There Were None
12/28/2009 1:34:50 AM
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part
2, no less.

gotta love that.

cheers.

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COMMENT | 'nothing
has changed'
posted by :
jbutcher
12/28/2009
6:07:20 AM
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these
guys still putting out good shit

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COMMENT | #
posted by : raymon
12/28/2009
12:19:06 PM
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Wow,
a grind/gorecore record gets a high rating? Really?

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COMMENT | 'Cool,'
posted by : MetalTimJ
12/28/2009
1:26:15 PM
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like
the covers on the album too.

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posted by : Nills50
12/29/2009
10:23:27 PM
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poop

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COMMENT | 'Awesome
cd'
posted by :
AlienZombie
12/29/2009
10:56:27 PM
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She's
hot tonight (in my oven) is a great song. This and Stabwound orgasm
are their best albums, imo.

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COMMENT | 'whoa'
posted by : mattfca
12/30/2009
4:29:08 PM
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this
album annihilates. i love maggotfilled. 9/10 for me

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COMMENT | 'This
album...'
posted by :
-gODGRINDER-
12/31/2009
2:42:17 PM
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...makes me smile.

Solid 7.5/10.

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posted by : slayerman
1/1/2010
7:54:34 PM
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Always think highly of Avulsed. The album NULLO is a
solid death metal release with an amazing production. A Good buy.

9 for me.

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