ALBUM REVIEW: Visions Of Disfigurement – ​​​​Vile Mutation

When done correctly, slam metal can be a lot of fun.

Animalistic singing that sounds inhuman; random but recognizable memes and clips; and an overarching mood that evokes feelings of categorical annihilation.

Visions of disfigurement Capture all that and more. Your self-released long player Horrible mutation offers the precision of large label production. It’s slam with expendable instruments played surgically and synchronously.

If the vocals were left out for long stretches of the record, it could even come across as tame (in a positive sense). There is a methodology and a guiding vision to what the band intends to do.

You get CJ out of GTA: San Andreas Opens the record with: “Oh shit, here we go again.” You get The rockis electrifying “If you smell” Line. If that doesn’t leave you wanting more, that’s your loss.

The drumming (both production and technique) is exquisite. “Secreted And Eated” is a prime example, albeit one that painfully sacrifices grammar for rhyme. The drums have range and symmetry.

“Encrackified Dysfucketomy Of Putrid Gash” features harsh, jangly riffs for an overall weighty, dense affair. The strings might as well be the ropes surrounding a ring. “Absence Of Remorse” is characterized by the fact that its throat sounds are sometimes used as a rhythm instrument. Even underneath there are silky-smooth harmonies. On a slam track. Imagine that.

Add to this projectile “blegh”s and a very… strange title called “Mo-Lestation Mo Problems” and Horrible mutation is quite an experience.

Visions Of Disfigurement are the breakthrough here. It’s slam, but for fans of music and the grotesqueness that subgenre brings with it.

Enjoy your meal, crazy people.

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8/10
MATT COOK
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