Deliquesce (to liquefy during decomposition), is an Australian brutal/tech death project from Disentomb’s Adrian Cappelletti. He’s joined by vocalist James Cooper (ex-Incarnate), bassist Armando Wall and American session drummer Lyle Cooper (Mithridatum, Humanity Is A Cancer).

And it’s a bit different from the hulking, brutal death metal of Disentomb, as Deliquesce is even more technical and bat shit crazy. Basically, if you took Suffocation’s early work (especially Cooper’s spot on Frank Mullen-isms) and blended with the skronky, bonkers brutality of Cryptopsy’s Whisper Supremacy, Defeated Sanity’s low end and even some Cephalic Carnage insanity and some Atheist/Pestilence choppy bass lines, which Wall delivers expertly, you’d come sort of close to the total mind-fuckery of tech brutality on Saviour/Enslaver.

Like a lot of tech death, this isn’t an easy listen. Nor is it the more clinical, wispy tech death like say, Obscura. The 10 song 41 minute assault is unhinged, unpredictable and unstable. But buried within the sheer landslide of riffs are tons of great, if short-lived moments, namely some of the riffs, grooves and leads that imbue the heavy squealing, Suffocation vibe; notably “Compound Dysphoria” (where Devin Swank of Sanguisugabogg helps out), “Mark of Hatred” Suffocation sounding song titled “Erroneous Cruelty” and closer “Adapt to Anguish”.

But sometimes, things are a little too unhinged and chaotic even for me, such as parts of “Symbiotic Felonious Carnage”, “Corruption of Fauna”, “Plein Air Crypts”, but boy, is the skill on display impressive regardless.

Some really good, brutal/tech/slam death metal albums are releasing this summer: Enragement’s Extinguish All Existence, Beheaded’s Ghadam, Cytolysis’s Surge of Cruelty, and Cordyceps’s Hell Inside. All are worth your time, but Saviour/Enslaver is at the top of that list.

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