I love gore. Not real gore, mind you; movie gore. The scene from Gates to Hell when the woman vomits her intestines, you know that sort of thing. Haemorrhage hail from beautiful Spain and they love gore as well, they also love Carcass and it’s evident on this five tracker.

It’s not just Carcass, though. There’s some heavy Mortician, Last Days of Humanity, and General Surgery hidden amidst the stomach-churning violence on display in their abattoir. Feast your ears on “Scalpel, Scissors…and Other Forensick Instruments” in true Necroticism – Descanting the Insalubrious fashion,n there’s a sample of a doctor and then the drums kick in, punctuating the dialog with killer double bass rolls. It’s a crushing opener with neck-slashing precision, and it’s followed like a musical freight train on fire by “Polyclinic Abattoirs.” Some sick vocals mirroring Jeff Walker’s cheese grater rasp and these riffs… oh my. This is carnage, musical serial killing that leaves you buried alive and gasping for air.

“Obstetric Phantom” has a Symphonies of Sickness vibe to it, gripping like an alligator in the middle of a death roll, this is pure bloody Death Metal. It smells of fresh bile on a hospital room floor.

Haemorrhage already has seven full-length albums under their bullet belts, The Amputation Sessions was their last release in 2023, and it was a demo with the last full-length being We Are the Gore from 201,7 so it’s been a minute since anyone’s heard from them. So now is the perfect time for them to bring their blood-soaked Death Metal back from the proverbial dead.

“Nomenclator Pathologicum” flies headfirst into your gut. A flurry of blasts gives way to a earth-moving Death and Roll banger. This is what it’s all about, sometimes it doesn’t have to be flashy to be heavy. This is a very meat and giblets album from these stalwarts of the Spanish Death Metal scene.

I have to give huge props to drummer Daviti; his beats are head crushing and I can’t go without mentioning Luisma-Guitars (lead), Vocals (backing) (1991-present), Lugubrious-  Vocals (lead) (1993-present), Ramón Checa – Bass, Vocals (backing) (1994-present), Guitars (rhythm) (1994), Ana Belen de Lopez-Guitars (rhythm) (1994-present), Daviti- Drums (2023-present). Talented motherfuckers for sure!

Thrown in for good measure is a savage cover of Dismember’s “Deathevokation” and it’s badass. They capture the brutality of the original while adding their own sadistic touches. Opera Medica makes me smile with sardonic glee, it’s a fist to the face slab of raging, skin-flaying Death Metal.

Do you orgasm blood when you hear Carcass or 200 Stab Wounds? Do you like Mortician? How about General Surgery? If so, you’ll gush oceans for Haemorrhage!

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