Right from the first track, it’s obvious their style is firmly rooted in the Cannibal Corpse-Deicide realm of the death metal world.  Chunky riffs, driving double bass, and semi-decipherable death growls from long time vocalist Niels Adams.  You get a ripping, Morbid Angel style solo almost a minute into opener “Only Taste for Decay”, but overall the first three tracks are pretty much copy and paste death metal fare.  It’s not until the fourth track, “Dismember the Transgender”, with its massive Kataklysm-esque opening groove, where the band starts to open up a little bit.  You get some killer blasts and raging double bass from drummer Michiel van der Plicht, which all comes together for easily the best song on the whole album.  “Under the Patio” and the title track follow in the same frantic style and intensity.

The rest of the songs tend to kind of run together, with the exception of new guitarists Martijn Moes and Mike Ferguson, who trade off some really nice solos and blend a nice technical lean to the album.  Outside of that, the vocal style tends to get stale, as do the lyrics which center on the (way over-used) subject of rape and violence against women.

This is overall just a pretty average death metal album, and nothing that I feel will put this band back on the map.  I personally preferred the more brutal style of Descendants, but there are likely plenty out there who will feel different.  Give it a listen and judge for yourself.

Dutch death metal hellions PROSTITUTE DISFIGUREMENT are pleased to join Willowtip Records’ stable of sonic chaos for the release of their upcoming new studio offering. Lovingly titled From Crotch To Crown, the long-awaited follow-up to 2008’s deviant Descendants Of Depravity full-length promises to deliver the band’s sickest, most violently aggressive and brutal material to date!

Comments team PROSTITUTE DISFIGUREMENT in a collective statement: “We’re stoked to have joined the Willowtip family because of their reputation in working with some of the purest and unique bands out there and we look forward to sickening this world together. So far, the cooperation between us is great and we look forward to working with them. From Crotch To Crown is a mix of old-school mayhem and modern, bonecrushing, technical riffing with horrifying vocals spewed from the minds of the most sick and evil beings in history!”

Further details, including official release dates, to be divulged in the coming weeks. You have been warned.