Review: Ravaged Spleen Outburst – The Church of Anemia

Style: Brutal Slam/Death (harsh vocals)
Review by: Sam
Country: Serbia
Release date: 16-11-2018

NOTE: This album was originally included in the November 2018 issue of The Progressive Subway

This is the debut album of u/welyyt, a friend of mine of Reddit. He asked me my opinion of it a while ago, but I told him I saved it for November reviews instead, since there were enough prog influences.
If you are a prog head first and value clean production, stay far far away from this. He told me he was figuring out the production on the fly, and it’s certainly noticeable, to say in the least. This record is ugly, ugly as the depths of Donald Trump’s twitter account. On the virtue of welyyt’s demonic, incomprehensible guttural vocals and the muffled, but very weighty guitars, this sounds like it came straight out of a cavern. The drums (which are programmed) also do not come anywhere close to sounding good. Only thing that is clearly audible would be the mid and high-end of the guitars, which means you can still properly distinguish the riffs.

But at the same time that same all this ugliness is the record’s primary strength. Like I mentioned before, the vocals are hellishly brutal. Though technically they could certainly use some work, I like how they function in the music. A caveman doesn’t take singing classes either lol. The riffs are also ugly as hell, but you can properly headbang to them. The record is littered with slam breakdowns and there are also some Gothernburg stylings to be found. What’s jarring though, is the seemingly random placement of everything. Every song if filled with ideas, but the cohesion between them is definitely lacking.

This record is decent for if you need something brutal with riffs and have low production standards, but in any other case stay far away from this.

Recommended tracks: Anointing of the Sick
Recommended for fans of: I really have no idea.
Final verdict: 4.5/10

Related links: Bandcamp | Spotify | Metal-Archives page

Label: Independent

Ravaged Spleen Outburst is:
– A.D (All Instruments)