Self Released/ Feb. 2003
5 songs : 16 mins 24
- Human Parasite
- Shed Of Blood
- Beyond The Sun
- The Beast Lord
- Tonight
Let’s continue ‘our globe trottour’ with Yargla in South America and after Impetus Malignum from Brasil and Sick Porky from Argentina, here we are in Mexico with Disgust: a death metal band that i knew once again thanks to Myspace.
This bands plays a very various death metal, not as fast as Speedy Gonzales but nevertheless as catchy as fuck and not monotonous for a second. This demo that i have been sent by their guitar player is not a new one as they released it in February 2003 before a break and their style has evolved a bit since. But let’s deal with what we have here, total death metal mixed with some other styles.
With the first track (eponymous of this demo) “Human Parasite”, the first feeling i have is to think about some less brutal Cannibal Corpse/Six Feet Under especially for the Chris Barnes voice like. Catchy riffs, binary rythm rather mid tempo, this song sounds like a mix between Six Feet Under and the french band Aiwass (previously reviewed in our pages). I am pretty sure that mister Regis Bassphematoire from Aiwass then would become a Disgust fan with this demo. ;)
“Shed of Blood” starts a bit more brutally and still so headbangable. Some guitar parts sound to me a bit Slayerlike and the voice still clones mister Barnes perfectly. I can easily imagine that more than a mexican lost his sombrero while headbanging on this song as more than a frenchman would lost his beret on it. Really good.
“Beyond The Sun” has a more heavy metal side. The whole is very melodic and sounds epic. There is an alternation of death and black metal vocals that remind me of Pleurisy (very good dutch melodic death metal band from the mid 90s).
“The Beast Lord” comes back to a way like “Shed of Blood” as to understand mid tempo death metal. I really like this one as it sounds a bit like a meeting between Chris Barnes and Deicide. The catchy melodies stay easily in mind , excellent track.
But i have to admit that the catchiest track is the one that ends this demo: “Tonight”. The riffs seem to have been heard hundreds of times before. It is as if I already listened to that song somewhere but i can’t remember exactly where and when. The whole is rather rock (I mean the melody), the vocals still Barnes like (nothing negative here) and to come back with Six Feet Under , this track seems to have been extracted from S.F.U.’s album Graveyard Classics.
I will end this review by telling you that if you want catchy songs, if you like songs that you always “sing in your head” all day long, if you like death metal without neverending blast beats, just simple but efficient, you sould have an ear on “Human Parasite”. The recent news about this band is that they are about to release an album called Crucifucked that includes a cover from Creedence Clearwater Revival “Up Around The Bends”... I am really impatient to hear this stuff. So don’t hesitate and contact this band who is currently looking for worldwide promotion:
http://www.myspace.com/disgustmetal
