Onset of Putfrefaction

Necrophagist | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 14, 2004)
• Original Release Date: 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Willowtip Records
• ASIN: B0000JML8K
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,413 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars hahahahahhahaha.a.a....., September 15, 2005

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Lord Chimp (Monkey World) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Onset of Putfrefaction (Audio CD)

_Onset of Putrefaction_, aside from having an AWESOME album title, is one of the most fun & intense death metal albums around. sure, it might be too fancy for the hard-core death metallers, and it's probably too growly and blastbeaty for the prog-metal crowd. But the ambiguity that is their distinguishing feature, apart from the over-the-top nature of the music. Stunning, sometimes viciously melodic shredding interpersed across madly complex time-signatures and mentally fractured and uber-heavy riffs. Such a cheesy description does not do it justice, but i would put this with classics from Cryptopsy and Death. If you like this, you should also check out Psyopus.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Something you gotta hear, June 11, 2006

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Peter Azello (San Jose, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Onset of Putfrefaction (Audio CD)

Immediately, you would never check out an artist like Necrophagist if you are a normal person. You would look at the name of the band, album and song names and write these guys off as a Carcass or Cannibal Corpse rip-off. But, then I would tell you that this entire album was entirely produced and recorded by the same man, and that man (if he qualifies as one; more like superhuman) is named Muhammed Suiçmez. He has quite a story. At 15, he began playing guitar, but he would have to overcome the obstacles of his strict parents who forbid him to play. He persevered this problem, and started writing his own stuff and formed Necrophagist. But, his band quit on him (the first of many instances), so he decided to record this album by himself. Not only did he record the guitar and bass parts, he produced it and programmed the drumming himself. Later, it was signed to Noise Solution Records. Some lineup changes still deterred Suiçmez, but he continued to tour and write his own material. He released the second full-length album, "Epitaph", in 2004. He now has a full band, but he remains the lead guitarist. They were eventually signed to Relapse, where they still remain. Necrophagist are now back on the road after a one-year hiatus because of Muhammed having an "unknown sickness".

But, what makes this so special? Well, the guitar playing is godlike. Muhammed was inspired by Ywngie Malmsteen's neo-classical guitar style, and he has implemented that into his solos. But, the thing is, he is no wannabe. These songs are extremely technical, with amazing guitar solos and complex song structure. It is hard to believe how this guy is actually doing this. I have seen live videos...he is insane. Another thing that amazes me is that he sings (or growls...whatever) while he is playing. I can't even touch the stuff he does when I play, yet he can do all that technically insane playing that involves full concentration and actually sing at the same. He is truly a god, and a good thing is that Necrophagist is starting to get very well known past the technical-death metal ring and into the spectrum of other listeners. As another reviewer stated, this may be a little too "fancy" for, maybe, the brutal death metal crowd or gore-grind/grindcore crowd. Not because it isn't brutal or anything, but long songs with many complex rhythms might seem a little too sophisticated compared to a band like Cannibal Corpse or Morbid Angel. But, hey, that's technical-death metal for you. If you want the crunchy stuff, look elsewhere. Necrophagist is all about laying back and soaking in the incredible guitar playing of this legend.

The album starts off with "Foul Body Autopsy". This short, 1:52 song is one of the coolest death songs I have heard. Immediately starting off with Suiçmez's amazing guttural growl (yes...he even make death metal vocals sound beautiful), it kicks off into a sick riff and doesn't hold back until the final second. The next two songs, "To Breathe In A Casket" and "Mutilate The Stillborn", are very complex, especially "To Breathe...", which has various breakdowns, and a very complex and technival solo to go along with it. "Mutilate The Stillborn" has another amazing solo and a great vocal performance by the man Suiçmez, especially at the end. The next song, "Intestinal Incubation", has barely any vocals and is really just another long guitar solo that never fails to impress. The next track, "Culinary Hyperversity", is probably one of my favorite songs on the album. "Extreme Unction" starts off with a sick bass solo and is followed by another batch of well-constructed guitar solos. To cap off this amazing masterpiece is, in my opinion, Necrophagist's best song, and that is "Fermented Offal Discharge". After a riff in the beginning and a great, memorable bass solo, this song consumes you until the last second. That caps off probably the best ever technical-death metal album that you will ever hear. If you do not own this and you call yourself a metalhead, click "Add To Cart" right now.

The reissue, which is the one for sale here on Amazon, has all new programmed drumming and two demos from the 1995 demo, simply titled "Necrophagist". These two songs are titled "Dismembered Self-Immolation" and "Pseudopathological Vivisection" (what a mouthful). Both songs do not sound like this Necrophagist. They are more straight up pure death metal than technical, but both are great and contain awesome guitar and drum work, of course. "Dismembered..." is the better of the two. This is worth picking up again if you owned the album beforehand for the demo's, but they also worked with the drumming a little bit to not make it sound so...uh...programmed. Any way, you have to pick this up. The lyrics are more like Carcass, and were written by Suiçmez when he was in his mid-teens'. This is something that anybody who loves death metal or who wants to study Suiçmez's guitar playing should definitely look into. Their 2004 release, "Epitaph" is also outstanding, but cannot match the overall destruction unleashed in this record.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If Mozart Was A Death Metal Artist, June 10, 2006

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Orphan of Sickness (253) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Onset of Putfrefaction (Audio CD)

He definitely would have made this CD. By looking at the song titles at first, you'll think it's a goregrind CD with shoddy production and undecipherable growls. Nope, none of that here. What you do get is talented technical guitar melodies and a progressive feel as well. This is a work of art. Don't miss. And once again, don't let titles like "Intestinal Incubation" and "Fermented Offal Discharge" throw you off. This isn't Last Days of Humanity or Rompreprop, people, this is Necrophagist.