Nespithe

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Nespithe
Studio album by Demilich

Publication
(s)

1993

Label (s) Pavement Music

Genre (s)

Technical death metal

Title (number)

11

running time

39:03

occupation
  • Antti Boman: vocals , electric guitar

production

Tuomo Valtonen

Nespithe ( anagram for The Spine 'the vertebral column') is the first and only album by the technical death metal band Demilich , released in 1993 on Pavement Music . Due to the high demand, the album was re-released several times and was released again in 1996 via Repulse Records , 2004 via Necropolis Records and 2009 via Xtreem Music . The re-releases also included the 1991 demo The Four Instructive Tales ... of Decomposition as a bonus .

The band makes the complete album available for free download .

Emergence

The album was recorded in a studio in a harbor dock in Savonlinna, Finland . The album was produced by Tuomo Valtonen. The lyrics came from singer and guitarist Antti Boman, who also designed the logo on the cover. Boman did not use any effects during the recordings that could make his guttural singing appear even deeper and this was not edited afterwards.

At their farewell concert on July 22, 2006, the band played the entire album, among other things.

Track list

All songs were written by singer and guitarist Antti Boman.

  1. When the Sun Drank the Weight of Water - 3:43
  2. The Sixteenth Six-Tooth Son of Fourteen Four-Regional Dimensions (Still Unnamed) - 3:29
  3. Inherited Bowel Levitation - Reduced Without Any Effort - 3:22
  4. The Echo (Replacement) - 4:27
  5. The Putrefying Road in the Nineteenth Extremity (... Somewhere Inside the Bowels of Endlessness ...) - 2:40
  6. (Within) The Chamber of Whispering Eyes - 4:12
  7. And You'll Remain ... (In Pieces in Nothingness) - 3:12
  8. Erecshyrinol - 3:17
  9. The Planet That Once Used to Absorb Flesh in Order to Achieve Divinity and Immortality (Suffocated to the Flesh That It Desired ...) - 3:17
  10. The Cry - 3:42
  11. Raped Embalmed Beauty Sleep - 3:42

On the original pressing, some of the titles were misspelled.

Re-release bonus songs

The re-release bonus songs first appeared in 1991 on the demo The Four Instructive Tales… of Decomposition

  2. Introduction (Embalmed Beauty Sleep) - 4:51
  3. Two Independent Organisms → One Suppurating Deformity - 3:59
  4. And The Slimy Flying Creatures Reproduce In Your Brains - 2:58
  5. The Uncontrollable Regret of the Rotting Flesh * - 5:57

Music style and lyrics

The album is not considered catchy. Particularly characteristic is the extremely deep, guttural vocals of singer Boman, which can be heard on the album without any technical post-processing. Dan Marsicano of About.com described the singing as frog-like. Also noticeable for the songs are the usually extremely long song titles. The riffs have been described as muddled and the sound highly unconventional. Musical influences are bands like Voivod , Pestilence and Atheist . However, the style corresponds neither to the typical brutal nor the typical technical Death Metal of the time. Lyrically, Boman mixed horror and science fiction themes with his own imagination. In Rock Hard the music is also described as " jazzy- weird". Hawk of The Metal Observer describes the music as "sick perverse blast" with "wacky riffs" and describes the songs as a mixture of Carcass ' album Symphony of Sickness and Penetration Point by Nasty Savage . The songs are mostly held in the mid-tempo range, with occasional short, faster short parts. The complex riffs are reminiscent of groups like Watchtower and Mekong Delta . The deep vocals, on the other hand, are reminiscent of Broken Hope , Suffocation and Carcass' Bill Steer .

Reviews

According to Jeff Wagner, the band stood firmly in Finland's death metal tradition while standing out within it. In the rock-hard edition No. 304 the album is counted among the classics of Finnish death metal. In issue no. 309 the music is described as original and the album is described as “a really brutal crash disc”, although the level of play on the album remains consistently high. The album could easily stand up to modern death metal productions and the album should simply be known as a death metal fan. According to Carlos Ramirez of IGN Entertainment , the style of singing known as “ Pig Squealing ” is “a weak imitation of Boman”.

According to Hawk, Nespithe “is so extreme in almost everything that it hurts. Murderously brutal, mostly held in the mid-tempo range, interspersed with occasional short speed attacks and provided with a number of damn complex riffs, which make groups like WATCHTOWER or MEKONG DELTA look like mainstream bands. In addition, a gargle grunt, which makes even the Waldschrate from BROKEN HOPE and SUFFOCATION look old. "The album is" only enjoyable for the craziest death eaters ".

Marsicano wrote a retro recommendation, quoting Leon del Muerte, the guitarist of Murder Construct. According to Marsicano, there was no comparable publication in 1993. The album didn’t match the “relentless sounds” of Morbid Angel and Cannibal Corpse, nor the technical skills of Cynic and Atheist, but it took over from both elements and created something original when originality was not respected, which is also what the reactions to Cynic did Focus times showed. Nespithe still sounds fresh. According to Del Muerte, the singing and song structures took time to get used to. He contacted Boman and had a short correspondence with him, but got no answer when he asked about the tablature for When the Sun Drank the Weight of Water . In 2006 he saw Demilich live. Results , the debut album by del Muertes band Murder Construct, was influenced by Nespithe . Jeff Treppel of Decibel Magazine listed the album in The Lazarus Pit section for underrated albums that were supposed to be classics and described the music as "seriously insane." It was a mystery to him that this could come from the mind of one person and that several other people could agree that this was the right thing.

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Demilich Nespithe (1993) , accessed April 12, 2013.
  3. ^ Demilich - Nespithe , accessed April 12, 2013.
  4. ↑ Demilich - Download , accessed April 13, 2013.
  5. ↑ a b c Jeff Treppel: The Lazarus Pit: Demilich's Nespithe , February 3, 2012, accessed April 13, 2013.
  6. ↑ a b c Andreas Stappert: Demilich . Nespithe . In: Rock Hard , No. 309, February 2013, p. 80.
  7. ^ Demilich - Nespithe , accessed April 12, 2013.
  8. ↑ Demilich , accessed April 13, 2013.
  9. ^ Nespithe (LP) , accessed April 13, 2013.
  10. ^ Demilich - Discography , accessed April 13, 2013.
  11. ^ Nespithe (European version) , accessed April 13, 2013.
  12. ↑ a b c d Dan Marsicano: Demilich - Nespithe Review ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 13, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / heavymetal.about.com
  13. ^ A b c Eduardo Rivadavia: Demilich , accessed on April 12, 2013.
  14. ^ A b c Jeff Wagner: Mean Deviation: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal . Brooklyn, NY: Bazillion Points Books 2010, pp. 143f., Accessed April 13, 2013.
  15. ↑ a b c Carlos Ramirez: 10 Best Death Metal Singers , October 23, 2008, accessed April 13, 2013.
  16. ↑ a b c Julien: Demilich . Finnish Death Metal from the Past , accessed April 13, 2013.
  17. ↑ a b c d e Hawk: Demilich - Nespithe (7.5 / 10) - Finland - 1993/1996 , March 5, 2004, accessed on April 13, 2013.