Live Reviews : Disentomb (Brisbane) – 19/11/2010

Armed with charmingly politically (in)correct songs about necrophilia and murdering one’s family, Sydney based Daemon Foetal Harvest certainly aren’t about taking any prisoners, as their half an hour set exhibits a good amount of tempo changing carnage. With an impressively talented lead guitarist, the band manage to comfortably straddle the thin line between overt complexity and simplicity, as well as knowing how to pull the frenetic pace right back for more crushing grooves. While their fill-in drummer looks as unassuming as you could get, his skills behind the kit erase any thoughts of the dude having turned up to the wrong show, and he steers the group through a very solid run through of songs taken from their up-coming album Where It Dwells.

As the aural equivalent of being locked inside a washing machine full of steel, Disentomb are completely unrelenting from the word go, and while light and shade definitely is not the band’s forte, it’s hardly the point as the impressive number of patrons on hand are sucked into a vortex of blast beats and bowel loosening growls. Frustratingly the mix is pretty average, with the nuances being lost as the pace is turned up, but as Henri Sison’s spine-splitting drums lock in with Jake Wilkes and Thomas Joice’s guitar and bass work, plus with frontman Jordan James’ inhumanly guttural vocals on top, the sheer brutality of the young four-piece erases any sound issues and almost strips the paint from the cramped venue’s walls.

Running through their debut record Sunken Chambers of Nephilim, the band keep their collective foot on the accelerator for a strong majority of the set, but the metronome shattering pace of tunes like “Cystic Secretion” and “Subterranean Burial” are cleverly punctuated by dominating half time slams. Bringing the mayhem to a close with the monstrous finisher “Impaled Upon the Throne”, the lengthy tune features a hugely weaving groove outro lead by Sison’s ever changing drum patterns.

Disentomb, to simply put it, are the newest face of Australian Brutal Death Metal and and if tonight’s unrelenting performance is anything to go by, expect BIG things from this band in the not too distant future.