As I said before, there are many metal bands named Necrotomy. In my previous review, I took a look at the Hungarian Necrotomy. They played good music, but the experience was utterly ruined by the horrible production. The American Necrotomy has a different problem. I can hear the music just fine, but the music itself is below average.
The drums mainly stick to playing simple blast beats and mid-paced rhythms. To me, they sound like a less talented Dave Lombardo. Their performance is nothing special, but it's not terrible either. I appreciate how prominent the cymbals are, though. The guitars are nothing special either. It's just a simple grinding affair. They frequently switch between mid-paced riffs and extremely fast shredding riffs, but the riffs themselves are nothing new. It's all been done before. Hell, these riffs were old even by the standards of 1993. However, they do change things up by playing some sort of poppy surf punk near the end of “Disgust & Dismemberment”. I had no idea what they were thinking when they included that, but it sounds really bad.
Worst of all are the vocals. They mainly consist of a growl that has been pitch-shifted to the level where they sound like Last Days of Humanity. I'm sure they did this in order to sound evil and menacing and whatnot, but instead it just makes him look lazy. Also, his performance is incredibly out of place, especially during the slow, non-metal parts on songs like “Inside Living Flesh”. They also perform a few high-pitched screams that I suppose were meant to sound like Carcass, but they don't sound very good. They also perform some crossover thrash shouts on “Mass Suicide”. Didn't they know that throwing every vocal style they can find into a blender will not automatically make a killer vocal smoothie?
Overall, the American Necrotomy might have had good production, but their instrumental performance was subpar and their vocal performance was unbearable.
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