Humanity/Depravity.
My friends this is my second outing with these inglorious ruffians, Ingested, and welcome to their world of the deranged and the dubious. Admittedly I quite liked 2020 release, and now I get to travel back in time when they were younger but still as grisly and gruesome. If you have a weak constitution you may want to admire this from a distance, 2m ok for you?
The unhinged world of the serial killer is on show here, in explicit and gory detail. They aren’t shy these fellas, grabbing the bull by the horns to bring you murder and mayhem in full Technicolor, X-rated and eviscerated. Once again my favourite drummer is in action, and solidly fortified by bass, guitars and guttural murmurings from Jason Evans.
We are amidst a crime scene, as the news breaks, alongside demented gurglings, we savour the ‘Butchered & Devoured’ and commiserate the ‘Pre-Released Foetal Mush’ – yep, you read that right. Ingested may have an affinity for the obscene, but you know what, this is real life. We live cheek by jowl with these dangerous and savage minds, we then recoil in horror when they are found living next door to us.
The agonies and capabilities of the human body are addressed in unimaginable gore, vivid, graphic and extreme. The finale ‘Copremesis’ lives up to its name, an horrific journey accompanied by barely comprehensible warblings, try as I might there is beauty in the vulgarity, an abjectly profane look at life, only the brave can muster this sort of crudeness.
Dive into the cesspool ladies and gents the water’s great, malodorous with a high heaven hum. An astonishingly good debut, remastered and remixed to celebrate the 15th anniversary of our Manchester cousins, a history lesson that will revolt and raze 2021 before it has even started.
I extend a Merry fetid Christmas to one and all.
Azra Pathan
Ingested – Stinking Cesspool Of Liquefied Human Remnants out January 15th via Unique Leader Records.